Natural capital encompasses the world's living and non-living natural assets. It forms the basis for environmental and economic life through natural resource production and the provision of ecosystem services. Despite the proliferation of national green growth plans in recent years, only a handful of the more than 60 such plans include strong provisions for valuing, protecting and enhancing natural capital.
This report Trade Finance in Africa Overcoming Challenges is based on primary surveys conducted by the African Development Bank Two questionnaires were distributed to commercial banks in 2013 and 2015 in order to report on their trade finance activities during the periods 2011-2012 and 2013-2014 respectively. In these surveys, trade finance refers to financing activities aimed at supporting external trade only.
The working paper Budgeting for NDC Action – Initial Lessons from Climate-Vulnerable Countries addresses the following question: are climate change-related expenditures starting to appear in national budgets to secure the early implementation of countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)?
The International Journal on Green Growth and Development is an effort to stir a debate around emerging ‘green’ concepts and development. The publication aims at building knowledge through stakeholder engagement on policy-relevant issues to understand the many facets of green growth and development.
The Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) case study of Namibian highlights the economic and environmental benefits of bush control on national and local level.
This study evaluates a program of payments for ecosystem services (PES) in Uganda that offered forest-owning households annual payments of 70,000 Ugandan shillings per hectare if they conserved their forest. The program was implemented as a randomized controlled trial in 121 villages, 60 of which received the program for two years.