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This series of factsheet (in Spanish) from UNEP provides guidelines on how to deal with COVID-19 related wastes and provides alternative information needed to assess the problem.

This paper and the model that underlies it are one step in the process of gaining a nuanced, market-specific understanding of challenges related to carbon emissions, energy markets, investment and employment in terms of past performance as well as future opportunities for the 2020

This report explores the connection between municipalities pursuing circular economy policy and investments in circular business that create jobs.

This I4CE study analyses the different objectives that regulators can pursue to help the financial sector respond to the climate urgency, and provides an overview of the instruments at their disposal.

Overview

This handbook offers and insight of the inner workings of the innovative mechanisms “Citizen Finance” and attempts to serve as a practical guidance for local and regional stakeholders. Citizen Finance is not a standardized mechanism for funding climate action projects and initiatives, rather it could be seen in terms of a practice. However, there have been several examples where citizen finance has been used for adequately funding Sustainable Energy and Climate Action projects. In broad terms, Citizen Finance is a form of financing instruments where citizens pool their financial resources to fund initiatives that create common goods. The two most common and relatively advanced forms of Citizen Finance are: (1) Crowdfunding and (2) Financing through cooperatives. These two forms of Citizen Finance will be the focus of this module. The module also provides step-by-step guidelines on how projects can be financed and what can be learned from the best practices and case studies in the European Union.

Module objective

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