This assessment, Global Environment Outlook 6: Regional assessment for Asia and the Pacific , analyzes key environmental themes on air, land, biota and ecosystems, freshwater, coasts and oceans, and waste using the drivers-pressures-state-impact-response (DPSIR) framework, shows accelerating environmental degradation widely across the region and its impact on human wellbeing.
The 2018 Global Green Economy Index™ (GGEI) measures the green economy performance of 130 countries and how experts assess that performance.
This guidebook, Designing Accreditation and Verification Systems: A Guide to ensuring credibility for carbon pricing instruments, aims to help regulators to better understand their options in designing a carbon pricing verification system tailored to their specific needs and circumstances.
This paper, Policy Trade-Offs in Building Resilience to Natural Disasters: The Case of St. Lucia, uses a dynamic general equilibrium model that incorporates natural disasters to assess the macroeconomic impact of financial protection and structural protection, and the associated policy trade-offs.
This policy brief, India's Energy Transition: The Impact of the goods and services tax on solar photovoltaic and coal power costs, assesses the impact of India's Goods and Services Tax (GST) on energy source preferences and the cost of energy production. The introduction of the GST appears to provide a relative bias in favour of coal-based power.