This report also provides a framework for how financial instruments can be combined and deployed in innovative ways to overcome barriers to finance and capitalize climate solutions in Africa.
This report suggests ways that cities can be better prepared to address a wide range of shocks and transition to sustainable urban futures.
This report highlights how city leadership, integrated approaches and collaboration between various actors are driving cities to continue their pursuit towards sustainability goals and tackle crises like COVID-19.
The aim of this report is to highlight the opportunities for scaling up the use of ecosystem-based adaptation to help put the world on a more climate-resilient and nature-positive pathway.
This report provides the international community with a global dashboard to register progress on the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 7 - ensuring universal energy access, doubling progress on energy efficiency and increasing the share of renewable energy.
This report examines the data available and potential indicators to measure the role that energy plays in education, gender equality and sustainable land use.
This report identifies specific gaps, challenges and constraints that SIDS face in the means of implementation to achieve biodiversity targets and conservation goals.
Insights from the paper can help policymakers devise country-specific adaptation plans as part of holistic climate strategies that also include mitigation and transition risk management.
This review analyses global ESIA literature to inform the World Bank’s response to Borrower country requests for assistance in strengthening national systems for ESIA, provide input to broader World Bank country strategies and identify priority areas for future World Bank engagement.
This report sets out emerging insights from a review of publicly available financing strategies for adaptation prepared by developing countries.