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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Development: Making every drop of water count
Dawn - January 01, 2017 Jo-Ellen Parry, in an opinion piece for Pakistan's Dawn newspaper, explains why better management of that country's water resources is becoming imperative.
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IISD Experimental Lakes Area: The world's living laboratory
The Hub Magazine - January 01, 2017 Sumeep Bath explains why IISD Experimental Lakes Area is such a special place in the Winnipeg Airport's The Hub magazine.
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Canada’s climate leadership sets the course toward a more resilient and cleaner economy
The Hill Times - December 21, 2016 "We must peak and bend global emissions as quickly as possible. To this end, we were pleased to see the Canadian government, following the first ministers’ meeting last week, putting forward a comprehensive plan to tackling Canada’s growing greenhouse gas emissions, The Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change."
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US fossil fuel subsidies a brake on sustainable transport
China Dialogue - December 16, 2016 “The US has lower energy taxes than many developing countries from Ethiopia to Turkey,” said Ivetta Gerasimchuk, an energy expert at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in Geneva.
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The future of trade: is the world open for business?
Financier Worldwide - December 14, 2016 "According to Aaron Cosbey, a senior associate at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), there is normally a less-than-adequate job done to cushion the blow of adjustment from trade liberalisation."
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Muddling the climate issue: Ontario’s auditor general misses the mark
The Toronto Star - December 13, 2016 "Bonnie Lysyk’s report on climate change includes factual flaws and unbalanced analysis that paint an inaccurate picture of Ontario’s new climate policies."
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Opinion: Canadian foreign aid an antidote for extremist nationalism
National Observer - December 08, 2016 "[A]t this moment of uncertainty for international cooperation, it is a critical time for Canada to continue championing international climate action as part of a much-needed antidote to toxic nationalism and the climate change denial that so often goes with it."
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Why Canada’s resource wealth should fuel the new economy
The Globe and Mail - December 07, 2016 "We believe a greater portion of resource revenues needs to be re-invested in creating the new economy Canada will need going forward. There are several ways we could do this, all of them well-tested."
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Justin Trudeau's pipeline challenge truly begins
CBC The House - December 03, 2016 "We need now to look at how do we take the revenues from those pipelines, the rent that Canada can get from those pipelines, and invest them in new, higher quality, higher growth jobs in order to push up those human capital investments," Vaughan, a former commissioner of the environment and sustainable development, said."
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Canada's stagnant, slipping national wealth overly reliant on oil and gas: study
CBC News - December 02, 2016 "A comprehensive measure of Canada's national wealth shows it has been stagnant for decades and is too heavily dependent on housing and oil and gas, says a groundbreaking national report by the International Institute for Sustainable Development."
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