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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National Climate Framework At Centre of Federal-Provincial Meeting in Vancouver, March 3rd
DeSmog Canada - February 05, 2016 “If there ever was a time this could work it would be now,” Jennifer Allan, PhD candidate and researcher with International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), said. “Canadians are mobilized and there’s more momentum for change than there’s been in the recent past, if ever.”
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TPP threatens to worsen inequality
The Hill Times - February 02, 2016 "The release of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) last fall has unleashed a heated debate over its costs and benefits—or, to put it more crudely, its winners and losers. But that debate tends to focus narrowly on particular sectors of the economy—the auto industry and farmers, for instance, in Canada. As such it misses an appreciation of the broader impact of the 12-nation agreement...
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IISD-ELA's work on climate change
Thunder Bay Newswatch - January 31, 2016 Sheldon Rogers visits IISD Experimental Lakes Area to learn more about what impact we have discovered climate change is having on our lakes.(Video begins at 2:29).
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Adaptation Should Be A Priority For Canada's Environment Ministers
Huffington Post Canada - January 27, 2016 "With oil prices currently in free fall, the need for a national strategy to end our dependency on fossil fuels is as pressing as ever. But with average global temperatures already having risen almost 1°C above preindustrial levels, there is also a pressing need for Canada's leaders to make climate change adaptation a priority domestically and in its support for developing countries." says IISD...
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Canada Post-COP21
CBC Ottawa Morning - January 25, 2016 Scott Vaughan speaks to Robyn Bresnahan about Canada's role in the post-2015 world.
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Cheap Oil Seen by EU as Good Time to Cut Fossil-Fuel Subsidies
Bloomberg - January 22, 2016 Scrapping subsidies for fossil fuels in 20 nations would cut national carbon-dioxide emissions by an average of 11 percent within five years, according to a study last year by the International Institute for Sustainable Development in Winnipeg, Canada, and the Nordic Council of Ministers in Copenhagen.
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Made in Manitoba environmental solutions
Winnipeg Free Press - January 19, 2016 "Innovative solutions developed here in Manitoba to collectively deal with our flooding and nutrient- and carbon-reduction issues that also create economic growth and jobs, will help us and the global community" says Richard Grosshans, IISD Senior Research Scientist.
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Winnipeg's smoking rate the lowest it has been in 10 years, report says
CBC Manitoba - January 18, 2016 "Winnipeg's smoking rate is the lowest it has been in 10 years, and it's below the national average, a report released ahead of National Smoking Week says. Peg, a community indicator system that tracks the city's well-being, looked at Winnipeg's data from the 2014 Canadian Community Health Survey in a report released Thursday."
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Less mercury in the air shows policy changes work says University of Alberta research
Edmonton Sun - January 13, 2016 "A drop of mercury emissions proves regional policy changes are enough to improve global environmental conditions, says University of Alberta research ... Data provided by the U of A's St. Louis included data that was collected between 2005-13 at the Experimental Lakes Area in Northwestern Ontario. The study was published in the Proceedings of the...
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Hooray for the Paris climate agreement! Now what?
CNN - December 14, 2015 "Laura Merrill, a senior researcher who worked on the report, told me global emissions likely would drop at least 10% if all fossil fuels subsides were cut. "I think it is the elephant in the boardroom, really," she said. "It's about $500 billion (in subsidies) downstream to consumers and about $100 billion (in...
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