IISD In The News
IISD's research, experts and publications are regularly featured by press outlets and on multimedia platforms around the world.
The list below is a selection of recent mentions. Click Here for other media-related content.
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What Canada Needs to Do Now (But Isn’t) to Prevent the Worst Impacts of Climate Change
DeSmog Canada - September 21, 2017 “The benefits are very high compared to the costs,” said Hank Venema, planning director at the Winnipeg-based Prairie Climate Centre. “But it’s different than the way that governments have traditionally viewed these kinds of expenditures: they’ve looked upon it as just capital expense and not risk reduction and rural economic development and habitat benefit.”
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Canada deploys 'multi-pronged' lobbying to counter Trump's EPA cuts
National Observer - September 21, 2017 "North of the border, Amin Asadollahi, co-chair of the Green Budget Coalition and North American lead for climate mitigation at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, said ENERGY STAR has helped businesses and Canadians reduce their energy costs and carbon pollution."
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Cities And The SDGs: An Interdependent Partnership
Huffington Post - September 20, 2017 "We need to make the SDGs more central to city planning and cities more central to the achievement of the SDGs."
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Opinion: The SDGs are good enough and it's time to stop analyzing and start acting
Devex - September 20, 2017 "The SDGs may represent our last chance to transition to a world characterized by justice, opportunity, peace, and stability. We must do everything possible not to miss this chance. That means accepting that the stage settings are good enough, and getting on with the play. Whether or not it turns out to be a tragedy is up to us."
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What will Canada’s energy future look like?
Ottawa Citizen - September 17, 2017 "Amin Asadollahi is the North American lead on climate change mitigation at the International Institute for Sustainable Development. He doesn’t see an overnight elimination of hydrocarbons, but envisions the adoption of sustainable energy sources as an inexorable movement toward greater efficiency as well as an environmental imperative."
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Together, Canada, China and the EU Can Fill Trump's Climate Leadership Void
AlterNet - September 16, 2017 "Canada, the European Union and China are sending a powerful signal that they are willing to fill the leadership void created by the Trump Administration backing out of the Paris agreement. This weekend’s summit in Montreal offers the chance for governments to raise their collective efforts and demonstrate how they are leading by example."
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Time for results on Lake Winnipeg
Winnipeg Free Press - September 12, 2017 "Our politicians must seize this opportunity and invest it wisely in the best interests of Lake Winnipeg. Let’s not find ourselves reading the same disappointing evaluation in another five years, with plenty of money spent, but no real improvements."
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IISD-ELA scientist to study effects of oil spills in freshwater ecosystems
Kenora Daily Miner and News - September 11, 2017 "Vince Palace is the head research coordinator for the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), which operates the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) southeast of Kenora, led a community information night at Knox United Church on Thursday, Sept. 7 about the research the facility will be conducting on how spills affect freshwater ecosystems."
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Does The Data Security Risk Of A Billion Indians Handing Over Biometric Information Outweigh The Benefits?
Newsweek - September 03, 2017 "But some say Nilekani grossly overestimates the savings. “It’s a lie—most of the de-duplication that the government claims has been dealt with without the use of Aadhaar,” says agricultural economist R. Ramakumar from Mumbai’s Tata Institute of Social Sciences. List-based de-duplication—getting officials to “sit with the local data to identify who came from the same address”—was reported to be...
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Physical activity in Winnipeg falls below national average
CTV Winnipeg - August 24, 2017 "As Winnipeggers gear up for back to school and fall recreational programs data released Wednesday from Peg shows physical activity in Winnipeg is lower than the majority of Canada. Data released by Statistics Canada shows that in 2014 52.4 per cent of Winnipeggers were only ‘sometimes’ or ‘often’ physically active during leisure time down from the 54.3 per cent five years earlier."
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