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.
This is the third Environmental Performance Review of Ireland. Ireland’s progress in delinking the economy from environmental pressures has been uneven in the last decade. Encouraging businesses and households to take action is key.
Lao PDR policy makers have recognized the economic potential of protected areas and seek to develop these sites as a focus of the National Socio-Economic Development Plan 2021-2025 and the 2030 National Green Growth Strategy, given the globally unique natural heritage of Lao PDR.
Pesticides management is important for sustainable agriculture and green growth. Sound pesticides management and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in particular are widely acknowledged as important mechanisms to mitigate pre- and post-harvest losses and to achieve sustainable agricultural intensification.
This report shares the analysis on the effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the agri-food system in Liberia based on the assessment conducted during July–September 2020. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is implementing a project to contribute to data collection and analysis linked to COVID-19 to inform evidence-based programming in selected countries.
In the past decade, greenhouse gases and air pollutant emissions, municipal waste generation, energy and material consumption, and water abstractions decreased, However, Belgium's performance remains insufficient to halt biodiversity loss and to alleviate the growing pressures of demographic development, urbanization and intensive agricultural practices.