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The report Enhancing Water Use Efficiency in Korea: Policy Issues and Recommendations, building on a policy dialogue with a range of stakeholders in Korea, analyses how economic policy instruments under the responsibility of the Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport can be adjusted to contribute to water policy objectives.

This guide has been developed in response to the interest of developing markets in the potential for capital markets to connect institutional private capital with projects that deliver positive environmental impact. Green bonds are a vehicle for doing this. The guide has been written for those with responsibility and interest in achieving environmental goals and commitments, in particular green growth and infrastructure development. It may be particularly useful for environment, finance and planning ministries and related teams in regions and cities.

The guide draws on learning from CDKN’s project to assess the potential for a successful green bond market in Colombia, and its broader climate finance work in other developing and emerging markets.

The paper Phasing Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies in the G20: Progress, Challenges, and Ways Forward analyses progress and challenges to implementing the G20’s commitment and outlines policy options for G20 policymakers, drawing upon the international trade framework as a means to overcome current implementation deadlocks.

The CARISMA Project started in February 2015 and intends, through effective stakeholder consultation and communication, to ensure a continuous coordination and assessment of climate change mitigation options and to benefit research and innovation efficiency, as well as international cooperation on research and innovation and technology transfer.

‘Ecosystem Services’, defined as “the benefits people obtain from ecosystems” is an evolving concept that connects ecosystem with human wellbeing through provisioned services. Safeguarding ecosystems is one of the Aichi Targets (Target 14) for biodiversity conservation under the Convention on Biological Diversity.