The Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) Expert Group on Natural Capital has released the working paper, Practical Policy Use Cases for Natural Capital Information: A review of evidence for the policy relevance and impact of natural capital information. The paper outlines how natural capital approaches have been used in policymaking processes through a systematic review of 340 natural capital case studies.
The Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) Expert Group on Natural Capital has released the working paper, Measuring Nature’s Contribution to Economic Development: Towards a framework of indicators for national natural capital reporting. The paper presents the Natural Capital Indicators Framework (NCIF) with a manageable set of natural capital indicators to assist policymakers in integrating natural capital assets, flows and benefits into their decision-making on economic development and green growth.
The Green Stimulus Index, produced by Vivid Economics in partnership with Finance for Biodiversity (F4B), shines a light on how much money is flowing where and what this means for environmentally-friendly outcomes.
Session 4 of the African Forum on Green Economy, Natural Capital in Development Finance, will bring together a panel of major African development finance institutions to share their interests and ambitions for integrating natural capital into investments.
Governments around the world are taking extraordinary measures to mitigate the economic fallout of COVID-19. Their decisions in the weeks and months ahead will shape our lives for years to come. The fiscal packages that are being adopted as well as the funding that central banks are making available will have significant effects on livelihoods.
This report covers progress on the implementation of UNDP–UNEP Poverty-Environment Action for Sustainable Development Goals through seven full-fledged country projects, as well as two technical assistance projects, underway in 2019. It gives an overview on the project’s performance using established baselines, indicators and targets at the global and country levels, and provides lessons learned during the first full year of implementation.