Falling clean energy costs provide opportunity to boost climate action in COVID-19 recovery packages. As COVID-19 hits the fossil fuel industry, the GTR 2020 shows that renewable energy is more cost-effective than ever – providing an opportunity to prioritize clean energy in economic recovery packages and bring the world closer to meeting the Paris Agreement goals.
This framework provides guidance for cities considering policies that can deliver the highest impact within their geopolitical contexts and regulatory systems. Over 50 existing policies from leading cities have been evaluated, categorized, and scored according to their potential, cost efficiency, ease of implementation, and enforceability.
This case study describes GHG inventories and emissions scenarios, and their value to policy and decision makers. The study then presents the approaches used to develop the Mpumalanga inventory and scenarios, discusses the key data sources and challenges, and summarizes lessons for others developing sub-national inventories and future scenarios.
This IIF paper summarizes key internationally recognized ESG disclosure frameworks, as well as evolving regulatory approaches in major jurisdictions.
Following the enormous health and social costs imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, this paper draws upon previous work on assessing energy, environmental, and health priorities to advise on some of the key issues for rebuilding economies to deliver benefits fairly for planetary and human health.
The COVID-19 pandemic has implications for the EU’s climate action and the European Green Deal. This policy brief presents three potential issues caused by the pandemic and discusses the opportunity that the pandemic presents to take deep and lasting climate action – and how exactly this could happen.
This paper proposes five priorities for leaders to keep in mind when emerging from the COVID-19 crisis in order to ensure a more sustainable future.
This paper discusses the ways in which countries can build a more sustainable and inclusive future.
This background brief discusses how the disruptive force of the COVID-19 pandemic opens a narrow policy window to steer economic development onto a more sustainable, equitable and net-zero emissions path
This collection of essays discusses the potential challenges and opportunities in the post-COVID-19 world.