Sustainable Development Goals: Status and Roadmap 2016-2030 takes stock of Nepal’s development status and projects a roadmap to 2030 with intermediate milestones in 2019 (end of the 14th periodic plan), 2022 (anticipated date for graduation from LDC status), and 2025 (vantage point for an accelerated development phase). It highlights major...
Despite holding a mammoth potential for generating clean hydropower, every three in ten rural Nepalese continue to live in darkness. They lack access to the national grid, and the generation of electricity is centralized which is barely keeping up with rising demand as the country urbanizes fast. The national target...
Nepal's Sustainable Development Agenda aims to guide and influence national-level planning and policies up to 2017. The agenda presented draws upon and is in conformity with the longer term goals envisaged in the Ninth Plan (1997-2002), the Tenth Plan (2002-2007), the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, the Millennium Development Goals, and...
White Paper on the Development of Tourism in Barbados is the national guide for the sustained growth of the Barbados tourism sector to ensure that the sector leads economic growth, social progress and environmental sustainability. Achieving the targets set out in this policy paper will be challenging. It will only...
Barbados Tourism Mater Plan 2014-2023: Report II. The Environment examines a number of these key issues, including land use, waste management, energy and water use, and also investigates issues related to climate change and disaster management, all of which have significant implications for the tourism industry. A discussion on stewardship...