Browsing Reports, Books and Booklets by Topic "Finance and Economic Transformations"
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2020 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction: Towards a Zero-emissions, Efficient and Resilient Buildings and Construction Sector
(2020)This year’s Buildings Global Status Report provides an update on the drivers of CO2 emissions and energy demand globally since 2018, along with examples of policies, technologies, and investments that support low-carbon ... -
2021 Annual Report of the United Nations Interagency Task Force on Religion and Sustainable Development: Engaging with Religion and Faith-based Actors on the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
(2022-10)Annual Report of the United Nations Interagency Task Force on Religion and Sustainable Development for Engaging with Religion and Faith-based Actors on the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda -
2022 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction: Towards a Zero‑emission, Efficient and Resilient Buildings and Construction Sector
(2022-11)Decarbonizing the buildings sector by 2050 is critical to delivering these emission cuts – and to addressing the wider triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. ... -
2050 Electronic and Electrical Waste Outlook in West Asia
(2023-03)This Outlook provides projections for e-waste generation and challenges of managing e-waste in an economically diverse West Asia region. It also provides a stepwise approach for countries to manage e-waste in an environmentally ... -
25 Clean Air Measures for Asia and the Pacific
(2019)Air pollution is not only a major health risk, it also has damaging impacts on the environment and agricultural crop yields. These impacts have significant economic consequences. While existing policies have made progress ... -
The ABC for Sustainable Cities: A Glossary for Policy Makers
(2016)The ABC for Sustainable Cities aims to bring clarity on this. Rather than providing a single univocal definition of what is a “Sustainable City”, it brings together key elements of it by compiling terms and concepts from ... -
Action Plan for Low Carbon and Resource Efficient Accommodation in Mauritius
(2019)The Action Plan for Low Carbon and Resource Efficient Accommodation in Mauritius sets out a roadmap to a sustainable and resilient tourism accommodation sector in Mauritius. It will enable accommodation providers, their ... -
Adaptation Gap Report 2022: Too Little, Too Slow - Climate Adaptation Failure Puts World at Risk
(2022-11)Climate change is landing blow after blow upon humanity, The international community must urgently reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a transformation of energy, industry, transport, food systems, financial systems ... -
Adapting for a Green Economy: Companies, Communities and Climate Change - A Caring for Climate Report
(2011)This report is a resource for companies with a national, regional or global reach that are interested in increasing their strategic focus on adaptation in developing countries where they have operations, supply chains, ... -
Addressing the Used Vehicles Market: Potential Strategies for Importing and Exporting Countries to Improve Safety, Fuel Economy and Emissions Impacts - A Report of the Used Vehicles Working Group of the Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV)
(2019)This report is prepared by a Working Group of the Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles and seeks to provide a menu of potential strategies that importing and exporting countries may use to regulate cleaner and safer ... -
Afghanistan Vulnerability and Adaptation Technical Assessment Report
(2020-11)Afghanistan is one of the least developed and most vulnerable countries to climate change. The high dependence of its population on agricultural livelihoods, fragile environment, poor socio economic development, high ... -
Análisis del Marco Legal de Comras Públicas en Ecuador: Oportunidades y Barreras para la Incorporacion de Criterios Sostenibles
(2016)Los sistemas de contratación pública se crearon con el objetivo de optimizar los procesos de ejecución de obras, adquisición de bienes y prestación de servicios del sector público, para lograr una adecuada administración ... -
Análisis sobre la situación de la temática de desperdicio de alimentos en Bogotá
(2022-09)El presente reporte tiene como objetivo responder las siguientes interrogantes; ¿cuál es el abordaje que se hace sobre los conceptos de pérdida y desperdicios de alimentos (PDA), desde los marcos legales y culturales? ... -
Annex 1: Methodology - Turning off the Tap: How the World can End Plastic Pollution and Create a Circular Economy
(2023-04)This annex includes Annex 1.1: Key metrics and assumptions in the business-as-usual and systems change scenarios; and Annex 1.2 Methodology for the Economic analysis. -
Annex II: Financing Nature-based Solutions for Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Cities - In support of the Working Paper for the G20: Smart, Sustainable and Resilient cities: the Power of Nature-based Solutions
(2022-02)This report aims at strengthening the case for investment and provides a collection of financing options for different types of urban NbS1. It has been developed as a motivational effort to engage city officials, practitioners, ... -
Annex III: Accounting for Nature in Urban Planning: How Ecosystem Accounts can Help Scale Up Nature‑based Solutions for Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Cities - In support of the Working Paper for the G20: Smart, Sustainable and Resilient cities: the Power of Nature-based Solutions
(2022-02)This annex responds to some of the key barriers identified to scaling up the use of the NbS – particularly the challenges of showing that nature in cities can be an ‘asset’ rather than a ‘cost’. It reviews how the application ... -
The Application of Economic Instruments in Environmental Policies in Brazil, China and South Korea: A Synthesis Report
(1997)The motivation behind the growing interest in economic instruments in Brazil, China and South Korea, as in other developing countries, has been to some extent similar to that of OECD countries but with the added urgency ... -
Are We Building Back Better? Evidence from 2020 and Pathways to Inclusive Green Recovery Spending
(2021)This report presents early data outputs from the Observatory to understand COVID-19 fiscal spending priorities in 2020 and which environmentally and economically desirable policies are facing underinvestment. It explores ...
