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2 October 2019
Online

GGKP Webinar - Measuring What Matters: A new methodology for collecting and reporting data on fossil fuel subsidies

Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP)
This webinar presented a new methodology for collecting and reporting data on fossil fuel subsidies, developed jointly by UNEP, OECD, and the IISD’s Global Subsidies Initiative. Government representatives from Italy and Indonesia shared country experience with the review of fossil fuel subsidies under the G20 process and the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies.
9 February 2021

Mapping Together: How local leaders use Collect Earth to monitor restoration

World Resources Institute (WRI), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
On 9 February 2021 at 15:30-16:30 EST, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are co-hosting a webinar - "Mapping Together: How local leaders use Collect Earth to monitor restoration".
January 2021

Mapping together: A guide to monitoring forest and landscape restoration using Collect Earth mapathons

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
This guide serves to assist stakeholders in monitoring tree-based restoration, with a focus on trees outside forests, such as trees on agricultural and pastoral landscapes and within cities and towns—using a Collect Earth mapathon approach.

International Energy Agency (IEA) Data and Statistics

International Energy Agency (IEA)
IEA Energy Data and Statistics provides a comprehensive source of global energy data.
9 April 2014
Tools and Initiatives

Turning data into knowledge

Denise Recheis, Amanda McKee

Practitioners and policymakers working towards sustainable development are constantly seeking information to understand what is happening around the world in the context of their work. At the same time however, a recent explosion of content and improved access to it (e.g.

January 2019

Environmental Rule of Law: An analysis of data availability

Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP)
Laws, alongside the institutions and legal systems that ensure their implementation and enforcement, are an essential component of an enabling environment for green growth. Environmental Rule of Law: An analysis of data availability aims to provide a comprehensive review of currently available datasets allowing for the measurement of environmental rule of law, using the OECD Pressure-State-Response model to determine suitable enforcement and compliance indicators.
July 2019

The need for spatial data transparency in the tropical forestry sector

SPOTT
This report The need for spatial data transparency in the tropical forestry sector presents the case for spatial data disclosure by forestry companies. It provides guidance on the collection, disclosure and use of data and highlights the benefits of spatial data transparency to companies and wider stakeholders, including financial institutions and buying companies, who rely on accurate, consistent and transparent information to support their lending, investment and procurement decisions.
August 2017

Private Standards, Trade, and Sustainable Development: Policy Options for Collective Action

International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)
Private standard schemes have become a constitutive element of international commercial transactions, as well as powerful tools to mainstream environmental, social, and economic sustainability requirements in economic operations.
January 2019

Sustainable Rural Bioenergy Solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A collection of good practices

International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
This collection aims to provide a reference for policy makers and practitioners working to scale up bioenergy in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Energy, agriculture, forestry, environment, finance and business experts all seek for solutions to provide energy and also enhance food security, social welfare and environmental sustainability.
March 2018

Big Data for Resilience Storybook

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

IISD's Big Data for Resilience Storybook explores the links between Big Data and resilience building through a new resilience lens. Aimed at an audience of resilience and development practitioners, the Storybook offers diverse experiences and practice-based recommendations to leverage Big Data’s

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