The report, Realising the Transformative Potential of the SDGs, examines the ability of the SDGs to actually trigger this transformation and to suggest some key actions to make the SDGs more transformative.
The Exploring Metrics to Measure the Climate Progress of Banks informs the ongoing debate about how public- and private-sector banks should assess and report on their contribution to the transition toward a low-carbon economy.
This paper, A Proposal for a Simple Methodology to Enhance Transparency and Comparability of NDC Targets and Their Progress Reporting under the Paris Agreement, proposes an approach to the design of the contents of reporting processes, addressing the issues of greenhouse gas measurement, reporting and verification (GHG MRV) for NDCs.
The Mitigating Drought Impacts in Drylands: Quantifying the potential for strengthening crop- and livestock-based livelihoods report covers how an original model was developed expressly to consistently and coherently evaluate different type of interventions on the ground, which provided a common framework to anticipate the scale of the challenges likely to arise in drylands, as well as to generate insights into opportunities for addressing those challenges.
Tracking SDG7: The energy progress report provides a global dashboard on progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7). The report is a joint effort of the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the World Bank, and the World Health Organization (WHO), which the United Nations (UN) has named as global custodian agencies, responsible for collecting and reporting on country-by-country energy indicators for reporting on SDG7.