The Yearbook of Global Climate Action 2018 provides an overview of the major events, initiatives and reports of the past year and reviews progress achieved.
This report, Carbon Markets for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction in a Warming World: An evaluation of the World Bank group’s support to carbon finance, evaluates the World Bank Group's role and contributions to carbon finance. It provides an overview of carbon markets, the changing dynamics the markets are operating within, and Bank Group's perspective on the future of carbon financing.
This briefing, Harnessing Long-Term Strategies for Low-Carbon Climate-Resilient LDC Development, makes the case for why LDCs in particular should prepare their long-term strategies early. It also discusses incentives to support and rationalise doing so ahead of 2020.
This working paper, Climate Stability, Worker Stability: Are they compatible?, addresses the dilemma inherent within a low-carbon transition. The transition away from fossil fuels is a necessary part of climate change mitigation, yet that entails losing traditional energy sector jobs. How can this be done justly and what role, if any, do broader societal trends have in this discussion?
This report, Soil and Nutrients Loss in Malawi: An economic assessment, analyses the economic impact of both soil and nutrient loss in Malawi with new country representative data on soil and nutrients loss.