This technical report examines the nexus between product-service systems and sustainable public procurement, drawing together international experience.
This report highlights inequalities and vulnerabilities that have amplified the impact of the pandemic in Asia and the Pacific and emphasizes the need for a focus on people centered development, sustainability, and climate change issues. It considers the role that digitalization has played in helping the region manage the pandemic, and the need for more inclusive digital transformation.
This report reviews the full range of policies and initiatives that an ideal green central bank would adopt across four categories: Research and Advocacy, Monetary Policy, Financial Policy, and Leading by Example.
In this report we identifies seven key investment areas for China’s zero-carbon transition: resource recycling, energy efficiency, demand-side electrification, zero-carbon power generation, energy storage, hydrogen, and digitalization.
Companies play a key role in ending deforestation because their revenues depend on commodities that cause it. As a key source of demand for these commodities, they are also able to influence how they are produced and drive change at scale. In order to increase the scale and speed to end deforestation, right mix of solutions is needed - with collaboration and transparency at the heart of it. Ambitious collective action on deforestation is needed to achieve global climate goals, curb biodiversity loss and manage pandemic risks.