This paper provides an integrated framework to design an economic recovery strategy aligned with sustainability objectives through a multi-criterion, multi-stakeholder lens. The aim is to enable decisions by policy makers with the aid of transparent workflows that include expert evidence that is based on quantitative open-source modeling, and qualitative input by diverse social actors in a participatory approach.
This report discusses why green innovation is essential, the enormous economic as well as environmental opportunities that it represents, and how it might be achieved. It highlights key challenges in five priority sectors (resources and waste, construction, water, food, transport of goods) and provides recommendations for policy makers and businesses.
The report ‘Passing Gas: Why Renewables are the Future’ explores the Government’s pledge to the gas industry and uncovers some unsavoury truths: that emissions from gas are under-reported, that the second biggest user of gas in Australia is the gas industry itself, that the international gas market is in crisis and Australia is dangerously exposed to job losses and price volatility.
This study shows that combining the twin agendas of circular economy and climate mitigation gets us on a path to a well below 2-degree world by 2032.
The UNEP Global Climate Litigation Report: 2020 Status Review provides an overview of the current state of climate change litigation globally, as well as an assessment of global climate change litigation trends.