This report identifies future policy pathways for urban decision makers and stakeholders to reimagine the built and natural environments in Asian and Pacific cities. The solutions address four major development challenges: natural resource management, climate change, disaster risk, and inequalities.
This report assesses water governance in Argentina. It identifies several challenges to effective, efficient, and inclusive water policies as well as provides a set of policy recommendations to enhance water governance as a means to address relevant societal challenges, both within the scope of water management and beyond. It is the result of a policy dialogue with more than 200 stakeholders.
This paper examines how climate-related damages impact the stability of the global banking system.
The State of Sustainable Markets 2019: Statistics and Emerging Trends provides a snapshot of substantial growth of sustainability standards for bananas, cocoa, coffee, cotton, oil palm, soybean, sugarcane, tea and forestry products.
This paper highlights the role of national development bank (NDBs), drawing from case studies of the Brazilian Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social and the Development Bank of Southern Africa.
This paper Outside In? Using International Carbon Markets for Mitigation Not Covered by Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) Under the Paris Agreement outlines key issues and options relating to these questions. Whether, and how, such mitigation outcomes should be internationally transferred and accounted for raises many issues of capacity, fairness, breadth of mitigation, and incentives for making progress in the scope and ambition of NDCs over successive NDC cycles.