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The guide outlines five strategies for implementing 'green meetings' in Asia, focusing on overcoming cultural barriers where offering less can be seen as 'poor'. Key recommendations include engaging leadership early, reforming travel cultures to reduce flights, supporting local communities through sustainable tourism, eliminating single-use plastics and disposables, and using digital tools like event apps to reduce printing and encourage participation.

The document describes a guide created for UK Women’s Institute Climate Ambassadors to facilitate community communication regarding climate risks and adaptation. It addresses the historical tension between adaptation and emission reduction, noting that significant impacts are now 'locked in'. The guide provides practical tips, 'do’s and don’ts', and factsheets specifically covering flooding, heatwaves, and drought, alongside community engagement activities.

The document introduces a guide for facilitating peer learning among adaptation policy-makers, based on Targeted Topic Forums (TTFs) piloted by the NAP Global Network. These forums, which involved government representatives from 23 countries, focused on themes such as financing, gender, and sectoral integration to move away from presentation-heavy meetings toward participatory planning.

The document argues that achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7 requires a shift from fragmented electrification efforts to Integrated Electrification Pathways (IEPs). IEPs are defined as inclusive planning approaches that leverage a mix of grid, mini-grid, and off-grid technologies based on human needs and sustainable development goals. The guide outlines four key features of IEPs—contextualizing access within human needs, considering all technological delivery models, securing high-level political commitment, and implementing market-enabling policies—and provides a five-step planning process. This process includes establishing a coordinating body, engaging experts, utilizing geospatial data and modeling tools, developing supportive regulations, and mobilizing diverse finance to support both developers and consumers.

The document outlines the climate-related risks facing health care facilities (HCFs) and provides a framework for mitigation and adaptation. It highlights that 90% of health care life-cycle GHG emissions in Canada are generated upstream in the supply chain, with pharmaceuticals and hospitals being major contributors. The guide recommends using resiliency checklists, vulnerability assessments, and sustainable procurement to reduce environmental footprints. It also discusses specific interventions in energy efficiency, transportation (including telemedicine), and the reduction of potent inhalation anesthetic gases.

The document outlines adaptation strategies for various climate-related health risks in Canada, including extreme temperature events, flooding, wildfires, food insecurity, vector-borne diseases, and water quality issues. It provides specific examples of municipal actions—such as Toronto's green roof bylaws and Vancouver's warming centres—and offers actionable tips for health professionals to support vulnerable patients and advocate for resilient community policies.

The document is a comprehensive guide for healthcare professionals to address climate change. It covers the science of climate change, its global and Canadian health impacts, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission trends in Canada, and practical solutions. It emphasizes 'co-benefits'—where climate actions like promoting plant-based diets or active transport immediately improve public health. The guide provides specific strategies for making healthcare facilities more resilient and sustainable, such as reducing the carbon footprint of anesthesia and supply chains, and offers a framework for community-level adaptation and professional advocacy.

The document examines the intersection of voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and gender equality in agriculture. It analyzes five major standards—Fairtrade International, IFOAM Organic, Rainforest Alliance, UTZ Certified, and the 4Cs—across six thematic areas: household food security, rights to productive resources, education, unpaid domestic labour, decision-making/empowerment, and decent work. The guide finds that while VSSs can improve wages and working conditions, they risk exacerbating inequalities if they prioritize cash crops over women's subsistence farming or increase women's unpaid labour burdens without providing childcare or gender-transformative training.

The document analyzes the intersection of voluntary sustainability standards (VSS), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and gender equality in agriculture. It evaluates five major standards—Fairtrade International, IFOAM (Organic), Rainforest Alliance, UTZ Certified, and 4Cs—across six key themes: household food security, access to productive resources, education, unpaid domestic work, decision-making/empowerment, and decent work. The guide finds that while VSS can indirectly improve women's status through increased income and sustainable practices, they can also inadvertently exacerbate inequalities if local gender dynamics are ignored, such as by prioritizing commercial crops over women's subsistence farming or increasing women's unpaid labor to meet certification quality requirements. It provides specific recommendations for development organizations to implement 'gender-transformative' approaches, including providing childcare during training and supporting women's land rights.

