This paper compiles findings from a series of reports that unpack existing US and European policies related to just transition. To help policymakers identify the components of a comprehensive just transition policy package, more than 100 policies have been grouped into four primary categories.
This report provides an analysis of water governance in the country and policy recommendations to: strengthen the multi sectoral approach to water; improve the use of economic instruments to protect and sustainably use water resources, its sources and related ecosystem services; and strengthen regulatory conditions to improved access to safe drinking water and sanitation in urban and rural areas.
Following the US Presidential election and the Net Zero China 2060 target in particular the “inevitability” of policy Response to climate change looks validated. Exactly what, when, and how remains the issue. The PRI has updated the core Policy Forecasts and considered potential accelerations as well as implications for Investors. As net-zero commitments accelerate across the globe, the new IPR 2021 Policy Forecasts outline the policies that are expected to be deployed by 2025 to begin meeting those targets. It offers markets the crucial next layer of detail on when, where, and how these commitments will start to shift the macroeconomic context through forceful policy implementation across a range of key policy levers.
The 2021 Financing for Sustainable Development Report (FSDR) of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development warns that COVID-19 could lead to a lost decade for development. The report highlights the risk of a sharply diverging world in the near term where the gaps between rich and poor widen because some countries lack the necessary financial resources to combat the COVID-19 crisis and its socioeconomic impact. Short-term risks are compounded by growing systemic risks that threaten to further derail progress, such as climate change. The report recommends immediate actions to prevent this scenario and put forward solutions to mobilize investments in people and in infrastructure to rebuild better. It also lay outs reforms for the global financial and policy architecture to ensure that it is supportive of a sustainable and resilient recovery and aligned with the 2030 Agenda.
In this working paper, a review has been carried out of the current mobilisation of capital and what has been achieved with regard to the SDG targets.