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An award-winning independent think tank for sustainable solutions. Focused on climate, nature & economies.

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🌊 🎉 Today marks the entry into force of the #HighSeasTreaty!

In addition to protecting the #Ocean, the treaty represents a huge win for multilateralism: Countries worked quickly to ratify the treaty, demonstrating their desire for global cooperation on ocean #conservation.
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January 17, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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💻 Who benefits from the digital economy?

In our 🆕 Trade & Sustainability Review, Kitrhona Cerri & Maria Mexi show how industrial policy—through data governance, labour protections & value capture—can ensure #Digitalization delivers inclusive growth.

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January 15, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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Protected areas in #Belize are feeling the impacts of #ClimateChange, but how can ecosystems & communities adapt?

Our new comics explore how protected area managers support #ClimateAdaptation through #NatureBasedSolutions.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4jGN4fN

#CAPAInitiative
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January 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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📣 How did #energy policies shift in 2025? Drawing on our work in 5️⃣ countries, here are some of our 2025 headlines for Canada, India, Indonesia, South Africa, and the UK:
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January 14, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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#LNG generates emissions and accelerates #ClimateChange across its entire value chain from extraction to combustion. How could this impact Canadians?

⬆️ extreme weather risks
🏡 infrastructure damage
💰 Increases energy costs

Learn more: https://bit.ly/49iNs0G

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A graphic depicting each stage in the LNG export process. A line starting from a metal tower labeled "gas field" leads to a yellow square labeled "impurities extraction," followed by an industrial plant labeled "liquefaction." Beside the plant, there are two large tanks labeled "transfer to tank" with an arrow labelled "loading" pointing to a ship. An arrow labeled "LNG transport" points from this ship to a second ship. Another arrow labeled "unloading" points from the second ship to another set of tanks labeled "transfer to tank." Beside these tanks is an industrial structure labeled "regasification" with an arrow above pointing to the edge of the graphic that reads "transport network."
January 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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What does #IndustrialPolicy look like in a services-driven economy?

In @iisd.org's latest #Trade & #Sustainability Review, Pierre Sauvé highlights how smart policy-making can create conditions for services to flourish & drive economy-wide growth.

🔗: www.iisd.org/articles/pol...
January 13, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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Want to shape the UN #ClimateChange negotiations without traveling to the big COPs? 🌍

We’ve updated our tool tracking the open opportunities for NGOs, businesses, researchers, and governments to send reports or advice to the UNFCCC with what emerged from #COP30: https://bit.ly/49hXNdf
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January 12, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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Upcoming 📣

In early February, delegates to #IPBES12 are expected to deliver a new methodological assessment focused on the impacts and dependencies of #business on #biodiversity

What to expect ➡️ enb.iisd.org/intergovernm...

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12th Session of the IPBES Plenary and Stakeholder Day
Delegates to IPBES-12 are expected to deliver a new methodological assessment focused on the impacts and dependencies of business on biodiversity.
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January 12, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Expanding clean energy—not new pipelines—is Canada's best answer to U.S. plans to refine and sell Venezuelan crude oil.

This is a moment for Canada to get off the oil market roller-coaster & double down on renewables, IISD’s Philip Gass explains 👇 www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/07/n...
The Venezuela crisis has prompted Canada to double down on oil. Is that the right move?
Any global crisis will have the fossil fuel industry and its allies pushing more oil and gas, but nothing about the US's takeover of Venezuela changes the long term forecast for oil demand or the clim...
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January 8, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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📚 The latest #Trade & #Sustainability Review looks beyond manufacturing to examine how #IndustrialPolicy is shaping service-led economies, digitalization, agriculture, least-developed countries & policy-making processes.

