Self-insurance Against Natural Disasters: The use of pension funds in Pacific Island countries provides a normative analysis of the use of early pension withdrawals after disasters, by setting up a life-cycle saving model with myopic households facing large natural disaster shocks
Africa SDG Index and Dashboards 2018 is a tool to track progress toward the SDGs, to help pinpoint key implementation challenges, and to assist countries in benchmarking their SDG performance against their African peers.
Law and National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, provides an overview of current thinking and the experience of countries in using legal frameworks to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity at the national level.
The Scaling Citizen Action on Climate: ANT Financial's efforts towards a digital finance solution report shows that almost half of Ant Financial Services Group’s 450 million users signed up to Ant Forest, an app that gamifies carbon footprint tracking – cutting greenhouse gas emissions and demonstrating the massive potential of Fintech (financial technology) for supporting sustainable development. By the end of January 2017, the approach had avoided 150,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, thanks to the accumulation of small behavior changes, with much more to come.
The State of Vancouver's Green Economy 2018 details the city of Vancouver’s transformation from a resource based economy to now one of the fastest growing, diverse and greenest economies in the world.