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The post-corona recovery can both put the EU’s decarbonisation progress back on track – after low-carbon investments will inevitably take a hit – and support economic recovery through the EU’s Green Deal proposals.

This brief provides an overview of existing economic instruments and other measures that can be used to help governments reduce waste and incentivise reuse and recycling in line with the waste hierarchy.

The Good Life Goals is a platform that translates the SDGs into emojis and offers evidence based actions individuals can take.

World Wildlife Fund and their partners have authored a paper that contains a set of recommended criteria for assessing the quality of carbon credits

The Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) Expert Group on Natural Capital has released the working paper, Practical Policy Use Cases for Natural Capital Information: A review of evidence for the policy relevance and impact of natural capital information. The paper outlines how natural capital approaches have been used in policymaking processes through a systematic review of 340 natural capital case studies.

The Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) Expert Group on Natural Capital has released the working paper, Natural Capital Platforms and Tools for Green Growth Planning. The paper presents findings from an assessment of 28 platforms and tools and provides a useful tool for policymakers and practitioners to narrow down the choice of platforms and tools best suited to the objectives of their inquiry.

The Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) Expert Group on Natural Capital has released the working paper, Measuring Nature’s Contribution to Economic Development: Towards a framework of indicators for national natural capital reporting. The paper presents the Natural Capital Indicators Framework (NCIF) with a manageable set of natural capital indicators to assist policymakers in integrating natural capital assets, flows and benefits into their decision-making on economic development and green growth.

This series of factsheet from UNEP provides guidelines on how to deal with COVID-19 related wastes, and provides alternative information needed to assess the problem.

Acknowledging community concerns over the impact of tailings dam failures, such as at Mount Polley and Samarco, this report seeks to examine and explain why tailings dam failures continue to occur. It provides an accessible and balanced description of the complexities surrounding tailings dam failures, informing the global community of the issues. Sixteen years on from the 2001 International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) “Tailings Dams: Risk of Dangerous Occurrences” report, it gives an update on the status of reforms and provides momentum and direction for advancing the shared ambition of eliminating tailings dam failures. It also provides an overview of the key issues, using case studies to illustrate causes and consequences of tailings dam failures, the progress of reform and the need for a coordinated stakeholder response. 

This report aims to be the starting point from which a productive global conversation on sand extraction can begin.