Leading businesses and investors are now working out how to align themselves with the objectives of the Paris Agreement.
Carbon pricing is emerging 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 emission 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 Paris Agreement.
This inaugural report, Carbon Pricing Corridors: The Market View, was published in May 2017, covering the power sector and laying the ground-work for energy-intensive industries.
The forest sector has great potential for contributing to inclusive green growth, as it is labor intensive, provides significant export opportunities, and, if managed sustainably, can help to mitigate climate change. Promoting harvested wood products (HWP) (such as wood for construction or furniture, or biomass for energy) is an important strategy for maximizing the economic, social, and environmental potential of the forest sector.
In alignment with existing international climate and development goals, this report, Harnessing the Potential of Private Sector: Engagement in productive forests for green growth, quantifies the benefits of promoting HWP production in Mexico, Colombia, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Vietnam, and Peru, and recommends steps that can be taken to improve the mitigation potential of HWPs.
This scoping paper, Urban Biocycles, focuses on the potential of the significant volume of organic waste flowing through the urban environment.
This paper, The Circular Economy: A review of definitions, processes and impacts, reviews the growing literature on the circular economy with the aim of improving our understanding of the concept as well as its various dimensions and expected impacts.
The Report of the Initial GreenInvest Consultation covers the relaunch of GreenInvest under the German G20 Presidency to strengthen the connection between green finance momentum and the insights, innovations and needs of developing countries.
This assessment Low-carbon and Climate Resilient: Industrial Development in Africa aims to establish the industry vulnerability to climate change in the four case countries.