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A Beef with Competition
Should the arrival of ethical beef at Earl’s restaurants be considered good news? Read More -
Report
Roadmap for China: Scaling Up Green Bond Market Issuance
This report provides a roadmap for China to scale up the issuance of green bonds in the domestic market and develop the overseas RMB-denominated market by identifying and addressing the current challenges that limit green bond issuance. Read More -
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Roadmap for China: Green Bond Guidelines for the Next Stage of Market Growth
This report sets out a roadmap for the next steps of the green bond guidelines in the Chinese domestic green bond market with the aim of harmonizing these guidelines with international practice. Read More -
Blog
Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals—Challenges for OECD countries (Part I)
Switzerland will be one of the first countries to report back to the UN's High-Level Political Forum on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. In the first of a series of postings, Mark Halle highlights critical issues for Switzerland—and by extension, other OECD countries—to address in its reporting. Read More -
Briefing Note
Bottom-up Accountability for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Are subnational indicator systems aligned?
This briefing note evaluates, as a test case, alignment between subnational sustainable development indicators and the new Sustainable Development Goal indicators. Read More -
Blog
India’s 2016 Budget: A mixed bag for clean energy alternatives
India's 2016 budget features some important concessions for increasing clean energy, but it is not without drawbacks. Read More -
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Towards a Strategy for Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Canada
Canada is thus obliged, like other UN member states, to help achieve the SDGs both domestically and internationally by 2030. Read More -
Commentary
UNEP and Civil Society: A new landscape for stakeholder engagement in UNEP?
This issue of UNEP's “Perspectives” presents a discourse between Mark Halle and Felix Dodds on the past and future role of civil society organisations and Major Groups and Stakeholders in the context of the United Nations Environment Programme. Read More -
Commentary
Investing in Sustainable Energy: The case for solar technologies in Sri Lanka
This commentary outlines why Sri Lanka should abandon coal and invest instead in a national solar energy program modelled on the experience of India. Read More -
Blog
Hardly a ‘War on Coal’
If it were true that the government is waging a war on coal, it could easily be convicted of aiding and abetting the enemy. The government actually uses its budgetary and regulatory powers to provide subsidies and other benefits to the coal sector worth many billions of dollars per year. Read More