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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.

The report Climate Finance for the Indian Ocean and African Small Island Developing States analyses concessional international public flows of climate finance to Indian Ocean and African Small Island Developing States for the six years 2010–2015.

The authors examine the sources of climate finance, its distribution among recipient countries, the shares targeting adaptation and mitigation, the spread across sectors, the modes of delivery and intermediaries involved in programming the funds, as well as the share of committed funds that has been disbursed so far. For each country analysed – Cape Verde, the Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, the Maldives, Mauritius, São Tomé and Principe, and the Seychelles – detailed snapshots of climate finance are provided.