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    Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) Assessment of the N'Diaye Wind Farm in Senegal

    Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) Assessment of the N'Diaye Wind Farm in Senegal

    This SAVi analysis on the N'Diaye wind farm project in Senegal demonstrates that, compared to other energy technologies (coal and high-fuel oils), the wind project brings the most benefits to the Senegalese economy and environment.  Read More
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    What is the Business Case for Private Investment in the NAP Process?

    What is the Business Case for Private Investment in the NAP Process?

    Businesses around the world—big and small, from large-scale banks to smallholder farmers—invest in climate change adaptation every day.

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    Overfishing Calls for Concrete Actions

    Overfishing Calls for Concrete Actions

    Our oceans and fish stocks—and the populations that depend on them—all suffer from the consequences of overfishing. We share a glimpse of the current WTO push to end harmful fisheries subsidies by 2020. Read More
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    One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Fossil fuel subsidies and reform on the rise

    One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Fossil fuel subsidies and reform on the rise

    Between 2015 and 2018, 50 countries undertook some level of fossil fuel subsidy reform. That doesn't mean consumer subsidies are decreasing, however. Read More
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    What We Can Measure, We Can Manage: Methodology for global fossil fuel subsidy reporting launched

    What We Can Measure, We Can Manage: Methodology for global fossil fuel subsidy reporting launched

    A new report provides the first internationally agreed upon methodology to help countries increase transparency on fossil fuel subsidies. Read More
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    How Can Technology in Mining Protect the Environment?

    How Can Technology in Mining Protect the Environment?

    Rapid advances in technology innovation, including automation, digitization and electrification, are fundamentally changing how the mining sector operates. Read More
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    Measuring Fossil Fuel Subsidies in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals

    Measuring Fossil Fuel Subsidies in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals

    This report provides methodological guidance for measuring fossil fuel subsidies in the context of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 12.c.1: “Amount of fossil fuel subsidies per unit of GDP (production and consumption)”. Read More
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    IGF Mining Policy Framework Assessment: Ecuador

    IGF Mining Policy Framework Assessment: Ecuador

    This report presents a Mining Policy Framework (MPF) Assessment for Ecuador, with a view to helping the government target its efforts in implementing its MPF. Read More
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    Facilitating Peer Learning with Adaptation Policy-Makers

    Facilitating Peer Learning with Adaptation Policy-Makers

    This guide is for people that want to hold inclusive, participatory events in which different stakeholders come together to collectively generate ideas and identify actions they will take to make progress toward adaptation.  Read More
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    Commodity Trading: Understanding the tax-related challenges for home and host countries

    Commodity Trading: Understanding the tax-related challenges for home and host countries

    Our report explores the role of metal trading companies and the potential tax risks their activity creates, as well as basic facts about the mineral and metal markets. Read More

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The IISD Library includes reports, issue briefs, books, working papers and other materials capturing much of IISD's institutional and research history.

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