This report State of Sustainability Initiatives Review offers a rare analysis of the market and performance characteristics of international sustainability standards operating across both the wild catch and aquaculture sectors.
With the recognition on the importance of partnership and collaboration to tackle climate change, the project on Low Carbon Development for China and India seeks to understand learnings on options, barriers and success stories on implementability of policies and programmes promoting low carbon development in China and India.
Based on an understanding of similarities and differences between China and India, in 2012, The Energy and Resources Institute of India (TERI), National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Co-operation, Central University of Finance and Economics and Zhejiang University launched one of the first collaborative efforts between research institutes in China and India on low carbon development. The intended outcome of the project is supporting policy development by facilitating south-south cooperation, creating relevant knowledge and building capacities.
Reductions in the greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity of passenger and freight transportation are possible through adoption of fuel-saving technologies, demand switching between modes, and large-scale electrification of fleets, in addition to other actions. In this study, future scenarios to 2030 and 2050 are the basis for assessment of GHG reduction potentials for major passenger and freight modes (automobiles, buses, trains, aircraft, and oceangoing vessels) across eight regions of the world. New fuel-saving technologies can significantly reduce the life-cycle GHG footprint of both passenger and freight vehicles, but not uniformly worldwide. Countries outside of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) lag behind OECD countries in GHG reduction potentials for all modes but oceangoing vessels owing to a combination of slower adoption of fuel-saving technologies and a slower decarbonization of electricity generation and other processes. The reduction of GHG intensity will occur more slowly for freight modes than for passenger modes.
This publication looks into the Solid Waste Sector situation in nine Caribbean countries that are facing similar challenges with increasing solid waste generation, changes in waste characterization, lack of adequate disposal sites, and low collection rates. The countries include the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, Guyana, Haiti, Suriname, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago.
In the context of the G20 Green Finance Study Group, one of the key questions focuses on the challenge of measuring progress around mobilizing capital for ‘green’ investments and shifting capital out of ‘brown’ investments. This briefing note provides a state-of-the-art review on measuring progress on green finance, with a particular emphasis on ‘climate-friendly’ finance. This section briefly reviews what we know about ‘green’ finance across asset classes, with a particular emphasis on questions around high-carbon and low-carbon finance. The next section maps the current options for benchmarking climate finance, as one aspect of the green finance space, to public policy objectives. The note concludes with mapping options for actions for policymakers and international agencies, notably the G20.
An India Advisory Council of the UNEP India Inquiry was convened by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). This report, Delivering a Sustainable Financial System in India highlights key proposals emerging from their discussions for aligning the Indian financial system with sustainability.
In the Indian context, they call for the development of a more robust and resilient ‘sustainability-oriented market framework’ focused on banking, institutional investment, public finance institutions and foreign direct investment. They called for policy and regulatory innovation in five areas: