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ADBI, UNiLAB on Integrated System Analysis Tools, and the Energy Studies Institute at National University of Singapore are seeking paper submissions that examine evidence-based policy recommendations for boosting renewable energy in Asia.

On 8-10 July 2020, the Wessex Institute is hosting the 9th International Conference on Sustainable Tourism in Madrid, Spain.

The Biarritz Pledge calls on countries to support the CCAC’s Efficient Cooling Initiative.

The Mesoamerican Reef Fund identifies key reef sites across Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, an economic valuation of reefs and the services they provide, hurricane risk and vulnerability assessments as well as an estimate of the cost of emergency response actions. It plans to train and set up responses from on the ground emergency brigades to insurance payouts to support this work.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has successfully launched the first ever dedicated climate resilience bond, raising US$ 700 million with the issuance.

Nine multilateral development banks (MDBs) announced plans to increase the global climate action investments they support each year to US$ 175 billion by 2025.

27 countries pledge to replenish the Green Climate Fund (GCF) by USD 9.78 billion equivalent for the next four years.

The United Nations Global Compact welcomes the issuance in Europe of the first general-purpose SDG Linked Bond on 10th October 2019 by the multinational energy company Enel.

The Natural Capital Coalition has issued a call for Expressions of Interest in conducting a "Combining Forces" case study. The Combining Forces program aims to establish and promote a common and harmonized understanding of the different natural capital approaches used by businesses and governments, with the greater aim of ensuring that the value of nature is included in decision-making across the board.

Twenty-eight scientific papers were presented at the GGKP's Seventh Annual Conference (GGKP7), with a focus on scaling up renewable energy solutions. Three high-level panels – with representative from Denmark, the Philippines, Burkina Faso, Papua New Guinea, Colombia, Austria, the United Arab Emirates and elsewhere – spoke on successful approaches on achieving national economic growth and energy security objectives by scaling up clean energy.