The study China's National Emissions Trading Scheme: Integrating cap, coverage and allocation explains the approach implemented in China's national Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to integrate its cap, coverage, and allocation. The combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches is designed in a way that it addresses China's economic, technical and bargaining costs issues. Furthermore, it also discusses the challenges of the implementation of this combined approach and puts forward the relevant policy suggestions.
What is Driving Changes in Local GHG Emissions?: Results from contribution analysis presents results from applying a new technique called Contribution Analysis to three sets of local community greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory data in the US.
This report, Global Value Chain Policy Series: Environment, presents some preliminary thoughts and recommendations on the linkages between environmental protection and global value chains (GVCs).
Aligning Investments with the Paris Agreement Temperature Goal: Challenges and opportunities for multilateral development banks proposes a definition of alignment with the Paris temperature goal and reviews decision-making tools for assessing alignment and shifting portfolios used by seven major multilateral development banks.
Resource efficiency is a key approach to decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation while enhancing human well-being. It stimulates innovation, the creation of new industries, and boosts economic competitiveness. Ultimately, it is good not only for the environment but also for the economy.
Resource efficiency is both a requirement and an opportunity for sustained economic prosperity in G20 countries - a dynamic group of leading economies with a diverse set of visions and approaches for sustainable development, and member states all over the world. The collective impact of this group could drive large-scale transformation in a direction that can lead us to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.