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This report examines on-going challenges for aligning land-use policy with biodiversity, climate, and food objectives and the opportunities to enhance the sustainability of land-use systems. It looks at six countries with relatively large agricultural and forestry sectors and associated greenhouse gas emissions, many of which also host globally important biodiversity.

The City Finance Lab is Europe’s first dedicated platform to help develop innovative finance solutions for green urban projects. It is working to engage cities and municipal finance stakeholders, through tailored support from international climate finance experts, to develop finance that is longer-term, more attuned to emerging risks, and more efficient at delivering returns for the economy and wider society.

This report provides evidence of the CO2 emissions from tourism and the implications of the different modes of transport. It provides insights into the evolution of tourism demand across the different global regions up to the year 2030. It also presents the expected transport-related CO2 emissions of the tourism sector against the current ambition scenario for the decarbonisation of transport.

The course Fostering Growth and Inclusion in Asia’s Cities by the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) describes ways to build the capacity of Asia’s cities to boost growth and employment. The focus is on sound urban planning, efficient public transport, and affordable housing. Its main learning objectives are to better understand the patterns of urbanisation in Asia and the implications for economic growth, to learn about policy options to make urbanisation work for all, and specifically to emphasise the role of city planning.

Key elements of the EQuIP toolbox have been converted into an e-learning course. The EQuIP toolbox was developed by UNIDO and GIZ to support policymakers in developing countries to formulate and design evidence-based strategies for inclusive and sustainable industrial development in the context of the EQuIP Project - Enhancing the Quality of Industrial Policy.

This report examines both the benefits and risks big data and AI can bring to the insurance industry. In particular, this reports discusses how the OECD Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence and the European Commission’s Independent High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence’s (HLAG AI) Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI should be considered in the context of the insurance sector.

In nine countries—Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, India, Jordan, Mongolia, Rwanda, Senegal, and Vanuatu—GGGI has worked on the design, or redesign, and operationalisation of new or existing national financing vehicles (NFVs). This paper reviews GGGI’s experience, considers lessons learned for future NFV projects that GGGI expects to undertake, and shares the organisation’s experience with others active in the climate finance space.

This report provides a detailed overview of the Green Growth Potential Assessment (GGPA) methodology in its current form and the extensive changes made to it since the first GGPA was conducted in 2015. These changes encompass all three stages of the assessment process: the preliminary assessment, consultation process, and final analysis.

This report introduces a model describing the full financial realities of fecal sludge management (FSM) projects; a methodology for quantifying the costs, direct effects, and economic spillover effects; and a toolkit to calculate their net present values and the overall program’s internal rates of return. This is demonstrated in the report through two citywide FSM programs in the Philippines. In both programs, economic spillover effects include improved tax revenues, property values, and health outcomes, and the present values of the direct effects and economic spillover effects exceed the original capital expenditure. This implies that when the policy makers set user charges to cover the recurrent costs such as operation and periodic maintenance, the FSM programs would be sustainable.

The purpose of EPA’s Guide for Industrial Waste Management is to provide facility managers, state and tribal regulators, and the interested public with recommendations and tools to better address the management of land-disposed, non-hazardous industrial wastes. The Guide can help facility managers make environmentally responsible decisions while working in partnership with state and tribal regulators and the public. It can serve as a handy implementation reference tool for regulators to complement existing programs and help address any gaps. The Guide can also help the public become more informed and more knowledgeable in addressing waste management issues in the community.