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New horizons for low carbon built environments: Investigating implications
Decarbonizing built environments’ value chains will be key to achieving Paris Agreement commitments in the coming decades. At the same time, disruptive shifts and intentional steps for new technologies, circular economy principles, demands for...
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New horizons for low carbon built environments: The exploratory phase
Decarbonizing built environments’ value chains will be key to achieving Paris Agreement commitments in the coming decades. At the same time, disruptive shifts and intentional steps for new technologies, circular economy principles, demands for...
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Subsidies and Sustainable Agriculture: Mapping the Policy Landscape
Agricultural subsidies have a large part in shaping production and consumption patterns, with potentially significant effects on food security, nutrition, climate change and biodiversity. Our latest report maps the policy landscape and political economy of subsidies and outlines potential opportunities for reform and intervention.
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Finance for Social and Environmental Enterprises: Scaling financial flows
Achieving the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires unleashing the positive power of business to deliver social and environmental improvements. However, most businesses that...
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Trade, Climate and the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy
The ever-increasing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) have been intensifying global warming, ocean acidification, desertification and changing climate patterns. Global sea levels are predicted...
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Finance for Social and Environmental Enterprises: Mainstreaming Impact
The supply and demand of impact data is vital to enable finance to flow from investors to businesses that deliver social and environmental goals. The...
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Environment and Trade 2.0: Developing a Transformative Agenda for Greater Sustainability in Trade
The global trading system is facing its worst crisis in 70 years. The re-emergence of tariff wars, paralysis at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and...
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Environment and Trade 2.0
To focus political energy, governments and stakeholders from both the environment and trade communities should seize the ongoing discussions on WTO reform to integrate a stronger environmental dimension into the organization’s future, establishing an agenda for Environment and Trade 2.0, argues Carolyn Deere Birkbeck.
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Closing the Gap: Overcoming Barriers to Investment in Forests
How can financial flows be directed to natural climate solutions, in particular, forests? This workshop brought together scientists, NGOs and private and public investors to explore barriers and opportunities to increasing private capital investments into forests – one of the most promising natural climate solutions available.
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COP26: A Roadmap for Success
The next 14 months are critical in the fight against climate change. Ahead of the 26th Conference of the Parties in Glasgow in 2020, this article proposes a roadmap for a successful UK presidency that will deliver greenhouse gas reduction commitments at the level needed to avoid dangerous levels of climate change.