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🌍 Preparing for a Global Plastics Treaty As the international community works toward ambitious plastics policies, it's crucial to address how these measures may impact global trade and cooperation 🌐🤝 ➡️ Discover six key principles we’ve identified to help craft effective plastic pollution policies that allow trading partners to prepare, adapt, and thrive in a new global policy environment. Together, we can create #TradeSolutionsForPlasticPollution. 🔗 Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/gvc8VqkS  Alice Tipping | Ieva Baršauskaitė  #INC #PlasticsTreaty #Sustainability #GlobalTrade

📢 The new edition of IISD Insights is out now 📰 In this newsletter you'll find: 💵 Latest data on public financial support for fossil fuels 🛢️ Which country led oil and gas exploration in 2024 🍊 What COP29 Azerbaijan means for food systems and land use 💼 Job opportunities at IISD Want to receive this right to your inbox? Subscribe here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eKETWbB #climatenews #environment #hiring

📅 On 15 November, Costa Rica, Iceland, New Zealand, and Switzerland signed the Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability (#ACCTS) - a landmark treaty to advance environmental goals through legally binding trade commitments.  While ACCTS shows how trade rules can drive sustainable development the final text contains a number of exceptions; we’re looking to the review mechanism to support ongoing improvement. The agreement covers three main areas:   🔹 Fossil fuel subsidies  🔹 Trade of environmental goods and services  🔹 Ecolabelling standards ➡️ The agreement sets up innovative, thoughtful ways governments can commit to action on each of these points. Its many carve-outs underscore the need for ongoing improvement. It serves as a call to action to ensure trade supports a sustainable, low-carbon future 🌎 Overall, ACCTS is a strong initial step toward harmonizing environmental protection with economic growth 🌱📈 🔗 Read our full analysis of ACCTS here: https://lnkd.in/gcy-qeqJ  Alice Tipping | Ivetta Gerasimchuk | Cristina Larrea, MA | Tara Laan | Jonas Kuehl | María Florencia Sarmiento | TD Satish 

NEW REPORT | Are India’s current measures sufficient to reach its 2030 clean energy goals? India’s current government support measures are on track to reach goals for solar PV and battery energy storage systems (BESSs), driven by government subsidies and policy support. However, emerging technologies like offshore wind and green hydrogen require urgent additional and sustained investment to reach cost competitiveness, according to a new report from the Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy fand the International Institute for Sustainable Development.     The report, “Budgeting for Net Zero: Government Support Needed to Meet India’s 2030 Clean Energy Goals,” calculated the cost gap to achieve India’s 2030 clean energy goals for five technologies. The cost gap shows how much clean technology prices must drop to match conventional technologies & meet India’s clean energy goals. It amounts to: ➡️ USD 61 billion for offshore wind  ➡️ USD 2.29 billion for electric two-wheelers   ➡️ USD 34 billion for green hydrogen      Both central and state governments in India must act now as small but early investments in clean energy technologies will attract much larger private investments—driving economic growth, job creation, and increased public revenue while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. 📗Read report: https://lnkd.in/ejpydBu7 Swasti Raizada Tara Laan Sunil Mani Saumya Jain Andrea M. Bassi Deepak Sharma, PhD Anasuya Gangopadhyay Upasna Ranjan Sarah Khan Bidisha Banerjee Georg Pallaske

The Government of Canada has released new national clean electricity regulations that require a net-zero grid by 2050 and ensure all Canadians benefit from clean power, new jobs, and lower costs.     But this also means Canada has stepped back from its COP 26 commitment to a net-zero grid by 2035.    A clean, reliable grid is feasible with more than 80% of Canada’s electricity already powered by clean energy. Experts stress Canadian governments, federal and provincial, should not lose sight of the 2035 pledge.    Clean electricity is vital to limit global temperature rise but a net-zero grid is also the right choice for households: ✅ Savings of up to CAD 15 billion/year by 2050  ✅ Stable pricing less reliant on volatile fossil fuels  ✅ Reliable power offered by renewables and storage     2050 is a final deadline, not a target. For Canadians to benefit from clean electricity ASAP, provinces will need to act. Some first steps: ▶️ Prioritize renewable energy ▶️ Disincentivize fossil fuels ▶️ Support interprovincial grid connections.    Learn more about how strive towards net-zero electricity:  https://lnkd.in/g4iNiwY3

