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This report, City-Level Decoupling: Urban resource flows and the governance of infrastructure transitions applies the International Resource Panel report, Decoupling Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth to cities. The core argument of the Decoupling Report was that a transition to a green economy will depend on finding ways to sustain economic growth rates without escalating rates of resource use. To achieve this decoupling, appropriate sustainability-oriented innovation will need to be initiated, promoted and applied on a large scale. The report discusses some emerging trends within cities that demonstrate that it is possible to decouple urban development and rising rates of resource consumption, in other words, resource decoupling.

This paper, Institutional arrangements for reporting the use of market mechanisms under the enhanced transparency framework to avoid double counting, proposes three ways to enhance institutional arrangements for reporting, particularly reporting of market mechanisms to avoid double counting.

This briefing paper, Advancing Climate Action Under Argentina's G20 Presidency, provides an overview of the G20 working structure and agenda items relating to climate action, sustainable finance and infrastructure development under Argentina’s G20 Presidency. It presents specific options for G20 action and ambition in 2018.

The Managing a Sustainable Transition to a Low-carbon Society: The Socio-economic impacts of mitigation policies policy brief looks at how to identify and manage the expected and unintended socio-economic impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation policies.

This report titled Access to Environmental Information: A driver of accountable governance in Morocco and Tunisia? is a recent assessment in Morocco and Tunisia and reveals, governments and development partners can support access to environmental information and thereby accountable governance.