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This research describes the systemic interconnections that drive our modern world and impact the global climate, and explain why a holistic, integrated perspective is required to solve the most pressing societal issues we face today.

There is no solution to the growing climate and nature crisis the world faces without a solution to deforestation. Currently, two thirds of tropical deforestation is driven by agricultural expansion to produce commodities such as soy, palm oil, timber, and beef. Over the last decade leading companies, financial institutions and governments took on ambitious commitments to address deforestation in their supply chains and financing by 2020. But by the start of 2020 – the year the problem was to have been all but resolved – even the leaders have fallen well short of their targets, and tropical primary forest loss had increased by 44% since the signing of the landmark New York Declaration on Forests, announced by the Secretary General at the UN General Assembly in 2014.

This document provides results for 15 developing and emerging market economies in (Taxing Energy Use for Sustainable Development: Opportunities for energy tax and subsidy reform in selected developing and emerging economies) TEU-SD include data and indicators to support carbon pricing reforms in the 15 TEU-SD countries, and compares their macro-economic and policy context to OECD countries.

This report utilised a number of data sources, including public and private CDP disclosure data, information retrieved from company sustainability reports and websites, other publicly available data related to global emissions figures and market capitalisation, and data collected by the SBTi.

This paper proposes a dashboard based on the two core planetary boundaries of climate change and nature loss. It demonstrates that a sustainability transformation through which we rebuild our world differently with nature is humanity’s best bet for the coming decades.