The State of Sustainable Markets 2019: Statistics and Emerging Trends provides a snapshot of substantial growth of sustainability standards for bananas, cocoa, coffee, cotton, oil palm, soybean, sugarcane, tea and forestry products.
Taxing Energy Use 2019 presents a snapshot of where countries stand in deploying energy and carbon taxes, tracks progress made, and makes actionable recommendations on how governments could do better. Tax rates and tax coverage are detailed by country, sector, energy source and tax type.
In line with the Central Bank of Hungary's Green Program launched in February 2019, the consultation document Green Finance in Hungary explores the opportunities and focus points of expanding the Hungarian green finance segment. It also identifies potential barriers to segment growth, and channels the views of market players and other stakeholders into the domestic public discourse within the broader realm of bank's efforts to help meet the Paris Climate Agreement's goals.
The manual Governing Infrastructure Regulators in Fragile Environments: Principles and implementation by the World Bank's purpose is to contribute to improvements in the quality of infrastructure regulation. It does so by identifying key principles for the governance of infrastructure regulators and by suggesting how these principles can be introduced successfully and maintained over time.
This 2018 edition of the Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks Climate Finance was prepared by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, together with partners the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank Group, the Islamic Development Bank and the World Bank Group.