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Reforming Kerosene Subsidies in India: Towards better alternatives
This study aims to address the key question of how to best rationalize the kerosene subsidy to improve the government effectiveness as well as provide the maximum benefit to the households spending on the fuel. The report finds that subsidizing kerosene essentially fails to meet the objective of providing affordable cooking and lighting service to households.
Roadmap for China: Scaling Up Green Bond Market Issuance
This report provides a roadmap for China to scale up the issuance of green bonds in the domestic market and develop the overseas RMB-denominated market by identifying and addressing the current challenges that limit green bond issuance.
Roadmap for China: Green Bond Guidelines for the Next Stage of Market Growth
This report sets out a roadmap for the next steps of the green bond guidelines in the Chinese domestic green bond market with the aim of harmonizing these guidelines with international practice.
Bottom-up Accountability for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Are subnational indicator systems aligned?
This briefing note evaluates, as a test case, alignment between subnational sustainable development indicators and the new Sustainable Development Goal indicators.
Dr. Mostafa Tolba: Architect of the Montreal Protocol, IPCC and Biodiversity Convention
A tribute to the life of Dr. Mostafa Tolba, who sadly passed away on March 28, 2016. Dr. Mostafa Tolba led the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for almost 20 years, and played a pivotal role in setting the global environmental agenda.
Follow-Up and Review for the 2030 Agenda: Bringing coherence to the work of the HLPF
IISD prepared this contribution to informal consultations going on in New York as the first step in a process leading to a resolution in the UN General Assembly on follow-up and review for the 2030 Agenda.
Rapid Scenario-Planning Exercise to Review Risks of the Agricultural Sector
The brief summarizes the outcomes of a rapid scenario-planning exercise to stress test a series of business risk-management programs under a set of plausible economic, social and environmental conditions.
CRiSTAL Parks User’s Manual Version 1
CRiSTAL Parks is a project-planning tool designed to help project planners and managers integrate climate risks into conservation planning.
It’s Official: The United Kingdom is to subsidize nuclear power, but at what cost?
A review of planned subsidies to the proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in the United Kingdom.
Investment Treaty News Quarterly, Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2016
In this issue: Is investor-state dispute settlement legal under EU Law?