This policy brief Making Infrastructure Resource Efficient identifies a critical need to decouple economic growth from the extraction and use of natural resources. Increasing the resource efficiency of infrastructure can be a major driver of the transition to sustainable development.
This paper responds to the global discourse around the need to decarbonize the world’s building stock by 2050 in order to meet global climate goals. It aims to provide clear, feasible policy pathways by which developing countries can achieve net zero carbon buildings (ZCBs) in their cities. The paper provides a starting point for urban decision-makers who are interested in understanding the wide range of policy options available to them.
The Protecting our World Heritage, Insuring a Sustainable Future is the first-ever global insurance industry guide highlighting the increasingly important role that the industry needs to play in protecting World Heritage Sites. It explains the risks that insurers face, the role of key actors in the insurance industry, and provides practical tools and a set of basic and advanced recommendations that insurers can implement in their risk management, insurance and investment activities to protect World Heritage Sites, while reducing carbon emissions, building resilience to climate change impacts and tackling biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation.
The report Unbreakable: Building the resilience of the poor in the face of natural disasters moves beyond asset and production losses and shifts its attention to how natural disasters affect people’s well-being. Disasters are far greater threats to well-being than traditional estimates suggest. This approach provides a more nuanced view of natural disasters than usual reporting, and a perspective that takes fuller account of poor people’s vulnerabilities. Poor people suffer only a fraction of economic losses caused by disasters, but they bear the brunt of their consequences.
Taxing Energy Use 2019 presents a snapshot of where countries stand in deploying energy and carbon taxes, tracks progress made, and makes actionable recommendations on how governments could do better. Tax rates and tax coverage are detailed by country, sector, energy source and tax type.