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This technical brief from the Climate Adaptation and Protected Areas (CAPA) Initiative provides a framework and checklist for practitioners and policy-makers to assess and design nature-based solutions (NbS) for climate change adaptation, focusing on gender-responsiveness, social inclusion, and conflict sensitivity.

This guide provides a comprehensive checklist and business case for public-sector procurers and policy-makers to implement sustainable public procurement (SPP). It emphasizes shifting the procurement mindset from 'best value for money' at the point of purchase to 'best value across the project/product life cycle,' utilizing life-cycle costing (LCC) to justify the higher upfront costs of green assets through long-term efficiency gains and reduced environmental externalities.

This guide provides a comprehensive checklist for governments and stakeholders to evaluate the sustainable development impacts of investment incentives. It emphasizes a multi-level analysis covering individual projects, general incentive policy design, and the influence of international agreements, arguing that economic growth alone is an insufficient measure of success.

This guide, published by the Stockholm Environment Institute for the UNEP Global Programme of Action (GPA), provides an analytical framework, guidelines, and checklists to integrate marine and coastal resource management into national planning and budgetary processes. It emphasizes shifting the narrative from purely regulatory pollution control to demonstrating how sustainable coastal management contributes to national development goals, poverty reduction, and economic growth.

This guide, published by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), provides a checklist for practitioners and civil society to ensure that 2025 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are aligned with international human rights obligations and climate objectives. It emphasizes that human rights-based climate action is more effective and is a legal obligation for all Parties to the Paris Agreement.

This fact sheet, published by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), provides a checklist for practitioners and civil society to ensure that 2025 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are aligned with human rights obligations and international climate goals. It argues that human rights-based climate action is both a legal obligation under the Paris Agreement and more effective for increasing public support and policy efficiency.

This fact sheet by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) provides a checklist for ensuring that 2025 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are based on human rights. It argues that human rights-based climate action is a legal obligation under the Paris Agreement and is more effective, as supported by the IPCC. The document outlines nine key components for NDCs, ranging from mitigation ambition and the elimination of fossil fuels to gender justice, indigenous rights, and accountability mechanisms.