This technical note tests a novel data collection approach that relies on crowdsourcing data from multinational enterprises with operations across many geographies. This is eventually intended to allow effective response to water crises, providing empirical, comparable, global information on the state of public water management.
As more COVID-19 recovery measures emerge and rhetoric about the need to build forward better grows louder in the policy space, instruments to assess the scope, scale and quality of concrete “green” measures are only emerging. This first briefing features a spotlight on monitoring hubs that have been set up, including the Energy Policy Tracker, Green Stimulus Index, IMF Policy Tracker, OECD Country Policy Tracker, Carbon Brief green recovery measures tracker, and the World Bank's COVID-19 data hub.
This report investigates whether Europe can be considered as living within our planetary boundaries.
This study by the World Bank discusses the International Transfer Readiness (ITR) module as starting point for identifying gaps and capacity building needs to develop the necessary institutional framework and infrastructure for climate markets under the Paris Agreement, and key messages from ITR results.
This report presents a snapshot of some of the latest information available on how COVID-19 is affecting the world at the point of publishing.