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This briefing explores practical levers for upscaling circular construction strategies, and gives policymakers and construction industry professionals tips on how to anticipate and plan for labour market shifts linked to the circular transition.

The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) requires parties to eliminate the use of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in equipment by 2025 and to ensure the environmentally sound waste management of liquids containing PCB and equipment contaminated with PCB by 2028. Many parties to the convention have undertaken preliminary PCB...

This online training tool developed by the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention provides information on the technical guidelines on POPs wastes in a simple and interactive manner.

This guidance focuses on the procurement of plastic items and packaging in the tourism sector and aims to provide practical support for procurement practitioners.

This paper identifies the most important synergies and trade-offs between the SDGs and the Paris Agreement climate goals at the global level and provides theoretical groundwork for future empirical analysis.

This report provides a comprehensive, renewables-focused, long-term energy pathway for the transition to a cleaner and more sustainable energy system in Malaysia. 

This policy note investigates how gender equality and climate change intersect and explores programmatic experience on the gender-climate nexus. It also identifies promising entry points and solutions and offers recommendations for development practitioners, policymakers and businesses.

This report highlights the potential for innovative finance mechanisms to support biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation, and examines the challenges and opportunities for using biodiversity-positive carbon credits and nature certificates as financial instruments.

This briefing outlines the approach to debt-for-climate-and-nature swaps and highlights practical lessons that emerged from a pilot with Cabo Verde and Senegal.

This working paper provides an overview of existing knowledge and strategies supporting the energy transition. It proposes a Gender-Just Energy Transition Outcomes Framework, a tool that identifies impact areas for gender equality along the value chain and aims to provide sectoral guidance for practitioners and policymakers to assess and implement gender equality outcomes in energy transition initiatives.