Browse Research

If the Paris Agreement is to be implemented successfully, it is necessary that all actors step up their actions, including non-state actors such as businesses, cities, regions, and investors. While transparency is crucial, it is still largely missing from the drive to report on current actions and scale them up. The Climate Initiatives Platform (CIP) is a vital transparency tool for international cooperative climate initiatives (ICIs). Nearly 250 initiatives, driven mainly by non-state actors, are currently displayed by the CIP. More than 50 data points for each ICI are provided. In addition, CIP has become the exclusive data provider for ICIs to the UNFCCC Global Climate Action portal, NAZCA, and CIP data are used for several climate assessments, including UN Environment’s Emissions Gap Report.

This review takes stock of progress made by Bosnia and Herzegovina in the management of its environment since 2010. It covers issues of importance to the country related to legal and policy frameworks, greening the economy, air protection, forestry, water and waste management, biodiversity and protected areas and protection of the Adriatic Sea.

This paper reviews debates and practice around the conventional and alternative measures of economic well-being. Evaluating the major contending measures – the Genuine Progress Indicator, Human Development Index, Happiness/life evaluation index, Happy Planet Index, the OECD’s Better Life Initiative dashboard – the paper argues that the GPI is the only indicator that incorporates care for human beings and care for the environment in a single framework and is therefore best suited to guide policy in responding to the major challenges of our time – rising inequality, climate change, environmental destruction.

Nordic Green to Scale 2 analyses the potential of scaling up existing climate solutions in two regions: the Baltic countries, Poland and Ukraine in Europe; and Kenya and Ethiopia in East Africa. This report reflects the study results for the five European target countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the Ukraine). Ten different solutions have been selected out of those included in the two previous studies as particularly promising for that region. The analysis covers emission reduction potential, costs and savings as well as cobenefits of scaling up the selected solutions.

This report looks at the emerging concept of “Blue BioTrade”— a new tool to promote sustainability and equity focused on marine-based products and services. It describes how the application of the Blue BioTrade concept can promote sustainable and equitable economic sectors and value chains that rely on marine and coastal resources, and includes a proposal for implementing a Blue BioTrade approach.