This paper categorizes actions that can be taken to enhance NDCs with climate-friendly cooling, summarizing the work being done in 10 countries, as well as signposting how an additional 45 countries have included climatefriendly cooling in their enhanced NDCs. This paper categorizes the types of action that countries can take to enhance their NDCs with climate-friendly cooling.
This paper reflects a comprehensive literature review, discussions from a February 2020 Ocean Data Roundtable hosted by the Center for Open Data Enterprise (CODE) in partnership with Ocean Conservancy, Esri, NOAA, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft, and interviews with ocean data experts
This paper examines green recovery measures through the lens of a just transition. It uses three key dimensions of a just transition—distributional impacts, social inclusion, and transformative intent—to assess green recovery interventions around the world.
This report aims to help financial decision-makers to align finance with sustainable development, accelerating the transition to a net-zero, climate resilient economy, based on the latest scientific findings and policy developments.
This Global Methane Assessment highlights one of the greatest opportunities available today to simultaneously address our interlinked planetary crises and make peace with nature. It highlights the critical role that cutting methane emissions, including from the fossil fuel industry, plays in slowing the rate of global warming.
The aim of this note is to show how NDC enhancement and economic recovery plans can intersect and reinforce each other to help countries’ economic recovery while addressing the climate crisis. This is one piece of a three-part series, with a specific focus on the agriculture and forest sectors. Other expert notes in the series address how economic recovery packages and NDC actions can be integrated in the power and transport sectors.
Based on the SDG framework, this report provides an overview of the gender-environment nexus, looking into data and evidence gaps, economic and well-being benefits, and governance and justice aspects.
This report provides the latest findings and policy guidance for G7 and other countries in four key areas: measuring and mainstreaming biodiversity; aligning budgetary and fiscal policy with biodiversity; embedding biodiversity in the financial sector; and improving biodiversity outcomes linked to international trade.
This paper demystifies sovereign ESG as a distinct segment of the ESG sector by assessing the major sovereign ESG providers that have laid the foundation for the operationalization of ESG investing in sovereign fixed income markets.
The Biodiversity Guidance Navigation Tool is designed to guide users through a biodiversity-inclusive natural capital assessment, following the steps outlined in the Natural Capital Protocol; Frame, Scope, Measure and Value and Apply. Throughout the steps, the tool suggests a number of biodiversity-specific tools, resources, and methodologies you can further explore to assist your assessment.