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This report, Beyond Crop per Drop: Assessing agricultural water productivity and efficiency in a maturing water economy, aims to shed further light on conceptual issues as, the methods used for measuring agricultural water productivity and efficiency, and the application of these concepts and methods in different contexts—all of which influence the choice of interventions and the evaluation of their implementation.

The Role of Trade Policy in Enabling the Global Diffusion of Electric Vehicles identifies and explains trade-related issues and knowledge gaps related to the scale-up and global deployment of electric vehicles. This includes the impact of various types of trade and investment-related barriers on electric vehicle supply chains and the role that international trade governance can play in facilitating, or indeed accelerating, a global transition towards electric vehicles.

The report, The Brazilian Financial System and the Green Economy: Alignment with sustainable development, discusses innovation in public policies, regulatory framework and successful international initiatives capable of speeding up the allocation of resources by the financial system to the Green Economy.

This report, Adaptive and Inclusive Watershed Management: Assessing policy and institutional support in Uganda, explores existing institutional linkages between gender, water and climate change in Uganda.

Green Growth and Decarbonization of Energy Systems in a Changing World aims to show how the transition to a low-carbon society through the decarbonization of energy systems can bring social and economic benefits and foster countries’ economic competitiveness. It notably evaluates the inter-linkages between decarbonization and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and emphasizes the need for carbon pricing and climate finance. Additionally, it advocates for ambitious industrial policies to accompany energy-intensive companies in the low-carbon transition and takes example in several successful cases of decarbonization around the world.

This policy report was developed based on submissions from LCS-RNet research members, presented during the 9th Conference of the International Research Network For Low-Carbon Societies (LCS-RNet), which took place on 12 and 13 September 2017 at Warwick University, United Kingdom.