The book includes a survey assessing the performance of the United Nations and its member states in all key areas, laying down a road map for sustainable development in the future.
The Asia-Pacific Regional Human Development Report (APHDR) focuses on the need for the region to find ways to continue to grow economically, while reducing poverty and tackling climate change and environmental concerns.
Green growth was a key theme of 2012's Rio+20 conference. There is, however, confusion about what should be sustained: Is it all encompassing development? Is it economic growth, greened or otherwise? Or is it human well-being?
An Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) is a tool for delivering sustainable development and a response to three sets of challenges facing humanity: persistent poverty, inequitable sharing of the growing prosperity, and overstepped planetary boundaries. How does this tool work?
The Road to Rio+20 publications, by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development provide a series of essay compilations, all based around the ‘what’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ of making the transition to a development‐led green economy.
Energy efficiency has a plethora of benefits on the individual, organisational, and social levels. However, there is still a gap between knowledge and implementation. While market failure serves as an important barrier to energy efficiency uptake, so do the characteristics of human behaviour.