On May 8, 2019, the China Urban Carbon Emissions Summit and Low Carbon Development Seminar was held in Science City, Chengdu Tianfu New District, from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the National Development and Reform Commission, the [...]
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The international stage shows the story of China, and the forces of all parties promote local action
On the morning of December 7, 2018, the Department of Eco-Environmental Response to Climate Change, the National Climate Change Strategy Research and International Cooperation Center (NCSC), the American Association for Sustainable Development [...]
Meeting PurposeGeneral Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly stressed that tackling climate change is a common cause of mankind, and China will bear 100% of its obligations. In order to achieve the goal of the Paris Agreement to control the [...]
Will train factory managers in critical manufacturing skillsPune, India – August 26, 2016 – The Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) held a launch ceremony for the first India EHS+ Center in Pune, marking the official transition from the [...]
On June 15, we had a wonderful celebration of ISC's 25th Anniversary at Shelburne Farms. It was a terrific evening from start to finish, in a gorgeous setting, with so many of ISC's friends and partners, current and former staff, and past and [...]
On March 18-19, 2015, we convened a group of environment, health and safety (EHS) leaders in Hong Kong to talk about the best ways to engage and support suppliers. In preparation for the summit, we conducted a survey, full results from which are [...]
A blog post from Director of US Programs Christopher Forinash
Creating resilient regions and communities represents one of America's most important challenges in generations. Over the last 60+ years, unchecked, subsidized suburban expansion [...]
This post is by Anna Casey. It originally appeared at the CityLinks blog in April, 2014, and was featured recently on USAID's Learning Lab.
Last week, I returned to chilly “mud season” in Vermont from sunny Santo Domingo where ISC [...]
Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Executive Director Ellen Kahler recently visited ISC HQ to present a webinar about the acclaimed Vermont Farm to Plate (F2P) Network’s use of Collective Impact principles to generate thousands of sustainable jobs [...]
On November 18, the team at ISC Serbia organized a closeout conference to mark the completion of the two-year USAID-funded Civil Society Forward (CSF) project. The event served as an opportunity not only to showcase the results of our partner [...]
Blog post by Richard Paisner
It was my privilege to represent ISC in Serbia last month at the close-out ceremony for our Civil Society Forward project, which is winding down. ISC has been working in Serbia for a decade, and in my time on the [...]
Given our six-year (and counting) relationship with the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Compact, and our recently launched initiative to support other, similar regional climate collaboratives across the country, we could hardly have put it [...]
