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The report Accelerating Financial Centre Action on Sustainable Development: How International Cooperation Can Scale Up Green and Sustainable Finance presents the case for strategic action by the world’s financial centres on climate change and sustainable development. It then outlines the goal and planned activities of the new International Network of Financial Centres for Sustainability, which was inspired by work undertaken by Italy as part of its 2017 G7 Presidency.

Bonds and Climate Change 2017: The State of the Market Canada marks the sixth annual stocktake of green bonds and green finance in Canada, produced in partnership with the Climate Bonds Initiative.

The State of the Market Canada edition results from a longstanding joint partnership between the two organisations and is a special supplement to the flagship Bonds and Climate Change: The State of the Market global report.

The Canada edition marks specific highlights from the current year, emerging trends, and identifies specific opportunities for green bond market development.

Based on a review of existing subsidy obligations and tabled negotiating proposals, the objectives of the paper Options for Improving the Transparency of Fisheries Subsidies are to identify the common elements of additional fisheries-related information proposed for new notification disciplines and discuss the feasibility of requiring all WTO members to provide this information.

The forest brief The Bonn Challenge and the Paris Agreement: How can Forest Landscape Restoration Advance Nationally Determined Contributions? stresses some key messages on how IUCN's work in advancing forest landscape restoration (FLR) as a nature-based solution to climate change are contributing to national efforts for designing and implementing climate change action in the forest sector.

The paper Financing the Transition from Brown to Green: How to Track Country Performance Towards Low Carbon, Climate-Resilient Economies explores ways of financing the transition from brown, carbon-intensive models of economic development to low-carbon, green economies.