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How Reforming Fossil Fuel Subsidies Can Go Wrong: A lesson from Ecuador
There must be a foundation of trust, along with a clear plan to protect vulnerable segments of the population and, ideally, to phase in the reforms gradually. Read More -
Report
Energy Transition in Support of the Low-Carbon Development Initiative in Indonesia: Transport sector
Implementing an effective pricing mechanism is necessary for Indonesia to complete its landmark fuel subsidy reforms and prevent backsliding into expensive subsidy policies. The current pricing regime aims to deliver a public service but inadvertently contributes major social costs: air pollution and associated illness, greenhouse gas emissions and traffic congestion. Read More -
Report
The State of Sustainable Markets 2019: Statistics and emerging trends
This joint publication by ITC, IISD and FiBL provides comprehensive data on the sustainability standards being used for the production of various commodities, including banana, cocoa, coffee, cotton, oil palm, soybean, sugarcane, tea and forestry products. Read More -
Blog
Indonesians Are Demanding Climate Action — How can the government answer their calls?
Thousands of people, youth especially, are calling for Indonesia and countries around the world to live up to their commitments on climate change. Read More -
Best Practices
IISD Best Practices Series: Compensation Under Investment Treaties (Advance Draft)
This advance draft of the latest IISD Best Practices Series paper focuses specifically on the awards seen in various investment treaty arbitration cases, how they are determined and what can be learned going forward. Please note that this paper will be updated following comments. Read More -
Report
New Tech, New Deal: Technology Impacts Review
This review surveys new mining technologies and their impacts, in particular on labour. It asks how they will affect the relationship between mining companies and their host communities and host countries. Read More -
Newsletter
Investment Treaty News (ITN), Volume 10, Issue 4, October 2019
Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD’s flagship journal on international investment law and policy. This special edition of ITN is devoted to international investment governance. Read More -
Blog
Climate Change Hits Vulnerable Communities First and Hardest
Will the 193 United Nations member states who pledged to “leave no one behind” live up to their promise? Read More -
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Time to ACCTS? Five countries announce new initiative on trade and climate change
Costa Rica, Fiji, Iceland, New Zealand and Norway launched an initiative that firmly melds trade and climate change together. Read More -
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Time to Trade Collective Inertia for Collective Action
To get where we need to on climate action, we need to do a lot of things. Here’s what we don’t need to do. Read More