Frontiers 2018/19: Emerging issues of environmental concern consolidates and analyzes the emerging issues that will have profound effects on our society, economy, and environment.
This document presents lessons learned from over twenty Climate Public Expenditure and Institutional Reviews, a key tool for country decision-makers to improve their understanding of how and how much they are spending on their national climate change responses, and to identify public programmes with climate change objectives or co-benefits in which governments are investing.
This report, 1.5-Degree Lifestyles: Targets and options for reducing lifestyle carbon footprints, analyses the carbon footprint of household lifestyles and how changes can contribute to meeting the ambitious 1.5-degree aspirational target envisaged by the Paris Agreement on climate change. It analyses scientific emission scenarios and case studies from Finland, Japan, China, Brazil, and India, and proposes long-term targets for individuals’ lifestyle carbon footprints by 2030-2050, as well as low-carbon options that citizens and society can adopt.
The report outlines policy tools that national governments can use to encourage an efficient, effective and equitable response to ongoing coastal change. It is informed by new analysis on the future costs of sea-level rise, and the main findings from four case studies (Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the United Kingdom).
Hard Choices, Integrated Approaches: A guidance note on climate change financing frameworks serves as an introductory guide for stakeholders on how to create or refine a Climate Change Financing Framework (CCFF) – a strategic, whole-of-government plan to better manage, mobilize and target climate finance.