CLIMATE CHANGE

• Climate change position statement | Posicionamiento de la iaia sobre cambio climãtico (PDF)
• Climate change position statement blog post by David Bancroft, 1 August 2020
• Selected elements under the IAIA Climate Change and IA Action Plan (PDF)

Resources

• Climate smart decisions FasTips (PDF)
• Climate change international best practice principles (PDF)

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

•  COVID-19 pandemic position statement (PDF)

Survey results

• How COVID-19 is affecting IA practitioners (Section 1) (PDF)
• Tracking How the pandemic is affecting the practice and profession of impact assessment (Section 2) (PDF)

Blog posts

• COVID-19 pandemic position statement blog post  by Luis Montañez-Cartaxo, Sara Bice, Ben Cave and Marla Orenstein, 23 April 2020
• Eliminating impact assessment is irresponsible by David Bancroft, 24 June 2020
• Curtailing work on impact assessments due to COVID-19 is unjustified by David Bancroft, 30 June 2020
• Re-envisioning impact assessment by David Bancroft, 1 July 2020
• Results are in:  Second survey on “Impact of COVID-19 on Impact Assessment  by David Bancroft, 21 September 2020
• Unless it changes, impact assessment risks becoming irrelevant by Charles Kelly, 30 September 2020
• The world is pivoting due to COVID-19. Should IA as well? by Peter Croal, 1 October 2020
• Don’t blame the bats by Joanna Treweek and Susie Brownlie, 20 October 2020
• How might IAIA respond to our members’ concerns raised in the IAIA COVID-19 surveys? by Wes Fisher, 1 December 2020 
• COVID-19 pandemic may herald the return of science by David Bancroft, 7 April 2020

Resources

• COVID-19 impacts on E&S field assessment work: Adapting to current conditions and planning for future (webinar)
• Thinking ahead: For a sustainable recovery from COVID-19 (Coronavirus) blog post by Stéphanie Hallegatte and Stephen Hammer, World Bank Blog, 30 March 2020
• What could we learn from a health impact assessment of Covid-19? article by Monica O'Mullane and Ben Cave, RTÉ Brainstorm, 5 January 2021
• Europe signals pandemic made green agenda a security priority article by Ewa Krukowska and Nikos Chrysoloras, Bloomberg News, 16 April 2020
• Building resilient societies after the COVID-19 pandemic: Key messages from the International Resource Panel UNEP 2020 (downloadable PDF) 
• Covid-19 Guidance for infrastructure projects IDB 2020 (downloadable PDF) 
• Green shoots: are COVID-19 recovery funds helping the environment? article by UNEP, 10 March 2021
• Are We Building Back Better? Evidence from 2020 and Pathways for Inclusive Green Recovery Spending report by UNEP, 10 March 2021
• Field Research during the Pandemic: Challenges and Solutions from the Perspective of PhD Candidates and Postdoctoral Researchers webinar co-sponsored by Environmental Peacebuilding Association and IAIA’s Disasters and Conflict Section, 19 February 2021
• Environmental Peacebuilding Association COVID-19 Resource Page

BLACK LIVES MATTER

• Black Lives Matter position statement (PDF)
• Black Lives Matter position statement blog post by David Bancroft, 11 June 2020