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This briefing by the African Food Systems Transformation Collective examines the intersection of trade policy and the transition to agroecological food systems in Africa. It argues that current trade regimes, including the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), often prioritize industrial agriculture and neoliberal orthodoxy, which can marginalize smallholder farmers and undermine food sovereignty. The document advocates for a shift toward 'territorial markets' and regional trade policies that align with agroecological principles to enhance food security, nutrition, and environmental resilience.

This policy brief by the African Food Systems Transformation Collective argues for a 'deep, just transition' approach to African food systems that prioritizes human rights, structural equity, and agroecology over industrialization. Using South Africa as a cautionary example of the failures of industrial agri-food systems, the document provides recommendations for philanthropic organizations to fund multi-sectoral coalitions, grassroots agency, and long-term, context-based research and advocacy.

This policy brief argues that market concentration and weak competition regimes in African agrifood systems inflate food prices, marginalize smallholder farmers, and hinder climate change adaptation. It recommends strengthening national and regional competition authorities, improving market intelligence through tools like the African Market Observatory, and securing international donor support to dismantle cartels and regulate multinational firms.

This briefing by the African Food Systems Transformation Collective examines the challenges and opportunities within Africa's fisheries and aquaculture sectors, focusing on Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria. It highlights the 'triple burden of malnutrition' and the sector's low global production contribution (6%), which leads to a US$6 billion annual import reliance. The document advocates for agroecological, climate-resilient, and nutrition-sensitive approaches, emphasizing the role of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in reducing import dependency and fostering regional trade. It identifies critical bottlenecks such as post-harvest losses (up to 30%), gender disparities, and environmental degradation, while proposing technological solutions like solar-powered cold chains and recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS).

The Sevilla Commitment is an outcome document from the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Spain from June 30 to July 3, 2025. It establishes a renewed global financing framework to close an estimated annual financing gap of 4 trillion US dollars for sustainable development, particularly in developing countries. The document outlines comprehensive actions across domestic public resources, private business and finance, international development cooperation, international trade, debt sustainability, and the international financial architecture, with a strong emphasis on reforming global economic governance to be more inclusive and representative of developing nations.

The Free State Environmental Justice Network (FSEJN) has filed an appeal to the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment to set aside an environmental authorisation (EA) granted on 23 June 2025 to Afro Energy (Pty) Ltd. The EA allows for the exploration of conventional natural gas across approximately 240,000 hectares in the Free State and Mpumalanga provinces. FSEJN argues that the decision by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) was unlawful, irrational, and failed to adequately assess climate, air quality, geohydrological, and socio-economic impacts, while also neglecting meaningful public participation.

A report by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and Friends of the Earth US analyzing the risks and geographic scope of marine geoengineering technologies, arguing that these speculative interventions threaten all ocean basins and distract from fossil fuel phaseout.

This guide from the Center for International Environmental Law provides civil society organizations (CSOs) with tools and strategies to ensure that the 2025 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are based on human rights. It outlines the nature of NDCs under the Paris Agreement and provides a framework for CSOs to engage governments, participate in planning, and hold states accountable for their climate commitments.

This guidebook provides civil society organizations with tools and strategies to ensure that Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are based on human rights, emphasizing the obligations of Paris Agreement Parties and the effectiveness of human rights-based climate policies.

This briefing by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) examines the environmental, climate, health, and financial risks associated with the decommissioning of offshore oil and gas infrastructure. It highlights how improper closure and the proliferation of abandoned wells lead to methane leaks and toxic contamination, while corporate strategies and regulatory loopholes often shift the massive financial burden of cleanup from operators to the public.

The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) outlines the methodology for its Social and Sustainability Bond Dataset (SSBD), detailing the criteria, screening processes, and classification systems used to evaluate debt instruments. The framework focuses on ensuring that bonds provide substantive social and environmental benefits to target populations while adhering to strict minimum safeguards to prevent 'greenwashing'.

The Climate Bonds Social and Sustainability Bond Dataset Methodology (2025) outlines the criteria and screening processes used by the Climate Bonds Initiative to identify and classify credible social and sustainability (S&S) bonds. The methodology focuses on ensuring that the use of proceeds (UoP) provides substantial benefits to defined target populations and aligns with global sustainability goals while avoiding absolute exclusions such as fossil fuel exploration.

The 'Sustainable Debt Global State of the Market H1 2025' report by the Climate Bonds Initiative provides a comprehensive analysis of aligned green, social, sustainability, and sustainability-linked (GSS+) debt. As of the end of H1 2025, the cumulative aligned volume reached USD 6.2 trillion, with H1 2025 alone contributing USD 555.8 billion. The report details the dominance of green bonds, the resurgence of social debt, the stability of sustainability-labelled debt, and the specific alignment trends of sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs). It also highlights the introduction of the European Green Bond Standard, the rise of data-centre focused asset-backed securities, and the strategic priorities for COP30, including methane abatement and the Tropical Forest Forever Fund.

This guide by the Global Climate and Health Alliance provides a framework for the climate and health community to help governments integrate health considerations into their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), specifically for the 'NDCs 3.0' due in 2025. It outlines seven criteria for health-inclusive NDCs, practical steps for government implementation, and strategies for civil society to advocate for health-centric climate policies.

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative and Amazônia 2030 analyzes the integration of the Amazon region into Brazil's 'Novo PAC' (Growth Acceleration Program). It argues that the program lacks regional planning, fails to account for the heterogeneity of the Amazon, and contains contradictions between its sustainability goals and its actual infrastructure projects, particularly in logistics and energy.

This report by Climate Policy Initiative and Amazônia 2030 analyzes the regulatory framework for legal gold mining (garimpo) in the Brazilian Amazon. It argues that current laws are anachronistic, treating industrial-scale operations as artisanal, which allows them to bypass critical environmental safeguards such as prior mineral research and rigorous environmental licensing. The authors recommend federal regulatory updates to mandate prior research for cooperatives and a reversal of simplified, municipalized licensing processes in the state of Pará to better mitigate socio-environmental damages.

This action brief by the Climate Policy Initiative outlines opportunities for development finance institutions (DFIs) and multilateral development banks (MDBs) to integrate a dual gender-nature lens into their investment processes to support biodiversity goals and gender equality.

This document is a comprehensive legislative directory compiled by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI/PUC-Rio) that lists the federal and state laws, decrees, and normative instructions governing the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) and the Environmental Regularization Program (PRA) across various Brazilian states as of 2025.

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative and Amazônia 2030 analyzes how deforestation in the Amazon rainforest reduces rainfall and river flow, thereby decreasing electricity generation and revenue for Brazil's two largest hydroelectric plants: Itaipu and Belo Monte.

This 2025 report by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI/PUC-Rio) provides a comprehensive analysis of the implementation of the Brazilian Forest Code (Law No. 12.651/2012), specifically focusing on the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) and the Environmental Regularization Program (PRA) across Brazilian states. It details the transition of the National CAR System (Sicar) to a digital public infrastructure managed by Dataprev and the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services (MGI), the adoption of automated analysis tools to accelerate CAR validation, and the persistent challenges in converting validated registries into effective forest restoration through the PRA.