🔗 Read it here: www.iisd.org/articles/dee...
January 7, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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📣What Energy Stories Shaped 2025? ⚡

From the landmark opinion by the International Court of Justice to G20 & G7 leaders shifting away from fossil fuel subsidy reform commitments. Here are some of the energy trends and developments from the past year: 🧵1/6
January 6, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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🔎What were the headline trends in oil & gas exploration in 2025?
➡️Egypt + Brazil licensed new fields with the largest estimated reserves.
➡️U.S. + China spent the most on new exploration.
➡️Exploration rose since 2020, but is below its 2000s peak.

🆕 #CarbonMinefields: www.iisd.org/publications...
December 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Half of India’s electricity capacity in 2025 came from non‑fossil sources.

Yet fossil fuels receive 5X more public 💰 than clean energy, while subsidies
⚠️strain public finances,
⚠️crowd out investment in cleaner technologies.

https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/mapping-india-energy-policy-2025
December 31, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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From electric vehicles to energy security, our experts shared insights across a broad range of topics this year.

As 2025 draws to a close, we’re revisiting our most popular articles and publications.

Articles: https://bit.ly/4sBoy47

Publications: https://bit.ly/4sr2YiD
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December 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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🌊 When funding constraints delayed four key waterway restoration projects in #CapeTown, #SouthAfrica, the city needed clear evidence to move forward.

Learn how our NBI Centre supported the city to make the business case for #NatureBasedInfrastructure: https://bit.ly/4qzBtlh
December 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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"For low-lying nations, [sea level rise] is not an abstract projection but an encroaching physical reality" write two lawyers who helped Tuvalu present at the ICJ’s climate hearings.

Read more about how scientific urgency & legal accountability are linked: https://bit.ly/4aB41pL
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December 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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⭐ What stood out in international #Tax policy this year?

With 2025 now drawing to a close, let's look back at the key moments in #TaxPolicy that moved the #sustainable agenda forward ⬇️

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2025 in International Tax: The year in review. From the first substantive negotiations on a UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation to countries’ commitments to boost domestic revenue at the once-a-decade FfD4 conference, here’s a look at the milestones and events that shaped international tax this year.
December 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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#Deforestation is one of the most urgent global environmental challenges.

Our new report looks at the role of Voluntary #Sustainability Standards, alongside private sector actors, in tackling deforestation across forest-risk commodity value chains.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4p87K1A
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December 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Looking for extra fiscal space in 2026? An inventory of fossil fuel subsidies can help!

5-steps to get started!
1️⃣Whole of gov't approach
2️⃣Comprehensive scope & definition
3️⃣Appropriate method to measure subsidies
4️⃣Environmental & socio-economic lens
5️⃣Regular updates

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December 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Two decades ago, we launched the Global Subsidies Initiative to support governments in reforming subsidies that undermine sustainable development.

We spoke with our experts, peers, and government representatives to take stock of progress and lessons learned through a series of articles. 1/4
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December 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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💡The ICTSD archive is now available on our website. Explore the publication repository, #Bridges series & more resources linking economic, environmental & social priorities to #GlobalTrade.

🔗 https://bit.ly/48KvvrD
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December 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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As governments confront rising misinformation, constrained budgets, & intensifying climate risks, the need for evidence-based policy has never been greater.

Patricia Fuller outlines the opportunities and challenges that will shape #SustDev in 2026: https://bit.ly/4jmgsrT
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December 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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🧵 Informed by insights from 20+ global experts, we launched guidance to help policy-makers design effective Border Carbon Adjustments #BCAs.

Check out 6️⃣ of our recommendations 👇

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December 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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📜 From war time security measures to climate policy, Investor-state dispute settlement (#ISDS) has been hitting the headlines for its ability to undermine public-interest policy making.

Now’s a good time to learn more about this system and why it needs urgent reform. ⬇️

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December 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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📢 Our latest #Trade & #Sustainability Review is out!

Explore often overlooked aspects of #IndustrialPolicy—from services, agriculture & digitalization to least developed country challenges & policy-making processes.

📖 https://bit.ly/4iOGinP

🚨 FR/ES coming soon!
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December 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM