The Third Environmental Performance Review of Bulgaria takes stock of progress made by the country in the management of its environment since 2007.
The Third Environmental Performance Review of Montenegro examines the progress made by the country in the management of its environment since the country was reviewed in 2007 for the second time.
One of the major contemporary challenges facing developing country firms, and especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), is the ever increasing number of regulations and sustainability standards required of them if they are to integrate into global value chains. The paper "The Role of Aid for Trade in Building the Capacity of Developing Country Firms to Meet Sustainability Standards" focuses on the potential role that Aid for Trade—aid designed specifically to assist developing countries in overcoming supply-side issues and capture the gains of trade—can play in assisting those developing country SMEs and small producers who are struggling to comply with the sustainability standards required by value chains.
The paper Decarbonizing Electricity Generation with Intermittent Sources of Energy examines public policies and technological solutions that aim to decarbonize electricity production by replacing fossil fuel energy by intermittent renewable sources, namelywind and solar power.
Private standard schemes have become a constitutive element of international commercial transactions, as well as powerful tools to mainstream environmental, social, and economic sustainability requirements in economic operations.