The paper Business models for decent work contributes to addressing the gap by examining business models being supported by market systems programmes. It sets out to better understand what business models look like in reality and the practical challenges facing project implementers and their partners.
The report looks at urbanisation trends across emerging and developing economies in Africa; Asia and the Pacific; emerging Europe, Central Asia and the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean; and Latin America and the Caribbean.
The report Growing in Circles: Climate-ready, resilient, resource-efficient and equitable cities summarises the results of applying recommendations set out in the Weight of Cities report by the International Resource Panel. This summary report describes the original work that has been developed by the Global Initiative for Resource Efficient Cities (GI-REC) to identify and test promising approaches and tools in pilot cities around the world, especially in the global south.
The 2019 Asia and the Pacific Renewable Energy Status Report provides a comprehensive overview of renewable energy developments in the world’s largest and fastest growing region, covering 18 selected countries across five sub-regions.
The sixth edition of IRENA's yearly report Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review 2019 provides the latest available estimates and calculations on renewable energy employment.