This is a compendium featuring six successful examples of green public procurement implementation in four different Asia-Pacific countries - Thailand, Japan, China, and Korea.
This document presents two case studies which examine the contracting of rubbish collection to the private sector in Papua New Guinea, and possibility of outsourcing household waste collection in Fiji.
This case study analyses how coordination between environment, social, along with economic targets, and sufficient data to monitor progress, are required to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Viet Nam.
This case study builds on experiences shared by Africa Mini-Grids Community of Practice (AMG-CoP) members and further explores best practices for community engagement in the design and implementation of mini-grid projects. It draws particularly on recent activities in Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
This PDA describes the threats to Mongolia's already-degraded peatlands, and covers management strategies for the restoration and protection of these areas.
This paper presents an ex-ante cost-benefit analysis of large-scale rangeland restoration through the Hima system within the Zarqa River Basin, drawing on experience from a pilot initiative by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Jordanian Ministry of Agriculture since 2010. The ecosystem services that arise from rangeland restoration are valued using a combination of stated preference, avoided costs, replacement cost, and market prices approaches.
This case study provides an updated overview of the European electricity sector transition, focusing on key topics like the growth in renewables, conventional power generation, electricity consumption, and CO₂ emissions. The case study also provides an overview of 2018 electricity consumption, generation and emissions by country with downloadable data for emissions by country to enable others to also perform up-to-date analysis.
This case study aims to show peer cities, large and small, that the principles and processes behind fossil fuel divestment are transferable to nearly any location where the will to divest exists.
These case studies demonstrate how corporate buyers have effectively embedded sustainability in their procurement processes to improve resource efficiency and reduce GHG emissions.
This report presents three case studies in the context of centralised large-scale composting facilities in Sri Lanka in order to reveal the factors and approaches that led to positive results under different type of operational modality.