This Report Low Carbon Cities: Exploring new crediting approaches to deliver Carbon and Climate Finance discussed that by 2050, two-thirds of the planet’s population will live in urban centers, and nearly 90 percent of the 2.5 billion new urban dwellers will live in Africa and Asia. The world’s urban areas were responsible for around 70 percent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2013, and that number could grow by 50 percent by 2050 if current trends continue.
This book provides a way forward to embark on a Blue Urban Agenda that is sensitive to the unique characteristics of SIDS and their commitments in the Small Island Developing States Accelerated Modalities of Action (Samoa Pathway) resolution, COP21, the Sustainable Development Goals, and Habitat III.
This Country Planning Framework (CPF) sets the strategic direction for the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in Peru over the period 2017-2021.
This paper Global Resources Outlook 2019 presents the story of natural resources as they move through our economies and societies. It is a story of relentless demand and of unsustainable patterns of industrialization and development.
This assessment, Global Environment Outlook 6: Regional assessment for Latin America and the Caribbean , identifies the main environmental changes that have been observed in the region since GEO-5 (2012) and GEO LAC 3 (2010); and considers priorities for action within the overall framework of the new 2030 sustainability agenda.