As the technical lead for the socio-economic response, UNDP and its country offices worldwide are working to assess the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on economies and communities. This report contains the preliminary findings of the socio-economic assessment conducted for Burkina Faso.
As the technical lead for the socio-economic response, UNDP and its country offices worldwide are working to assess the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on economies and communities. This report contains the preliminary findings of the socio-economic assessment conducted for the Republic of Congo.
This report develops a framework for assessing the extent to which energy transition measures could result in ISDS claims; explores the extent to which treaties with ISDS protect foreign-owned coal plants worldwide, and provides policy recommendations to help states preserve their ability to facilitate the low-carbon energy transition.
This report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) offers practical advice on key investment and policy decisions for the crucial post-COVID recovery.
The Biodiversity Guidance was developed as a stepwise approach to incorporate biodiversity into natural capital assessments.
This is a technical summary of the report ‘Scenario analysis of climate-related physical risk for buildings and infrastructure: climate science guidance’.
The goal of this report is to provide an overview of some of the current applications of key 4IR technologies (Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things and Big Data, Blockchain, Drones and Remote Sensing, and Virtual and Augmented Reality) in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene sector (WASH) globally and in the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) region, and outline the main opportunities and challenges in deploying these technologies in the WASH sector.
The report examines whether E scoring and reporting effectively serve markets and investors that are using ESG investing in part as a tool to make portfolios more resilient to physical and climate transition risks.
This report outlines how the financial sector can scale up financing to accelerate the shift to circular business models in order to keep resources at their highest value long-term and to reduce waste. It explores strategies and actions that financial institutions can take to manage related risks and opportunities.
This research unlocks how some of the most successful waste organisations around the world have solved the toughest challenges facing poorly funded waste management systems.