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The world’s greatest challenges don’t always have simple answers. Going beyond the surface is critical when it comes to solving global problems. Our experts know how important it is to look back at history and consider the big picture if we want to find solutions that work.
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Disaster Risk Reduction in an Unstable World
Successful disaster risk reduction requires both top-down, institutional changes and strategies and bottom-up, local, community-based approaches.
The Roots of Forest Loss and Forest Governance
If lessons from past failures on deforestation are learned, forest protection could play a major role in reversing both climate change and biodiversity loss.
Pathways to Sustainable Cities
Urban planning needs to be inclusive and responsive to the needs of local communities and build on participatory approaches that foster the engagement of marginalized actors.
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The Roots of Forest Loss and Forest Governance
If lessons from past failures on deforestation are learned, forest protection could play a major role in reversing both climate change and biodiversity loss.
Pathways to Sustainable Cities
Urban planning needs to be inclusive and responsive to the needs of local communities and build on participatory approaches that foster the engagement of marginalized actors.
Indigenous Peoples: Defending an Environment for All
International environmental negotiations need to go beyond tokenistic participation of Indigenous Peoples to a genuine integration of their worldviews and knowledge.
A Warming Arctic is a Warning for the World
To protect the Arctic, stronger and broader local, national, and international measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions must be implemented.
The Water and Sanitation Challenge
For universal access to water to become a reality, governments and private-sector service providers should adopt a human rights-based approach to ensure water and sanitation services are safe, available, accessible, affordable, and culturally acceptable.
Five Key Elements for a Gender Lens in Trade
A large group of WTO members are set to adopt a declaration on trade, gender equality, and women’s economic empowerment—but how can we ensure it leads to tangible benefits for women?
Protecting Endangered Species
Despite continued conservation efforts, the status of many endangered species remains unchanged.
Advancing Green Public Procurement and Low-Carbon Procurement in Europe: Insights
Public procurement provides a key entry point for governments to change the trajectory of their greenhouse gas emissions and to meet climate goals in line with their international commitments to the Paris Agreement.
Trade and the Environment: The Search for Sustainable Solutions
While the interactions between trade and the environment are complex, pursuing policy coherence is imperative to leave no one behind.
How to Enforce the Polluter-Pays Principle
The simple but compelling idea that the "polluter pays" comes with considerable uncertainties and ambiguities during its use.