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Indonesia spent IDR164.7 trillion (US$18.1 billion) subsidizing fuel products in 2011, of which IDR76.5...
This brochure summarizes the watershed-based approach to ecohealth taken by the International Institute for Sustainable Development, in partnership with the Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and...
Sustainable development at its heart is an investment problem—a challenge to replace unsustainable infrastructure, productive technologies, and consumer goods with more sustainable stock. Nowhere is this more...
WINNIPEG—April 30, 2012—Leading international experts, scientists and decision-makers on water, energy and food security are meeting this week to examine how large river basins influence global water, energy and food security, at a...
A report from the seminar Making Investment Work for Africa, organized by the Pan African Parliament in collaboration with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the Institute for Poverty, Land and...
In academic literature and research modelling food-market prices, expanding biofuel production is consistently attributed some role in the rising cost of food commodities. The European Union and United States biofuel markets’...
Loss of biodiversity, a key theme of ESPA research. Rubber tapping near the Xishuangbanna garden in China. In these plantations, sub-tropical rain forest is removed to create space for monocultures of rubber. In addition to the direct loss of biodiversity, this results in loss of soil fertility and, in some areas, enhanced soil erosion that affects people in neighbouring countries along the Mekong river.