The COVID-19 crisis has had a massive impact on economies across the world, with several governments now seeking to design recovery programs. Ideally such programs should not only support recovery from recession but help achieve greener and more sustainable economies for the future. This report recommends that China’s green recovery package combine four key actions.
As part of UNDP's global effort to support countries design effective strategies and programs to recover from the COVID-19 crisis, UNDP Philippines conducted a rapid response survey for MSMEs to capture the experiences, behavior, and perceptions of the MSMEs as they cope, respond, and adapt to the supply shocks in the value chain due to the enhanced community quarantine.
This report outlines RMI’s recommendations for four key programs that US policymakers can use to jumpstart the economy, address equity, and advance a low- or zero-carbon future for the United States.
This report provides a set of action points for Arab and OECD Development Assistance Committee donors, highlighting the benefits of engaging in and co-operating through Islamic finance.
The Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) Expert Group on Natural Capital has released the working paper, Recognizing Natural Capital in Policy Frameworks for Green Growth. The paper suggests a set of checklist criteria for integrating natural capital into green growth policymaking after reviewing 11 green growth and natural capital policy frameworks. This integration framework is then applied to the green growth policy frameworks of four leading organisations, the results of which suggests that a more comprehensive consideration of natural capital assets and services could significantly strengthen green growth policy support at the national level.
The Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) Expert Group on Natural Capital has released the working paper, Natural Capital and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The paper presents a methodology to estimate the “natural capital gap” in attaining nine SDGs and demonstrates the estimated sum of global natural capital gaps.