National development is of utter importance for countries like Guyana where social and economic needs take precedence over anything else. To reconcile the world's need for forests to kept be intact then Guyana should make deforestation a complementary objective to enhance national development. The paper Creating Incentives to Avoid Deforestation is focussed on how the UNFCCC process can create the incentives to make this complementarity possible.

Produced in 2010 Guyana's REDD+ Governance Development Plan indicated key activities to be carried out, time-frame for implementation and lead agencies responsible for each of the indicated activities. The June 2011 version of the REDD+ Governance Development Plan provides updates from the previous version and it includes progress made on improving forest governance during 2009 and 2010.

On 11 January 2019 (1:15-2:00 PM CET), the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is holding a workshop on Gender Equality, Social Inclusion, and the Shift to Green Growth – Making it happen at the PAGE Ministerial Conference 2019 - Advancing Inclusive and Sustainable Economies. The event panelists will share their visions and approaches to inclusive green growth. The event will also serve to premiere GGGI’s short film, Green Growth for Gender Equality: Promoting Poverty Reduction and Social Inclusion.

Issued to address the growing concerns about the predominance of imported fossil fuels in the country's energy sector, and increase the efficiency and sustainability of energy supply and demand the document National Sustainable Energy Policy was prepared as the part of the Sustainable Energy Framework of Barbados and is now being subjected to thorough review and update.

Undertaken over three rounds (April 2015, July 2015 and February 2015) the final report Waste Characterization Study for Barbados 2015 assesses the composition and quantity of the municipal solid waste (MSW) generated in Barbados and any changes which might have occurred in the respective periods.

Resulted from the consulting project between Barbados Ministry of Environment and Drainage and Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) the report Consultancy for the Development of a Route Optimization Study in Solid Waste Collection in Barbados studies route optimization and determine the improvement points for the solid waste collection process and systems in Barbados.

On 17-18 January 2019, the World Bank and EMBARQ, the sustainable mobility initiative of WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities are holding Transforming Transportation 2019 on the theme of "Will New Mobility Deliver Sustainable Transport for All?" at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC.

Formulated to present in the third international conference on small island developing states Barbados National Assessment Report: The third international conference on small island developing states delivers the progress, gaps and current challenges faced by Barbados in the national implementation of Mauritius strategy for further implementation (MSI) of the Barbados Programme of Action (BPOA).

2016 Report on the State of the Environment in China gives a summary of environmental protection status in China. It provides information on atmospheric, freshwater, marine, forest, acoustic, radiation, grassland, and natural and ecological environment. The current state of the energy and transport sector is also included in this report.

2017 Report on the State of the Ecology and Environment in China contains information about the overall improvements China made in terms of ecological aspects. The report suggests that China has made an immense improvement in air, water, and soil pollution prevention control and promotion of environmental protection. With the aim to pursue green development China is reinforcing environmental supervision and law enforcement and has deepened and implemented measures on ecological environmental protection reform.