This report, which is based on 20+ interviews with investors and other stakeholders, explores the reasons for the slow progress of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) integration in infrastructure investments by private investors and evaluates the emerging field of publicly available tools that seek to make the sustainability impacts on and from infrastructure projects tangible for investors.
This study analyses the employment impacts of different plans for expanding electricity generation in South Africa’s power sector. It presents the resulting employment effects within the electricity sector, primarily focusing on coal and renewable energy sources.
This guidebook reviews the evidence of the contributions of voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) to gender equality and women’s empowerment in agriculture, explains how VSSs can be used as a tool to meet related components of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and provides recommendations for development organisations.
This guide is intended to assist researchers in developing a plan for a research study on Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA). The objectives are to strengthen the understanding of EbA core concepts, identify current and prevailing knowledge gaps and research needs for EbA, and provide insights on where potential research should be focused for future knowledge generation.
This paper, Infrastructure for Sustainable Development, analyses the role of infrastructure in directly and indirectly impacting progress on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and provides evidence of both the threat and opportunity infrastructure presents to reaching the global goals.