This report explores how a number of African countries are designing systems to simultaneously achieve their climate targets and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Building on a study of Asian Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), the report takes an in-depth look at NDCs of seven African countries: Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic (CAR), Ghana, Malawi, Niger, Swaziland, and Zambia, and analyzes NDCs of several other African countries.
This report looks at why such a large share of coal power is struggling today and the drivers—including subsidies—that may cause similar crises in the future. In light of this, it sets out some broad proposals on the topic of “just transition,” which encourages governments to recognize stranded workers and communities as much as stranded private or public assets.
This report Measuring Fossil Fuel Subsidies in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals provides methodological guidance for measuring fossil fuel subsidies in the context of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 12.c.1: “Amount of fossil fuel subsidies per unit of GDP (production and consumption)”.
This series of articles takes a close look at the approach toward carbon pricing in several provinces and considers where things stand now that the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, struck in late 2016, has fallen apart.
The paper Closing in on the Holy Grail of World Trade: Using Blockchain to Expand Southeast Asia’s Trade assesses the ways in which blockchain and related digital ledger technologies are enhancing trade performance through improvements in supply chain management, customs procedures, and trade finance in Southeast Asia.