This report highlights processes that contribute to the circular economy shift by retaining the value of the products within the system through the extension of their useful life. It quantifies the current-state and potential impacts associated with the inclusion of different value-retention processes by applying them to a series of products within three industrial sectors. The report also highlights the different barriers faced in the implementation of the processes.
This paper Putting a Price on Carbon: Evaluating A Carbon Price and Complementary Policies for a 1.5° World compares what recent empirical evidence and modeling efforts tell us about the effectiveness of a carbon price in reducing emissions and shifting to low-carbon technologies with what deep decarbonization studies state regarding the pathways for meeting climate goals.
Involvement of the private sector is critical in the global commitment to fight climate change as a means to increase the amount of financial flows into mitigation and adaptation projects, which is particularly necessary in the greater Middle East. However, the current lack of data concerning international private climate finance is a significant obstacle for fully capturing the state of total climate finance in the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan (MENA) region, and therefore limits the ability of governments to make informed choices in their attempts of scaling up climate finance. This UfM study aims at providing a better understanding of the required steps for achieving a complete picture of international private climate finance flows in the MENA region, by assessing the opportunities and limitations of the available data and methodologies, as well as laying out the current barriers for tracking and mobilising international private climate finance in the region.
This report is a part of the effort by the UfM Secretariat to obtain a better overview of climate finance flows to the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEMed) region in recent years. More precisely, the aim of this study is to analyse international public climate finance flows to fifteen SEMed countries, and to provide an overview on these individual countries’ shares of the 100 billion USD climate finance pledge under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The paper presents a joint estimation of willingness to pay for conservation activities aimed to preserve the flow of ecosystem services provided by a marine protected area network and respondents´ personal discount rate using a contingent valuation survey.