As the world’s only crowdsourced report on renewable energy, the Renewables 2021 Global Status Report, published by the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) covers policies, markets and more, while telling the most up-to-date global story on renewable energy.
This paper presents a roadmap for how the textile and clothing industry in the Netherlands can become more circular by 2050, with a deep dive into a circular scenario focused on 'reuse' that could maximize opportunities for employment and skills development.
The World Investment Report supports policymakers by monitoring global and regional investment trends and national and international policy developments. This year’s report reviews investment in the Sustainable Development Goals and shows the influence of investment policies on public health and economic recovery from the pandemic.
Flood and drought disasters impose a huge toll: Over the last two decades, at least 1.65 billion people have been affected by floods and 1.43 billion by droughts. A new perspective, referred to as an "EPIC Response," is offered to better manage hydro-climatic risks: This perspective looks at floods and droughts not as independent events but rather as different ends of the same hydro-climatic spectrum that are inextricably linked.
Efforts to protect and restore nature have overlooked the biggest single factor in biodiversity loss: the world’s inefficient and irresponsible use of natural resources. This report can help policymakers look to natural resource management approaches to address the drivers of biodiversity loss for climate, nature and socially just economic and social development.