The post-2020 global biodiversity framework builds on the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and sets out an ambitious plan to implement broad-based action to bring about a transformation in society’s relationship with biodiversity and to ensure that, by 2050, the shared vision of living in harmony with nature is fulfilled.
This summary of an online public panel hosted by Emergency Leaders for Climate Action offers insights into the climate crisis from a First Nations’ perspective.
This report on finance and investment spells out the challenges of financing energy access and a global energy transition, and outlines what can be done to overcome them.
This report highlights priority recommendations for scaling up energy transition solutions, setting ambitious targets, mainstreaming policies and capturing opportunities to interlink efforts to achieve SDG 7 with other Sustainable Development Goals.
This policy paper catalogues tools and techniques used by public actors to mitigate risks and attract private investment in infrastructure.
On 29 July 2021, the Africa Natural Capital Accounting Community of Practice is hosting the webinar "Living in Harmony with Nature: Lessons from Ethiopia’s Experience on Nature-Based Solutions and the Green Legacy Initiative".
This report explains the more technical contours of how, by the 2030s, trucking, aviation and shipping could be decoupling from climate. Steel, aluminum, cement and plastics too could take new forms, saved and made in new ways and unexpected places under novel business models.
This report presents a comprehensive technical review of the literature on climate change and hazardous chemicals management, towards identifying a set of opportunities for simultaneously addressing these two critical elements of the broader sustainability challenge, and maps the interlinkages between hazardous chemicals, wastes and climate change, which combine to impact on efforts to conserve and restore nature.
This study draws together an evidence base that demonstrates beyond question the need for enhanced governance coordination between terrestrial activities and marine resources.
This think piece shows the marine plastic litter trends relevant to 2050, summarizes the current plastic policy landscape, and explores policy upstream and downstream interventions to achieve the Osaka Blue Ocean Vision, and provides concrete actions to ensure that projected plastic leakage can be reduced by 80 percent with existing solutions.