Self-insurance Against Natural Disasters: The use of pension funds in Pacific Island countries provides a normative analysis of the use of early pension withdrawals after disasters, by setting up a life-cycle saving model with myopic households facing large natural disaster shocks
Africa SDG Index and Dashboards 2018 is a tool to track progress toward the SDGs, to help pinpoint key implementation challenges, and to assist countries in benchmarking their SDG performance against their African peers.
Law and National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, provides an overview of current thinking and the experience of countries in using legal frameworks to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity at the national level.
The State of Vancouver's Green Economy 2018 details the city of Vancouver’s transformation from a resource based economy to now one of the fastest growing, diverse and greenest economies in the world.
Carbon pricing has emerged as a key mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which means that private and public stakeholders are seeking an informed view of how carbon-related price signals can drive global emissions reductions in line with these goals. In 2017, CDP and the We Mean Business Coalition launched the Carbon Pricing Corridors initiative with the aim of enabling large market players to define the carbon prices needed for industry to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. Many companies and financial institutions are already adapting to this new paradigm by assessing risk within a 2°C constraint and seeking low-carbon opportunities.
The inaugural report was published in May 2017 with a focus on the power sector, considered by some as the foundation of the low-carbon transition. This new report, Carbon Pricing Corridors: The market view 2018, features an update on the power sector a year following the initial inquiry process and a new Corridor for the chemical sector.
Our world economy is only 9.1% circular, leaving a massive ‘Circularity Gap’. This alarming statistic is the main output of this first Circularity Gap Report, in which we launch a metric for the circular state of the planet. Taking the United Nations’ Emissions Gap Report as inspiration, the Circularity Gap Report provides a framework and fact-base to measure and monitor progress in bridging the gap, year on year. Being able to track and target performance via the Global Circularity Metric will help the global community engage in uniform goal-setting and guide future action in the most impactful way.
The report outlines four steps to take action in bridging the circularity gap: