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Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are generally small in population and land area, with fragile ecologies, and face diverse and distinct development trajectories. Many SIDS face common structural and fiscal development challenges including lack of economic diversification, inadequate social protections and inclusion, heavy debt and overdependency on imported fossil fuels. Further, their small size and geographies make SIDS extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

UNDP’s integrated SIDS offer Rising Up for SIDS articulates a clear strategy to respond to their most pressing needs as well as bring forth innovative solutions to the complex developmental challenges they face for a better future for people and planet. It acts as a vehicle for recovery committing to enhancing current support in areas of climate action, blue economy and digital transformation, with innovative development finance as an enabling cross-cutting area

 

This report examines the role of investors in driving positive health outcomes.

This factsheet analyses the scientific basis of climate targets by G20 companies. While there is a strong appetite for decarbonization, setting self-defined emissions reductions targets is not enough.

This Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) research provides the latest data on biodiversity-relevant economic instruments, such as taxes, fees and charges, tradable permits, and environmentally motivated subsidies, providing incentives to producers and consumers to behave in a more environmentally sustainable way

This analysis compares the national recovery and resilience plans of Germany and Italy, two countries that have very different views and priorities on how their allocation of the recovery funds should be spent and invested over the short, medium and long term.