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Sustainable development is a broad, complex field with many overlapping, interconnected issues. It can be hard to stay on top of where progress is being made, what new issues are emerging, and how current events are shifting us in new directions. IISD’s experts have the insight you need.

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IISD’s Best of 2025: Articles

As 2025 draws to a close, we’re revisiting our most-read articles of the year.

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December 30, 2025

IISD’s Best of 2025: Publications

As 2025 draws to a close, we’re revisiting our most downloaded publications of the year.

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December 30, 2025

How Biophysical Monitoring Turns Data into Action for Nature-Based Solutions

Rigorous and consistent data analysis provides the feedback needed to refine strategies, attract investment, and strengthen natural infrastructure that delivers multiple social, environmental, and economic benefits.

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December 2, 2025

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“I Am a Tree”: Students Bring Climate Awareness to Life Through Creativity

In Kigali, Rwanda, youth are taking the lead in climate action by turning dance, drama, poetry, visual arts, and even fashion into powerful platforms for environmental awareness.

Insight October 2, 2025

In Adapting to Climate Change in Canada, We Overlook Governance at Our Peril

The Canadian federal government must remain committed to ensuring climate change adaptation actions and investments are taken forward.

Insight September 29, 2025

Why Gender Inclusion Must Drive the Just Energy Transition

As the global clean energy transition gains momentum, one principle becomes increasingly clear: we cannot talk about equity without addressing gender. And yet, for many women in South Africa, the energy transition feels divorced from their everyday realities.

Insight August 15, 2025

Let’s Get Serious About Tackling the Global Scourge of Plastic Pollution

The treaty that surfaces from the UN International Negotiating Committee must reduce plastic getting into aquatic ecosystems at all points along the supply chain.

Insight August 12, 2025

How State-Owned Power Companies Are Impacting the Energy Transition in Emerging Economies

State-owned power companies control about half of the world's power production capacity and, in many countries, hold the keys to ensuring energy security and a successful energy transition.

Insight August 12, 2025

Here's What Young People Are Looking for from the INC-5.2 Talks on Plastic Pollution

There are the ten things that the Youth Plastic Action Network want from the talks currently taking place in Geneva.

Insight August 5, 2025

How FfD4 Helped Reinvigorate Political Will to Move Beyond GDP

Moving “beyond GDP” talks are usually technical. At the year’s biggest finance for development conference, FfD4, the arguments turned political and moral.

Insight July 22, 2025

Reimagining the River: How art can help us adapt to climate change

Thandokuhle Zungu, a gender equality expert supporting SUNCASA implementation in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg, reveals how imagination, storytelling, and the beauty of collaboration are reshaping climate action.

Insight July 9, 2025

Securing Land Rights and Women’s Participation in Land-Based Investments Is Crucial for Food Systems Transformations

Food systems must transform alongside securing land rights to ensure equity, sustainability, and empowerment—especially for women.

Insight July 9, 2025

What’s Next for Climate Finance? From Seville to Belém

With the dust settling from COP29's hard-fought negotiations on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG), attention is shifting to how the climate finance goal will be met. The challenge is how to scale up financing for increasingly connected priorities in a challenging landscape of debt stress and cuts in official development assistance.

Insight July 9, 2025

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