The document outlines a framework for effective climate communication in developing countries, emphasizing the need to link scientific data with local lived experiences. It provides guidance on audience segmentation, the use of 'demonstration effects' for adaptation solutions, and framing mitigation as an economic opportunity. The guide includes numerous case studies from regions such as India, Kenya, Peru, and Bangladesh, illustrating the use of creative tools like participatory theater, citizen mapping, and role-playing games to engage policymakers and marginalized groups.

The guide provides a comprehensive overview of green financing in the ASEAN region, detailing available debt and equity instruments, credit enhancement tools, and a step-by-step process for issuing green bonds, sukuk, and loans. It highlights the role of governments, banks, and development finance institutions in scaling up private capital to meet an estimated USD3tn green investment need by 2030.

The document analyzes the intersection of five major agricultural voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) and gender equality themes. It finds that while VSSs can improve working conditions for waged women and promote children's education, they risk exacerbating gender inequalities if they prioritize cash crops over women's subsistence farming or increase women's unpaid labor burdens without providing childcare or gender-transformative training.

The document analyzes the intersection of voluntary sustainability standards (VSS), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and gender equality in agriculture. It identifies six key themes—household food security, access to productive resources, education, unpaid domestic work, decision-making, and decent work—where VSS can either support or potentially hinder women's empowerment. The guide provides specific recommendations for development organizations to ensure VSS implementation is gender-transformative and does not exacerbate existing inequalities.

The document argues that simplistic stereotypes, such as the 'jihadi bride' narrative, fail to capture the complex motivations of women and girls radicalised to Islamist extremism. It identifies key drivers including the appeal of 'sisterhood', a desire for purpose, perceived religious duty, and reactions to social discrimination. The toolkit recommends a gender-sensitive, multi-agency approach to intervention, emphasizing trust-building, person-centred care, and the avoidance of gender biases. It details the UK's Channel programme and the Dutch 'Safety House' model as primary frameworks for these interventions.

The guide outlines a framework for moving away from presentation-heavy meetings toward participatory knowledge co-creation in the context of National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes. It details fundamentals of facilitation—including purpose, context, power dynamics, and monitoring—and provides specific methodologies for technical, relational, and reflexive interaction. These include expert presentations, participatory timelines, knowledge-sharing marketplaces, knowledge clinics, collective problem solving, and structured reflection.

The document argues that private sector engagement is essential for climate adaptation in developing countries, as businesses and investors drive economic growth and provide necessary products, services, and financing. It identifies four key enabling factors—information exchange, financing, institutional arrangements, and capacity development—that governments must address to overcome barriers to private sector participation. The guide outlines specific entry points for engagement across the three phases of the NAP process: planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E). It also provides case studies from countries such as Ghana, Kenya, and Jamaica to illustrate successful public-private collaborations in adaptation.

The document outlines a framework for facilitating peer learning among adaptation policy-makers to move away from passive, presentation-heavy meetings toward interactive knowledge exchange. It details seven core planning principles—purpose, context, people, power, place, process, and monitoring—and provides specific methodologies for technical, relational, and reflective interaction, such as 'Knowledge Clinics' and 'Participatory Timelines'. These methods were tested across seven Thematic Issue Forums involving government representatives from 23 countries to accelerate the development and implementation of National Adaptation Plans.

The guide outlines a framework for moving away from presentation-heavy meetings toward interactive peer-learning. It details seven core planning principles—objective, context, participants, power, venue, process, and monitoring—and provides five specific facilitation techniques: expert presentations, participatory timelines, knowledge marketplaces, knowledge clinics, and collective problem-solving. These methods are designed to balance technical input with relational and reflexive interactions to support the implementation of National Adaptation Plans in developing countries.

The guide 'Navigating Utility Business Model Reform' aims to support industry actors in implementing utility business model reforms by outlining foundational elements of various reform options, posing key questions for applicability, and identifying illustrative experiences and policy implementation options.

The document defines the virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) as a purely financial transaction where a corporate buyer guarantees a fixed price for renewable energy generation in exchange for renewable energy certificates (RECs) and a floating market price. Unlike physical PPAs, VPPAs do not involve the buyer taking ownership of physical electrons, allowing companies with distributed loads or those in regulated markets to meet sustainability goals without changing their retail utility relationship. The guide highlights that VPPAs are the fastest-growing transaction structure in the US corporate renewable energy market because they are scalable and accessible to buyers without energy trading expertise.