This Urban Adaptation Finance Tracking brief identifies gaps and barriers to financing resilience solutions in global urban areas and highlights entry points to drive action by investors, cities, national governments, and other stakeholders to increase urban adaptation finance.
The year 2020 is a year unlike any other, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to severely hit countries, resulting in more than 70 million infected people globally, a million deaths, millions of unemployed people, and trillions of dollars pulled-out for emergency stimulus packages to rescue the economies. The full impact of the pandemic is still expanding and governments are under immense pressure not only to invest in COVID-19 recovery packages while facing budget shortfalls, rising debt, and declining tax revenues, but also to “green” these investments.
The India Energy Outlook 2021 is a new special report from the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook series. The report explores the opportunities and challenges ahead for India as it seeks to ensure reliable, affordable and sustainable energy to a growing population.
The report presents three routes to guide government responses towards a transformative economic reactivation, including sustainable development, decarbonisation, and governance. Additionally, it presents 57 public policy recommendations for eight sectors, spanning both rural and urban contexts, in order to pave the way towards a transformative reactivation in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This report provides an assessment of where African countries stand with respect to the SDGs and their progress towards achieving them. It also includes a preliminary analysis of the impact of COVID‑19 on the SDGs in Africa.