This reference document outlines the EU's vision and approach towards a green economic transition. It aims at promoting a better understanding of the green economy, giving policy and operational guidance, and presenting best practices. In also provides definitions and explains the rationale for cooperation on the green economy in line with EU policies and the growing interest in partner countries.
The study China's National Emissions Trading Scheme: Integrating cap, coverage and allocation explains the approach implemented in China's national Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to integrate its cap, coverage, and allocation. The combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches is designed in a way that it addresses China's economic, technical and bargaining costs issues. Furthermore, it also discusses the challenges of the implementation of this combined approach and puts forward the relevant policy suggestions.
What is Driving Changes in Local GHG Emissions?: Results from contribution analysis presents results from applying a new technique called Contribution Analysis to three sets of local community greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory data in the US.
Economic and Financial Challenges to Scaling Up Sustainable Cocoa Production in Côte d’Ivoire proposes technical and financial solutions to scaling up sustainable cocoa production models that incentivise and support new production approaches at all levels of the cocoa production chain. These solutions were developed on the basis of the pilot experiences of three actors in the cocoa sector.
This paper Triggering Green Transformation of the Private Sector Through Central Bank-led Initiatives: The role of Bangladesh Bank in mainstreaming green finance in Bangladesh presents a diagnostic assessment of the initiatives undertaken by Bangladesh's central bank to disburse green finance to the private sector. It also proposes a functional conceptualization of the term "green finance" for the national context and spells out a number of recommendations for triggering a green transformation of the private sector through central bank-led initiatives in Bangladesh.