The report Assessing Environmental Impacts: A Global Review of Legislation provides an overview of the current status of national legislation and institutional arrangements of relevance to Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) and Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) across the globe, as well as emerging issues and trends.
The report Taxing Energy Use 2018: Companion to the Taxing Energy Use Database assesses the magnitude and coverage of taxes on energy use in 2015, across different countries and selected country groups, six sectors and five main fuel groups.
The OECD DAC Blended Finance Principles for Unlocking Commercial Finance for the Sustainable Development Goals focus primarily on commercial actors as a source of potential financing for development that has not yet been targeted towards the SDGs.
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) offers both opportunities and risks for investors, for sustainable development, and for natural resources. Financial institutions have a key role to play to ensure that its programmes and projects are delivered in ways that invest in and enhance natural capital and ensure a net gain for the environment. This report provides recommendations to the finance sector in three main areas: (i) Integrating sustainability in infrastructure decisionmaking; (ii) Demonstrating the sustainable business opportunity; and (iii) Scaling up sustainable infrastructure.
This paper Blue Growth: Savior or Ocean Grabbing? critically interrogates these policy proposals and situates them within broader neoliberalization of nature debates.