This case study examines how the city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil has adopted public mitigation policies, which include adaptation measures to climate change and ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and their effects on local and global warming.
This case study from Boulder, Colorado, demonstrates how data analysis, collection and monitoring can bring about effective climate action.
This case study from Mexico provides local governments with examples of how to develop policies and programmes designed to adapt, mitigate and become resilient to climate change based on data.
This case study from Birmingham, England, provides local policy-makers with best-practice examples of how to use data to decarbonize their cities.
The case study summarizes the effort that the Government of the Philippines is taking to fulfill its climate commitments to the Paris Agreement by developing a climate-responsive budget as part of the country’s National Climate Change Action Plan.
This case study explores how the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) is working to realize Sri Lanka's ambitious renewable energy goals to ensure a more reliable transition towards a greener future.
This case study summarizes efforts that the sub-national governments of Sri Lanka and Bhutan took to prepare their Climate Resilient Development Action Plans in order to achieving their Nationally Determined Contributions and Sustainable Development Goals.
This report presents a compilation of examples that can inspire the practical implementation of a green recovery, drawing upon measures and instruments that have been deployed in countries worldwide, particularly in developing and emerging economies. The collection comprises 23 examples from more than 19 countries.
While the social and economic effects of COVID-19 are likely to last for many years, careful recovery planning can mitigate negative long-term impacts. For Indonesia, reassessing its reliance on coal for electricity would be an important step in the country’s green recovery.
This study utilizes an innovative integrated economic and environmental model (IEEM) coupled with land use land cover (LULC), and ecosystem service models (IEEM+ESM) to understand how various policy interventions could affect economic, poverty amelioration and environmental outcomes in Rwanda.