This report reviews the current status of payments for watershed services (PWS) in developing countries.
The REDD+ Academy is a coordinated REDD+ capacity development initiative led by the UN-REDD Programme and the UNEP Environmental Education and Training Unit, which seeks to match the scale of the global climate change mitigation challenge and enable systematic, focused capacity development to del
Linking emissions trading schemes is the bottom-up approach to creating a global carbon market. It entails political compromise and a careful assessment of the trade-off between its advantages and disadvantage.
The ‘Building a Low‐Carbon Indian Economy’ report, by the Confederation of Indian Industry, recognises that although India is undergoing a phase of rapid industrial development there are clear signs that ‘industry in India has adopted an approach that can help India leapfrog to a low‐carbon econo
This free platform, developed by the International Renewable Energy Angency (IRENA), is open for project owners, governments, financiers, and service and technology providers so as to develop and drive investments to new renewable energy projects in Africa.
Using the example of the Lebanese Ministry of Energy and Water’s (MEW) support for the residential solar water heating (SWH) market, this report highlights how sound governmental policies can boost a green economy.
The Durban conference decided to establish a new market based mechanism that is to cover a broad segment of a country’s economy. The question is, however, which developing countries would actually be able to implement such a mechanism.
This report looks at potential options for curbing emissions from international aviation. It considers the environmental, economic and political consequences of potential market based mechanisms, and offers an overall assessment of climate policy in this sector.
This policy manuel aims to help the European Union’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine – design or reform economic instruments related to environmentally harmful products.