Broadening the Dialogue: Exploring alternative futures to inform climate action covers critical drivers that are likely to shape the next few decades, plausible future scenarios and the opportunities for decarbonisation, and how different climate action strategies may fare in an uncertain future.
Belize is exceptionally vulnerable to natural disasters and climate change. This report, Belize: Climate Change Policy Assessment, takes stock of Belize’s plans to manage its climate response, from the perspective of their macroeconomic and fiscal implications. It suggests macroeconomically relevant reforms that could strengthen the likelihood of success of the national strategy and identifies policy gaps and resource needs.
Bonds and Climate Change: The state of the market in 2018 presents the findings of Climate Bonds Initiative’s research of climate-aligned issuers, conducted between April and June 2018. It identifies issuers who generate at least 75% of their revenues from ‘green’ business and looks at the diversity of bond structures used in the green bond market.
Forests play an important role in producing and regulating freshwater flows, and forested watersheds are essential for sustaining freshwater supply. Forests and Water: Valuation and payments for forest ecosystem services assesses the governance, design and funding sources of various payments for watershed services (PWS) schemes, and promotes the understanding of a wide range of values related to watershed services of forests and its co-benefits, such as carbon mitigation.
The steps set out in this document enable a company to decide whether it wishes to make the transition to activities that deliver a Net Gain for Biodiversity (BNG) - or at least No Net Loss - and how to get there.