This guide serves to assist stakeholders in monitoring tree-based restoration, with a focus on trees outside forests, such as trees on agricultural and pastoral landscapes and within cities and towns—using a Collect Earth mapathon approach.
Resilience is the capacity to prepare for disruptions, recover from shocks, and grow from a disruptive experience. The World Bank Group has developed a Resilience Rating System that provides guidance and specific criteria to assess resilience along two complementary dimensions.
This study describes the state of play of the sustainability-related products and services market; establishes an inventory and classification of market actors, sustainability products and services available in the market; and analyses the use and quality of sustainability-related products and services by market participants. The study explores how the reliability and quality of assessment of sustainability-related data, ratings and research by third party providers can be enhanced and provides recommendations to stimulate demand and improve the quality of supply.
Part of the challenge of implementing green financial regulation is that there is currently very little analysis on green financial regulatory incentives. A crucial condition for achieving the 2° climate target is mobilizing capital for green investment. One estimate suggests a necessary cumulative investment of $36-$42 tn until 2030, or the equivalent of roughly $2 tn annually, to realize climate targets. Current investment levels however are only roughly $359 bn annually, giving rise to a 'green investment gap'. This study constitutes the first comprehensive overview of the range of instruments available to policymakers to align the financial sector with 2°investment scenarios.
There is no pathway to keep global warming to less than 1.5°C without abating emissions in industrial supply chains. This will require adequate data, and the best way to provide this is to standardize carbon accounting across the variety of protocols, platforms, and standards that exist today.