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12 January 2021

A Water-Secure, Climate-Resilient Future for Cities

Robert C. Brears
Globally, the effects of climate change are felt with rising temperatures, droughts, heatwaves, and more frequent and severe storm events impacting water quantity and quality. In response, water managers need to ensure that communities are resilient to water scarcity pressures and water excesses and that the natural system and its associated ecosystem services are protected and enhanced. For cities, the primary strategies available to enhance the resilience to climatic extremes include applying demand management, developing alternative water sources, and implementing blue-green infrastructure (BGI).
4 January 2021

Undeterred by Pandemic: Four trends in global climate action to watch in the coming decade

Pratima Divgi
The 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement marks a pivotal milestone in environmental disclosure. Across the globe, more and more countries and companies are leveraging the moment to invest in a more resilient and inclusive future. As we embark on a new year, CDP Hong Kong's regional director Pratima Divgi looks back on the challenging year of 2020 and discusses 4 emerging trends in the global sustainability terrain that will shape our market and regulatory environment in the next decade
15 December 2020
Research

Greening health infrastructure systems for a green recovery

Chengchen Qian
The impact of COVID-19 has put a strain on healthcare systems throughout the world. Investing in the sustainable use of energy and water, sound management of medical waste and advanced digital solutions would ease the burden and help improve the health of people and the planet.
7 December 2020
Partner in Focus

Is the COVID-19 crisis spurring a transition to net-zero emissions in the oil and gas sector?

Andrew Prag , Guy Halpern
This blog was originally published on OECD Environment Focus on 2 December 2020. By Andrew Prag and Guy Halpern, OECD Environment Directorate Almost all economic sectors have suffered due to the evolving COVID-19 crisis. For the oil and gas industry, already battered on one side by low prices due to an oil price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia, and on the other by the push to decarbonise the global economy, the crisis hit at an especially challenging time.
24 November 2020

Lessons from the Great Recession for COVID-19 Green Recovery

Joel Jaeger
Governments are in uncharted territory as they respond to the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic — but that doesn’t mean they can’t learn from the past. The most recent comparison is the global financial crisis that began in 2007. There are important lessons that emerged, especially from the forward-thinking governments that included sustainability projects as part of their economic stimulus packages.
24 November 2020

An inclusive digital green economy in the making

Yaxuan Chen
Digital adoption has triggered qualitative changes for a green economy and renewable energy transition. However, for a transformation to happen, policymakers need to strategically address new business models that embrace the development and deployment of digital technologies for data generation, storage, transmission and analysis.
6 October 2020

Using the Ocean As a Tool for Global Economic Recovery

Eliza Northrop, Mansi Konar, Nicola Frost, Liz Hollaway
The ocean economy, which contributes upwards of $1.5 trillion in value added to the global economy, was particularly hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, with a projected loss of $1.9 billion for international shipping carriers alone. Coastal communities were hardest hit, with an estimated $7.4 billion fall in GDP across Small Island Developing States due to the decline in tourism.
5 October 2020

Natural Capital Research Project: An integrated approach to work on data, metrics and policy for green growth planning

Paul Ekins
In 2018 GGKP set out an initial research programme on natural capital and green growth, grouped into three overarching themes of Data, Metrics and Policies. Under this programme five papers were commissioned. This note summarises the key insights of these papers.
14 September 2020

Buried Waters: Clean energy solutions for water access in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan

Namrata Ginoya

Every drop of water is precious in western Rajasthan. This sun-baked swathe of arid land is dotted with ‘dhanis’, or small settlements comprising of 50-100 people and a few thousand of their domesticated animals.

14 September 2020

Why Wetlands Can (and Should) Boost Your NDC

Talia Chorover, Alex Mauroner, Gina Lovett
This blog explores why wetlands can and should contribute to the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

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