The report Establishing China’s Green Financial System: Progress Report finds that China – which put green finance on the G20 agenda during its 2016 presidency – is following through on its political commitment to boost the financing required to do this.
The role of technology transfer in the mitigation of climate change has been strongly emphasized in the recent policy debate. This paper, Technology Diffusion and Climate Policy: A Network Approach and its Application to Wind Energy, offers a network-based perspective on the issue.
Quantitative country studies on the potential of investing in a green economy were conducted between 2013 and 2016 in eight African countries, namely, South Africa, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mauritius , Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda and Senegal.
The report Impacts of Pollution on Our Health and the Planet: The Case of Coal Power Plants focuses on the health and economic impacts of air pollution from the production of electricity from fossil fuels, particularly coal.
The paper Tackling Pollution is Essential for Meeting SDG Poverty Objectives identifies the links between poverty and the risks from different types of pollution, with examples from around the world, and examines how these risks pose a threat to the achievement of the SDGs.
Traditional knowledge has been used by generations of indigenous peoples and local communities to monitor their communities’ wellbeing and the state of their territories and natural resources.