The Future of Wind report highlights the growth needed in wind power to achieve Paris climate goals. It also offers insights on cost-reduction opportunities, technology trends and the need to prepare electricity grids for rising shares of wind power.
The report looks at urbanisation trends across emerging and developing economies in Africa; Asia and the Pacific; emerging Europe, Central Asia and the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean; and Latin America and the Caribbean.
The New Plastics Economy Global Commitment 2019 Progress Report assesses progress of the global effort to prevent plastic pollution, highlighting leading examples, and disclosing the progress of individual companies and governments towards a circular economy for plastics.
The report Growing in Circles: Climate-ready, resilient, resource-efficient and equitable cities summarises the results of applying recommendations set out in the Weight of Cities report by the International Resource Panel. This summary report describes the original work that has been developed by the Global Initiative for Resource Efficient Cities (GI-REC) to identify and test promising approaches and tools in pilot cities around the world, especially in the global south.
The 2019 Asia and the Pacific Renewable Energy Status Report provides a comprehensive overview of renewable energy developments in the world’s largest and fastest growing region, covering 18 selected countries across five sub-regions.
This policy brief Making Infrastructure Resource Efficient identifies a critical need to decouple economic growth from the extraction and use of natural resources. Increasing the resource efficiency of infrastructure can be a major driver of the transition to sustainable development.