This resource examines how energy efficiency investments can boost economic growth in COVID-19 response and rebuilding efforts. It examines three categories of energy efficiency investments for governments to consider in their economic stimulus packages to either enhance existing programmes or develop new ones.

This policy brief reviews ongoing challenges and proposes measures to protect production and income of the fisheries and aquaculture sector as well as maintain operations and support the supply chain.

This policy brief aim is to inform policymakers on options for mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on food and agriculture, with attention to smallholders’ access to markets. It builds on lessons learned from previous pandemics and prices volatility crisis.
This analysis contains a brief description of the mass flows in building construction, a presentation of the (legal) framework conditions, a collection of the relevant terminology and an overview of the state-of-the-art in the demolition of buildings.
The special COVID-19 market report reveals that while demand for repo subsequently increased significantly during the height of the crisis in February/March, dealers’ capacity to intermediate that demand was relatively constrained, limiting access to many firms that needed it.