The discussion paper Transforming the Financial System for Delivering Sustainable Development: A high-level overview provides the outline of the challenges and opportunities in delivering the 2030 Agenda and Paris Agreement and commitments, and sets out the essential role financial systems could play.
Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Environmental sustainability and employment in Latin America and the Caribbean analyses the performance of the region's labour markets in 2017 and presents multiple policy proposals to promote decent work and labor-driven environmental sustainability.
The paper Transboundary Impacts of Climate Change in Asia: Making a case for regional adaptation planning and cooperation aims to address the transboundary impacts of climate change. It emphasizes the significance of regional cooperation to strengthen the collective adaptation solutions to address the impacts of climate change on transboundary natural resources and other teleconnections.
Energy Safety Nets: A literature review, assesses the evidence available on the experience of using social assistance to enable poor people in developing countries to access modern energy services.
Proactive policies to protect and restore the health of the world’s coral reefs could generate a substantial economic gain, provide important societal benefits, including to local communities, and help deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This study presents new analysis of the value, costs and benefits of the coral reef economy to highlight that shifting the trajectory of coral reef health from one of continuing decline towards a healthy state could unlock tens of billions of dollars in additional value.