Come Together - Raising climate ambition in the first NDC update cycle amidst a global health crisis

The 2020 NDC Update report discusses countries’ preparedness to ratchet up ambition in the first NDC update cycle amidst a global health crisis. It discusses the progress of NDC implementation since 2015, expectations for the NDC update cycle, progress on the development of LTSs, and the potential impact of COVID-19 on climate planning.

Embracing green growth in cities is one urgent priority for addressing the environment and climate emergency. In this report, GGGI address some of the challenges and opportunities in achieving green growth in cities.

This report reviews review Green Deal experiences following the 2008-2009 global financial crisis and provides recommendations on how to design recovery packages that combine COVID-19 recovery with climate action.

This report provides an update on the deployment of blended finance in LDCs. It also analyses its potential role in helping those countries recover from the COVID-19 crisis, and provides an Action Agenda for unlocking capital for the achievement of the SDGs in LDCs, as called for in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda.

This manual provides policymakers with a methodology for conducting a review of a country’s Inclusive Green Economy Policy framework, to take the pulse of the concept and related policies 10 years after the work on UNEP’s Green Economy report was launched.