you’re not thinking Maybe big enough.
Summary
The IISD Impact Centre aims to act as a catalyst for sustainable development by leveraging the International Institute for Sustainable Development's (IISD) networks to scale field-tested innovations. Rather than creating new formal structures, the Centre focuses on increasing the impact of existing projects through strategy, capacity building, and knowledge sharing. It targets areas including climate change, energy, and trade, and seeks to become self-sustaining within three years through a "Circle of Friends" partnership model. Current demonstration projects include the CRiSTAL Tool for climate change adaptation and economic valuation training for the United Nations Environment Programme.
Key insights
- The IISD Impact Centre is designed to help innovators scale up and share proven sustainability innovations without creating new structures that would divert resources from the primary work.
- Scaling innovations requires a specific set of methods, including strategy development, capacity building, communications techniques, participatory scenarios, partnership management, community building, and marketplace readiness.
- The Impact Centre focuses its efforts on several key thematic areas, including climate change, energy, water, trade, investment, youth, natural resources, and telecommunications.
- The Centre is implementing four demonstration projects, including the CRiSTAL Tool for integrating climate change adaptation into community projects and a project with the United Nations Environment Programme to package economic valuation of ecosystems content for officials in Africa and Asia.
- The Impact Centre is structured as a "more-than-profit" social enterprise with a goal to be self-sustaining within three years via a "Circle of Friends" consisting of four or five major organizations, foundations, and aid agencies.
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- International Institute for Sustainable Development (n.d.). you’re not thinking Maybe big enough. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/brochure_do_good_better.pdf
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- International Institute for Sustainable Development. you’re not thinking Maybe big enough. n.d. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/brochure_do_good_better.pdf.
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- {{cite report |author=International Institute for Sustainable Development |title=you’re not thinking Maybe big enough. |url=https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/brochure_do_good_better.pdf |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}
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- @techreport{internationalinstituteforsustainabledevelopmentndyoure, author = {{International Institute for Sustainable Development}}, title = {{you’re not thinking Maybe big enough.}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, url = {https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/brochure_do_good_better.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }
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