Broadening the Dialogue: Exploring alternative futures to inform climate action covers critical drivers that are likely to shape the next few decades, plausible future scenarios and the opportunities for decarbonisation, and how different climate action strategies may fare in an uncertain future.
Belize is exceptionally vulnerable to natural disasters and climate change. This report, Belize: Climate Change Policy Assessment, takes stock of Belize’s plans to manage its climate response, from the perspective of their macroeconomic and fiscal implications. It suggests macroeconomically relevant reforms that could strengthen the likelihood of success of the national strategy and identifies policy gaps and resource needs.
Forests play an important role in producing and regulating freshwater flows, and forested watersheds are essential for sustaining freshwater supply. Forests and Water: Valuation and payments for forest ecosystem services assesses the governance, design and funding sources of various payments for watershed services (PWS) schemes, and promotes the understanding of a wide range of values related to watershed services of forests and its co-benefits, such as carbon mitigation.
The steps set out in this document enable a company to decide whether it wishes to make the transition to activities that deliver a Net Gain for Biodiversity (BNG) - or at least No Net Loss - and how to get there.
This policy brief examines experiences with gender mainstreaming and the situation of women, men, girls and boys in Lao PDR to identify some of the barriers to inclusive economic growth, gender equality and poverty reduction. The purpose is to provide recommendations to help promote gender equality in the country's National Green Growth Strategy (NGGS) and as green growth is mainstreamed into national planning and policy-making.
This policy brief, Mainstreaming Biodiversity In The Infrastructure Sector: Fostering system-level approaches, explores interlinkages between biodiversity, ecosystems, and landscapes and diverse forms of infrastructure. Recognising that this nexus is central to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, it calls attention to the need for an integrated approach to infrastructure planning and development to mainstream biodiversity in the infrastructure sector.