This briefing looks at the Adaptation, Vulnerability and Ecosystems Project in El Salvador; through it the authors explore how to judge EbA effectiveness and discuss some of the policy, institutional and capacity-related hurdles — and opportunities — to rolling out EbA more fully across the country.
The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture provides an assessment of biodiversity for food and agriculture (BFA) and its management worldwide, and describes the many contributions that BFA makes to food security and nutrition, livelihoods, and the resilience of production systems; the major drivers of change affecting BFA; the status and trends of various components of BFA; and needs and challenges in BFA management.
Beyond the Gap: How Countries Can Afford the Infrastructure They Need while Protecting the Planet aims to shift the debate regarding investment needs away from a simple focus on spending more and toward a focus on spending better on the right objectives, using relevant metrics. It does so by offering a careful and systematic approach to estimating the funding needs to close the service gaps in water and sanitation, transportation, electricity, irrigation, and flood protection.
This article, Role of Regional Carbon Markets in Article 6.2 of Paris Agreement, covers a high-level analysis of the role of regional carbon markets in the emerging draft text on Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement.
The discussion paper, National Benefits of Climate Reporting, intends to highlight benefits that a country can obtain through transparent and ambitious climate reporting and a robust and self-sustained Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) system, which go beyond the obvious benefit of fulfilling current and future reporting requirements under the UNFCCC. By highlighting the national benefits that are less visible at first glance, the discussion paper seeks to enhance the understanding of policy-makers and other stakeholders as to why transparency and MRV for climate reporting has merits of its own, and how countries may tap such national benefits. To this end, the discussion paper identifies and describes a number of such national benefits and provides concrete experiences and examples from various countries.