#CSTEP and International Institute for Sustainable Development collaborated on a new report that examines if the government's financial and non-financial support measures would be sufficient for attaining #India’s goal of boosting a range of clean technologies by 2030. Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/gqT7pZxc Bidisha Banerjee, Saumya Jain, Vibhuti Garg, Sunil Mani, Indu K Murthy, Shruti Sharma, Sanyukta Samaddar, Swasti Raizada, Anasuya Gangopadhyay, Upasna Ranjan

🌍 How can India reshape its agricultural support to promote sustainability? Ranja Sengupta from Third World Network breaks it down. Since the 1960s, agricultural subsidies have been critical for food security, farmers’ livelihoods, and agricultural productivity in India 🌾📈 However, with rural poverty at 12.9% and 16.3% of the population malnourished, agricultural subsidies alone are not enough to stabilize food supplies.   In this new article, Third World Network’s Ranja Sengupta examines India’s key agricultural support and subsidies programmes: the minimum price support (MPS) and the public distribution system (PDS), and India’s input subsidies.  Ranja Sengupta highlights that any reevaluation of these agricultural support and subsidies programs should consider India’s socio-economic context, recommending:   ✅ Rationalization, monitoring, and enforcement of agricultural support programs and subsidies in India  ✅ Redesigning ineffective subsidies To drive significant change, policymakers must balance subsidy benefits with the challenges of rural poverty and food insecurity, working closely with farmer groups ⚖️🌾 📖️ Read it now: https://lnkd.in/gYgyaGuA  ➡️ This article is part of the latest #Trade & #Sustainability Review on how agricultural support and subsidies can foster sustainability in least-developed countries (#LDCs). Read the full edition here: https://lnkd.in/dr_YeevH  Also available in:  🔗 Français: https://lnkd.in/dWN6Q9ca   🔗 Español: https://lnkd.in/dMxfghrE  Stay in the loop ✨ Be the first to read our next edition by subscribing to the Trade & Sustainability Review newsletter. Sign up here! ✍️ https://lnkd.in/ge4vXvJ8

With the 4th Financing for Development Conference on the horizon, the world has momentum to step up in the face of urgent challenges in financing sustainable development, climate action, and biodiversity. In a new article, Alexandra Readhead, IISD’s Tax and Sovereign Debt Director looks at how countries prepare for the conference and explores how #FfD4 could accelerate global financing efforts for the SDGs. In the article, we propose that FfD4: ✅ Aligns Financing Strategies by reviewing and better aligning the existing frameworks for climate, nature, and development for maximum impact  ✅ Provides concrete guidance on the “how” of increasing tax revenues in developing countries, for example through property taxes and a push for effective taxation of natural resources    ✅ Expands sovereign debt relief addressing the growth of private, bonded debt and aligning fiscal space creation with initiatives like the Bridge Initiative and Debt Relief for Green and Inclusive Recovery     Read the piece: https://lnkd.in/gRfJFgBp #FinancingForDevelopment

The Energy Charter Conference adopted the "modernized" #EnergyCharterTreaty (ECT) on December 3, 2024. The #ECT has generated more investor–state claims from the #FossilFuel industry than any other treaty, triggering withdrawals from the European Union, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, among others. IISD's Lukas Schaugg explains what the modernization does, why it won’t stop more states withdrawing from this outdated treaty, and why the changes won’t deliver sufficient protection for #climate policies.   More ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gqDBa86H

NAP Global Network's deep dive thematic review that looks at more than 50 NAPs found that ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) and nature-based solutions (NbS) rank high among adaptation options in NAP documents. Read key takeaways in this new blog from Anika Terton, Jeffrey Qi, and Nicole Jang 👇