International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

Overview

• Our vision Better living for all—sustainably.
• Our mission To champion innovation, enabling societies to live sustainably.
• Our role IISD promotes the transition toward a sustainable future; we seek to demonstrate how human ingenuity can be applied to improve the well-being of the environment, economy and society.
• Our tools are policy research, information exchange, analysis and advocacy.
• Our products are action recommendations based on careful analysis, knowledge networks to build the capacity of civil society and other organizations in both South and North, and timely reporting of international negotiations critical to the sustainability of the planet.
• Our audiences: are government, business and civil society.
• Our style: is to increase our influence by working collaboratively with other institutions –building long term strategic alliances, while retaining the institutional agility necessary to confront the challenges of sustainable development.

Resources

IISD Tools

• Building REDD Capacity in Developing Countries
• CRiSTAL Forests
• CRiSTAL Project Management Tool
• CRiSTAL VS
• Climate Change Mitigation Through Land-Use Measures in the Agriculture and Forestry Sectors
• Community-based Risk Screening Tool - Adaptation & Livelihoods (CRiSTAL)
• Environmental fiscal reform (EFR)
• General Equilibrium Emissions Model (GEEM)
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions Impacts of Liberalizing Trade in Environmental Goods
• IISD Climate Change and Agriculture Research
• IISD NAMA Tools
• Opportunities and Domestic Barriers to Clean Energy Investment in Chile
• The Lessons of Practice: Domestic Policy Reform as a Way to Address Climate Change

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IISD Programs

• Angola-Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in the Congo Basin
• Bangladesh-NAMA Concepts
• Burundi-Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in the Congo Basin
• Cameroon-Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in the Congo Basin
• Central African Republic-Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in the Congo Basin
• Clean Energy Investment and Climate Change
• Clean Energy Investment in Developing Countries: Wind Power in Egypt
• Democratic Republic of Congo-Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in the Congo Basin
• Indonesia-IISD NAMA Support
• Papua New Guinea-Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR)
• Republic of Congo-Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in the Congo Basin
• Rwanda-Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in the Congo Basin
• Trinidad and Tobago-Building Capacity for Innovative Policy NAMAs
• Vietnam-IISD NAMA Support

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