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This IIED briefing provides an overview of the adaptation dimensions required under the Global Stocktake and of progress to date to define these.

This first OECD Environmental Performance Review of Lithuania evaluates progress the country has made towards green growth and sustainable development, with a special chapter focusing on sustainable mobility.

This report reviews countries’ policy actions with regards to the mandate provided by a United Nations Environment Assembly resolution on preventing and reducing air pollution to improve air quality globally.

This report analyses and compares the low-carbon city policies and practices of China, Japan and South Korea, with the goal of identifying sector-specific and city-specific good practices that may be instructive to researchers and policymakers in the wider North-East Asia region.

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are generally small in population and land area, with fragile ecologies, and face diverse and distinct development trajectories. Many SIDS face common structural and fiscal development challenges including lack of economic diversification, inadequate social protections and inclusion, heavy debt and overdependency on imported fossil fuels. Further, their small size and geographies make SIDS extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

UNDP’s integrated SIDS offer Rising Up for SIDS articulates a clear strategy to respond to their most pressing needs as well as bring forth innovative solutions to the complex developmental challenges they face for a better future for people and planet. It acts as a vehicle for recovery committing to enhancing current support in areas of climate action, blue economy and digital transformation, with innovative development finance as an enabling cross-cutting area