This paper presents and illustrates a methodology for converting climate mitigation policies and targets into their carbon price equivalents and applies it to G20 countries.
This paper calls for a transformation in economic and financial systems to expand the environmental agenda beyond climate change and to include the drivers of biodiversity loss and other factors.
This compendium aims to support key actors and institutions to plan, implement, replicate and scale nature-based solutions in the three South Asian nations.
Bangladesh's "Voluntary National Review (VNR) 2020: Accelerated action and transformative pathways: realizing the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development" is the second formal voluntary review of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation by the government of Bangladesh, and unlike the 2017 VNR where the implementation status, challenges and coping strategies covering only six SDGs were presented, the 2020 VNR encapsulates calls for reviewing of all the SDGs. The 2020 VNR report covering the years till 2019, illustrates the progress made by Bangladesh in various areas of the economic and social development field including but not limited to success in reducing extreme poverty measured by $1.90 a day / national poverty line (LPL).
This report reflected progress on 118 indicators and measures the status of and progress in SDGs implementation during the last 4 years so that the country (Bangladesh) can adopt appropriate strategies and policy actions for the goals and targets the country is lagging. This progress report is also a source of motivation for all stakeholders to undertake actions to enhance performance in SDGs implementation for achieving the milestones set under the SDGs by 2030.