Past Events
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June 18, 2018
Online Discussion: Financing infrastructure development
Join Oshani Perera, Director of the Procurement and Infrastructure Program, and Liesbeth Casier, Procurement Specialist for IISD’s Economic Law and Policy Program, for Apolitical’s online discussion June 18 on financing infrastructure development.
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June 18-21, 2018
IISD at Adaptation Futures 2018
Members of the IISD Resilience program, which hosts the NAP Global Network Secretariat, will join over 1,000 scientists, practitioners, business leaders and policy-makers from around the world in Cape Town, South Africa, for Adaptation Futures 2018 to discuss climate change adaptation.
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June 13, 2018
Developing a Progressive Agenda for Reform of International Investment Law: Canadian Perspectives – Expert Meeting
IISD will convene an interactive expert meeting to assess and articulate Canadian perspectives—including government, civil society and academia—on a progressive agenda on investment.
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June 1-30, 2018
Help Secure the Future of Fresh Water this June with the Great Canadian Giving Challenge
The future of our fresh water depends on the crucial and unique science at IISD Experimental Lakes Area. This June, your support can help nuture those scientists of the future.
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May 24, 2018
Dialogue on a Just and Managed Energy Transition in Canada
The session will focus on: recognizing that a just and managed energy sector transition in Canada is not just about coal, and increasing understanding of the value in having an ongoing conversation about an oil and gas transition pathway in Canada with those who will be affected by this transition.
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May 23, 2018
Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Public Finance and Leveraging Investment for Sustainable Energy via SWAPs
Fossil fuel subsidies increase energy consumption and act as a barrier to clean energy technologies. As part of the Nordic Clean Energy Week, this event will discuss the potential for reform of fossil fuel subsidies and reallocation of a proportion of the savings to fund the transition to clean energy
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May 4, 2018
Webinar | Tools for Municipal Adaptation Action
Watch a recording of this webinar on Tools for Municipal Adaptation Action hosted by the Prairies Regional Adaptation Collaborative (PRAC)
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April 30 - May 1, 2018
Community Indicator Systems Training Workshop
IISD is convening a training workshop to build the capacity of communities to develop and use Community Indicator Systems to track progress on local priority issues in the context of the global Sustainable Development Goals.
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April 23, 2018
Stakeholder Session on UNCITRAL ISDS Reform Process
The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) is currently engaged in a process to consider reform of investor-state arbitration (also known as investor-state dispute settlement or ISDS). ISDS is also one of the controversial issues being addressed in the NAFTA renegotiations, and driving the EU-led initiative to create a multilateral court for investment claims.Alongside the
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April 23-27, 2018
Capacity-Building Workshops on the Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool (SAVi) in Senegal
IISD is hosting a series of capacity-building workshops on the use of SAVi and the financing of sustainable infrastructure from April 23 to 27, 2018.
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