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UNEP’s Compendium of Innovative Laws: promoting Green Economy & Sustainable Development
(2016)
The Compendium presents a compilation of laws and regulations from around the world, that have been found innovative and creatively promoting green economy. It highlights the innovative provisions which promote resource ...
Greening the Financial System: Enhancing Competitiveness Through Economic Development
(2017)
This briefing summarises the discussions held during a roundtable for market and policy leaders in Washington, D.C. on 20 April 2017. The goal of the event was to explore pathways to scale and speed up green finance and ...
Scaling Citizen Action on Climate: ANT Financial’s Efforts Towards a Digital Finance Solution
(2017)
This report shows that almost half of Ant Financial Services Group’s 450 million users signed up to Ant Forest, an app that gamifies carbon footprint tracking – cutting greenhouse gas emissions and demonstrating the massive ...
The International Resource Panel: 10 Key Messages on Climate Change
(2015)
This note draws on the findings of the United Nations’ expert panel on natural resources – the International Resource Panel (IRP) – to highlight some key policy-relevant messages on how sustainable management of natural ...
Greening the Financial System: Exploring the Ways Forward - A Briefing
(2017)
This briefing summarises the discussions held during the “Greening the Financial System: Exploring the Ways Forward” event in Washington, D.C. on 12 October 2017. The goal of this convening, the fourth in the series, was ...
GEO-6 for Youth Africa: A Wealth of Green Opportunities - Global Environment Outlook
(2019)
Africa’s sustainability future is bright. In that future, green jobs abound so much that youth unemployment is dealt a decisive blow. But for this future to materialise, young people, policymakers, private sector players, ...
Overview of the Republic of Korea's Green Growth National Vision
(2010)
This report is produced by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as part of its Green Economy Initiative. The purpose of this report is to present an overview of the Republic of Korea’s strategies and policy goals ...
Cities and Carbon Finance: A Feasibility Study and an Urban CDM
(2012)
This report analyses existing Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM) methodologies and makes specific recommendations on how cities can improve their access to climate finance through the use of Urban CDM and addresses three ...
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, ...
Stories of Change from the Joint UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative
(2013)
The PEI Stories of Change is a small booklet capturing the PEI experiences of various stakeholders ranging from the government to vulnerable groups in Laos, Malawi, Bangladesh, Tajikistan and Uruguay. The featured stories ...