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This report aims to impart the conversations and takeaways discussed among key stakeholders in the Philadelphia community at the Philadelphia New Normal Forum, a virtual convention held in May 2020. Among the findings discussed in the Report are key challenges and opportunities identified along each of the Forum’s four discussion themes - City Infrastructure, Neighborhood Essentials, Inclusive Communities, and Intentional Investment. In its efforts to demonstrate SDG materiality and feasibility for multi-stakeholder implementation, the report takes an intermediate step of mapping identified challenges and opportunities to specific UN SDG targets, as well as goals identified in Philadelphia’s comprehensive plan for growth and development, also known as Philadelphia2035. 

This report reviews examples of policies, regulatory frameworks, utility programmes or other initiatives that have implemented the Efficiency First(E1st) principles in practice.

This 2018 edition of the Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks Climate Finance was prepared by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, together with partners the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank Group, the Islamic Development Bank and the World Bank Group.

This assessment, Global Environment Outlook 6: Regional assessment for North America , was carried out in order to characterize the priority environmental issues, states and trends in the region in a systematic, evidence-based manner, as input into the sixth iteration of UNEP’s flagship Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) process.

Vancouver has long been a source for disruptive innovation and today VEC’s State of Vancouver’s Green Economy 2018 report highlights over 200 leading green businesses – and the policies, innovation and culture – that have catalyzed our $31.5 billion brand.