Climate Change Mitigation
By implementing progressive low-emission development strategies that promote integrated clean energy solutions and broader sustainable development objectives, we can move towards climate change mitigation which requires a shift to low-carbon development.
Our experts help policy-makers identify and prioritize options for reducing emissions, such as through developing clean and renewable energy systems. We also support developing countries in identifying and accessing financing for low-carbon development. We do this by developing roadmaps for reform, engaging proactively with policy-makers and the stakeholders they engage with, providing quantitative and qualitative analysis of policy options for energy and carbon mitigation, and identifying means of implementation.
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Reflections of Rio+20: Being there and looking back while seeing a way forward
The author suggests that, despite the "myopic" focus on its policy failures, Rio+20 was the most participatory conference in the history of the...
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Integrating Mitigation and Adaptation in the Agriculture Sector
There are synergies and trade-offs between mitigation and adaptation in agricultural production systems.As part of IISD's Food Security and Climate...
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Encouraging a Triple Dividend in Agriculture: Increased food security, improved adaptive capacity and reduced emissions
Actions in the agriculture sector have the potential to produce a triple win for developing countries by increasing food security, enhancing...
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Addressing Financing for Agriculture: Ensuring a triple dividend for smallholders
The provision of adequate and effective financing remains a critical issue in achieving a triple dividend in agriculture. Financing needs are...
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Rio+20 Side-Event: Overcoming the barriers to subsidy reform for a greener economy
RIO DE JANEIRO - 19 June 2012 - Each year, enormous sums are spent on subsidies that undermine sustainable development.Globally, over US$ 2 billion...
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Life after Rio: A commentary by Mark Halle, IISD
Mark Halle, International Institute for Sustainable Development executive director IISD-Europe, has returned from Rio de Janeiro and declared the...
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Addressing Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Through Insurance for Overseas Investments: The example of the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation
The paper aims to illustrate the connections between government policy, investment and climate change; it looks at the role and activities of the...
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Peering over the Ledge and Stepping Back (Again): The Bonn Climate Change Conference May 2012
While the COP 17 outcomes did provide some clarity as to what Parties were striving to develop in response to climate change.It was (as it always...
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Agriculture and Climate Change: Post-Durban issues for negotiators
The inclusion of text on agriculture in the Outcome of the Work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention ...
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Building REDD+ Policy Capacity for Developing Country Negotiators and Land Managers Phase III: Lessons learned
Two critical determinants of REDD+ success moving forward are: (1) developing and implementing REDD+ safeguard information systems (SIS) and (2)...
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