This Guidance Note highlights the dynamic threat of urban water scarcity and the importance of assessing the resilience of urban WASH services by considering current and future available safe water against projected water demand.
This paper presents three main avenues for local governments to get involved in wholesale energy market issues concerning renewable energy: through public statements, at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) level, and at the Regional Transmission Organization (RTO)/Independent System Operator (ISO) level. In many cases, working collaboratively can help local governments overcome barriers like limited capacity, expertise or funding.
This practitioner’s guide explains how to promote gender-responsive forest tenure reform in community-based forest regimes. It is aimed at those taking up this challenge in developing countries.
This guidebook by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and Aalborg University (AAU) provides information for policy makers and examples of available tools and solutions to facilitate the use of low-temperature renewable heat sources in new and existing district energy systems.
This toolkit compiles policies, governance arrangements and related tools that facilitate the design and implementation of water management practices in line with the OECD Council Recommendation on Water. It is designed to inspire and support countries which have either adhered to, are considering adhering to, or aim to converge towards the OECD standard.
This preview presents options to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C and bring CO2 emissions closer to net zero by mid-century, offering high-level insights on technology choices, investment needs and the socio-economic contexts of achieving a sustainable, resilient and inclusive energy future.
This policy brief uses a novel approach to assess and understand the risks faced by Financial Institutions (FIs) and Forest Risk Commodity (FRC) producers from climate and land use change. The analysis highlights the most influential intervention points to minimize risks, which also contribute to decoupling forest and climate change risk from economic growth.
This report provides an assessment of the status and impacts of marine pollution in the Caribbean and provides recommendations to enhance the region’s resilience as it steers toward the Blue Economy. It highlights the major socio-economic, health, and ecological impacts of marine pollution, and provides an assessment of the main marine pollutants in the region including marine and coastal litter, untreated wastewater, and agricultural run-off.
This publication serves an introduction to bankable nature solutions and presents 13 case studies that offer different solutions that generate a financial return and have a positive impact on nature and climate.
This compendium provides the latest knowledge and capacity building materials on climate-smart agriculture and solar irrigation. The information presented in this compendium is based on the training materials used for capacity building purposes of ICRAF-CGIAR partners between 2014 and 2020. Overall, the technologies discussed explain the general practices and are supported by case studies.