Links to the latest news and research from the International Institute for Sustainable Development.
Ponerse en marcha: encontrando una ruta para el transporte en el MDL (PDF - 4 mb)
A draft Spanish version of Getting on Track: Finding a Path for Transportation in the CDM (PDF - 5 mb) is now online. The publication delves into the key questions of the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol within the context of the transportation sector of Chile. As a leading source of greenhouse gas emissions, the transportation sector could play a central role in the CDM and in addressing climate change.
Global Environmental Governance: A Reform Agenda (PDF - 978 kb)
Since environmental issues entered the international agenda in the early 1970s, global environmental politics and policies have been developing rapidly. The environmental governance system we have today reflects both the successes and failures of this development. It has become increasingly clear that the GEG system, as we know it, has outgrown its original design and intent. This book identifies a number of practical steps that can foster more efficient and effective global environmental governance.
IISD News (PDF - 841 kb)
The new issue of IISD News, our institutional newsletter, is now online in a new design. To receive a free electronic subscription in plain text or as a PDF file, please click here.
Environment and Trade: A Handbook - Second Edition
This handbook, originally published in 2001, has been completely updated for 2005, with new sections on the Doha agenda and regional trade and investment agreements, as well as analysis of new WTO panel rulings. The handbook is a joint publication of IISD and UNEP.
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IISD Linkages coverage of major environment and development negotiations and conferences.
Forestry: A Sectoral Response to Climate Change
November 21-23, 2006 | Steyning, England
Extra-ordinary Session of the African Ministerial Council on Science and Technology
November 20-24, 2006 | Cairo, Egypt
Twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention and second meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol
November 6-17, 2006 | United Nations Office at Nairobi, Gigiri, Kenya
A Special Report on Selected Side Events at the Second Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP 2) and Twelfth Conference of the Parties (COP 12) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
November 6-17, 2006 | Nairobi, Kenya
Development and Adaptation Days at COP12
November 11-12, 2006 | Nairobi, Kenya
Forty-first Session of the International Tropical Timber Council (ITTC) and Associated Sessions of the Committees
November 6-11, 2006 | Yokohama, Japan
18th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (MOP-18)
October 30 - November 3, 2006 | New Delhi, India
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