The Protecting our World Heritage, Insuring a Sustainable Future is the first-ever global insurance industry guide highlighting the increasingly important role that the industry needs to play in protecting World Heritage Sites. It explains the risks that insurers face, the role of key actors in the insurance industry, and provides practical tools and a set of basic and advanced recommendations that insurers can implement in their risk management, insurance and investment activities to protect World Heritage Sites, while reducing carbon emissions, building resilience to climate change impacts and tackling biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation.
Taxing Energy Use 2019 presents a snapshot of where countries stand in deploying energy and carbon taxes, tracks progress made, and makes actionable recommendations on how governments could do better. Tax rates and tax coverage are detailed by country, sector, energy source and tax type.
The Renewables 2019 Global Status Report marks 15 years since Bonn2004, the landmark international conference that gave rise to the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21). Then, a “coalition of the willing” came together with one objective in mind: to support and accelerate the development of renewable energy. From the outset, REN21’s mandate has been to collect, consolidate and synthesise a vast body of renewable energy data to provide clear and reliable information on what is happening in real time. This mandate still holds today.
The Financing inclusive climate action in the UK: An investor roadmap for the just transition sets out the role that investors can play in delivering a just transition in the UK. It seeks to understand the growing momentum in favour of a just transition and to illustrate the implications through a set of place-based examples from Yorkshire and the Humber, before setting out recommendations for investor action.
The independant report by the High-Level Group of Wise Persons on the European financial architecture for development recommends three options to streamline European Union development finance activity outside Europe and strengthen support for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
The study Guyana Green Economy Modelling Study: Technical report serves to inform the actions of the Government of Guyana to achieve the emissions reduction commitments of the country under the climate agreement. It will also effectively support the main objectives of the GSDS, such as increasing economic diversification and growth, social inclusiveness, and sustainable management of natural resources.