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Website. www .iisd .org. The International Institute for Sustainable Development ( IISD) is an independent think tank founded in 1990 working to shape and inform international policy on sustainable development governance. The institute has three offices in Canada - Winnipeg, Ottawa, and Toronto, and one office in Geneva, Switzerland.
IISD Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA, known as ELA before 2014) is an internationally unique research station encompassing 58 formerly pristine freshwater lakes in Kenora District, Ontario, Canada. [3] [4] In response to the International Joint Commission (IJC)'s 1965 recommendations related to transboundary pollution, [5] the federal and ...
International Indian School Dammam ( IISD) (formerly Indian Embassy School Dammam) is an English-medium K-12 Indian school in Saudi Arabia led by Sunil Peter. It is the largest school in the MENA region by number of students. Most of its 16000+ students come from in and around Ad-Dammam, Al-Khobar, Abqaiq, Al Qatif, Al-Hofuf, and Ras Tanura.
Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur DBE (born 8 July 1976) is a retired English sailor, from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in Cowes, Isle of Wight . MacArthur is a successful solo long-distance yachtswoman. On 7 February 2005, she broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe, a feat which gained her ...
The International Seabed Authority ( ISA) ( French: Autorité internationale des fonds marins) is a Kingston, Jamaica-based intergovernmental body of 167 member states and the European Union established under the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and its 1994 Agreement on Implementation. The ISA's dual mission is to authorize ...
IISD is an acronym that may refer to: International Institute for Sustainable Development; International Indian School Dammam This page was last edited on 27 ...
Sustainability metrics and indices are measures of sustainability, using numbers to quantify environmental, social and economic aspects of the world. [1] There are multiple perspectives on how to measure sustainability as there is no universal standard. [2] Intead, different disciplines and international organizations have offered measures or ...
China's circular economy. A circular economy is an alternative way countries manage their resources, where instead of using products in the traditional linear make, use, dispose method, resources are used for their maximum utility throughout their life cycle and regenerated in a cyclical pattern minimizing waste. [1]