The WTO and IRENA have launched a new booklet highlighting the need for open trade policies and harmonized product standards to support the deployment of solar photovoltaic technologies. By assisting an expansion in solar energy, trade can contribute to environmental goals and support economic recovery in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis.
A 'Silent Spring' for the Financial System? Exploring Biodiversity-Related Financial Risks in France
This paper contributes to an emerging literature aimed at uncovering the linkages between biodiversity loss and financial instability, by exploring biodiversity-related financial risks in France.
This report aims to raise awareness of the importance of the proper legal, regulatory and policy environment needed to promoted resilience and by extension sustainable economic development.
The research paper offers an overview of some of the main standards and standardization initiatives related to plastics, identifies some of the gaps in the landscape of these standards, and highlights the potential role and limitations of standards in combatting plastics pollution.
The recommendations of this report centre on the notions of sustainability, resilience and the recognition that changing market conditions and emerging market structures necessitate the revision of the current competition law framework.
The guidance provides a conceptual and methodological framework that countries may apply, adapt and consider as they develop integrated national waste management strategies.
This paper assesses the role of trade policy in stimulating domestic manufacturing of components in renewable energy projects, while avoiding increases in project costs and consumer prices that can delay the renewable energy transition.
This report explains how the quality of infrastructure investments in developing Asia can be enhanced.
This report promotes the concept of green purchasing and highlights best practices for achieving sustainable consumption and production.
The Circular Economy Global Sector Best Practices series provides a background resource or future efforts to engage Canadian firms and innovators in the journey towards a circular economy. This report profiles the bioeconomy, including its economic and environmental importance, and data on economic potential of waste resources.