The Environmental Stewardship Initiatives in the Canadian Agricultural Sector under Growing Forward 1 and 2 working paper is a back-of-the-envelope evaluation of environmental stewardship subsidies in Alberta and recommendations for future evaluations.
Over the past four years, the number of measures taken by financial policymakers and regulators to promote green and sustainable finance has significantly increased. The Greening the Rules of the Game report is the first to chart this ‘quiet revolution’ and analyse this important new trend in terms of the geographical, sectoral and thematic spread of measures.
Greener growth, a just transition and green job creation figure prominently in the global agenda today. However, we do not yet have a full understanding of the likely employment impacts of different policy options.
Greener Growth, Just Transition, and Green Jobs: There's a lot we don't know presents the result of a review of the recent green growth literature with a view to summarize existing evidence on employment impacts from green growth and just transition policies, suggesting where evidence is scarce and thus pointing to future areas for investigation.
Tracking SDG7: The energy progress report provides a global dashboard on progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7). The report is a joint effort of the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the World Bank, and the World Health Organization (WHO), which the United Nations (UN) has named as global custodian agencies, responsible for collecting and reporting on country-by-country energy indicators for reporting on SDG7.
World Employment and Social Outlook 2018: Greening with jobs presents an assessment the employment impacts of the transition to a green economy. The reported estimates suggest that the net effect on job numbers will be positive, with a net increase of approximately 18 million jobs across the world as a result of the adoption of sustainable practices.
The paper The Role of Investors in Promoting Sustainable Infrastructure Under the Belt and Road Initiative examines how the multilateral development banks (MDBs) and the European bilateral development finance institutions (DFIs) encourage the use of sustainable procurement by their borrowers, and how China’s policy banks approach this issue.