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The document argues that traditional corporate climate leadership, focused on 'net zero' and offsets, is insufficient to address the climate crisis. It introduces the 'Drawdown-Aligned Business Framework,' which urges employees to advocate for comprehensive changes across eight leverage points: emissions reductions, stakeholder engagement, procurement, investments, disclosures, policy advocacy, business model transformation, and long-term thinking. The guide emphasizes that every job must become a 'climate job' and that companies must prioritize climate justice and the elimination of fossil fuel dependencies to achieve drawdown—the point when atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations begin to steadily decline.

The Manila Investment Policy Forum Toolkit offers a two-step framework for governments to align investment treaties, laws, and contracts with international commitments. The first step involves mapping international agreements across policy areas such as climate and human rights, while the second step evaluates how specific investment legal provisions support, are neutral toward, or contradict those commitments. The guide emphasizes adaptability and suggests integrating the tool within institutional coordination mechanisms to mitigate regulatory inconsistencies and litigation risks.

The document examines the role of legal frameworks in governing foreign direct investment (FDI) and critiques traditional investment treaties and the ISDS system. It argues that these frameworks often prioritize investor protections over public interests, creating a 'regulatory chill' and imposing high financial burdens on states, particularly in the context of the energy transition. The guide proposes a shift toward treaties focused on cooperation and sustainable development, while detailing various national, bilateral, and multilateral reform strategies.

The Manila Investment Policy Forum Tool Kit offers a two-step framework for governments to ensure horizontal coherence between investment regulations and broader public policy goals. The first step involves mapping international commitments (such as the Paris Agreement) across policy domains like climate, health, and human rights. The second step is a comparative analysis to determine if specific investment treaties, laws, or contracts align with, are neutral toward, or contradict these commitments. The tool is designed to be flexible and is most effective when integrated into institutional coordination mechanisms, such as inter-ministerial committees, to facilitate informed reforms of investment legal frameworks.

The document provides a comprehensive guide to debt-for-climate (DFC) swaps, which are financial operations where public debt is cancelled, exchanged, or refinanced in return for policy commitments to invest savings into environmental conservation, mitigation, or adaptation. It distinguishes between official bilateral swaps and trilateral commercial swaps, highlighting recent large-scale examples in Ecuador, Belize, and Seychelles. The primer emphasizes that DFC swaps are most effective when limited fiscal space is the primary barrier to climate investment, rather than in cases of extreme debt distress. It also outlines the critical roles of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), Policy Development Banks (PDBs), and National Development Banks (NDBs) in providing credit enhancements, monitoring KPIs, and building government capacity.

The document explains that climate-resilient debt clauses (CRDCs) are contractual agreements that allow countries to temporarily postpone debt repayments following natural disasters, providing essential liquidity for emergency response. It details the design of these instruments—including parametric and proxy triggers—and discusses their adoption by Caribbean small island developing states and various multilateral development banks. The guide highlights challenges such as trigger identification and portfolio risk for regional banks, while providing a decision tree to help development finance institutions assess the feasibility of offering CRDCs.

RMI outlines five key factors—facility suitability, electricity costs/net metering, energy efficiency, battery sizing, and available funding—to help US communities deploy solar-plus-battery microgrids that serve as resilience hubs during disasters.

The We Mean Business Coalition's Corporate Climate Policy Engagement Reporting Template guides companies through establishing a baseline, analyzing advocacy activities, and publicly disclosing their alignment with 1.5°C climate goals. It emphasizes the need for board oversight, cross-departmental collaboration, and the management of indirect advocacy through trade associations to ensure corporate lobbying supports science-aligned climate policy pathways.

The document defines environmental justice as the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race or income in ensuring healthy environments. Climate justice extends these principles to address the disproportionate impacts of climate change on marginalized communities and the responsibility of wealthier nations. Energy justice frames access to clean, affordable energy as a human right and advocates for an equitable transition away from fossil fuels.

The document outlines the critical role of oceans in absorbing heat and carbon, the resulting environmental and socioeconomic crises, and offers strategic advice for journalists to improve the depth and justice-orientation of ocean reporting.

The document outlines the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of ocean warming and acidification, while offering strategic advice for journalists to move beyond reactive coverage toward sustained, justice-oriented reporting on marine ecosystems.

The document argues that carbon markets are 'false climate solutions' that enable big polluters to continue emitting greenhouse gases through 'greenwashing' while causing land grabbing and human rights violations in the Global South. It details how carbon credits are generated from nature-based solutions and 'techno-fixes', warns communities about deceptive contracts and the failure of industry 'safeguards', and provides a framework for resistance based on climate justice and the right to say no.

The guide defines conflict-sensitive Nature-based Solutions (NbS) as adaptation activities designed to increase the resilience of ecosystems and communities while accounting for the causes, actors, and dynamics of conflict. It warns that NbS can inadvertently exacerbate tensions by introducing economic burdens, restricting livelihood access, or creating perceived inequalities in benefit distribution. To mitigate these risks, the document advocates for a participatory process involving women and underrepresented groups to ensure co-design and ownership. The proposed framework for conflict-sensitive NbS follows a cycle of assessment, design, implementation, and monitoring, requiring a conflict analysis alongside traditional climate vulnerability and risk assessments to identify potential triggers and peacebuilding opportunities.

The document describes the Paris Agreement's 'ambition cycle' as a four-stage iterative process: formulation of long-term strategies (LTS) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), implementation, monitoring via Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs), and collective evaluation through the Global Stocktake (GST). It emphasizes the need for alignment between short-term NDCs and long-term net-zero goals, while warning against over-reliance on carbon markets and carbon capture technologies. The guide provides a national implementation roadmap and case studies from Costa Rica, the United Kingdom, Colombia, and Panama to illustrate best practices in climate governance and transparency.

The 'One Food' toolkit by WWF South Africa promotes a holistic approach to farming that integrates human, animal, and environmental health. It identifies risks such as invasive alien plants, livestock diseases, and climate-driven hazards like heat waves and floods. The guide provides specific actionable advice for livestock and crop farmers, emphasizing agroecology, rotational grazing, and natural pest control to enhance biodiversity and climate resilience.

The Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) proposes a structured approach to create Climate Finance Roadmaps that match the risk profiles of specific regions and sectors with the preferences and capacities of public and private investors. The framework moves from identifying financing gaps and assessing investment risks to determining the necessary capital mix and estimating future finance flows. It aims to provide actionable guidance for policymakers and capital allocators to mobilize finance at scale, particularly in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) and underserved sectors like agriculture and industry.

The Climate Investment Planning and Mobilization Framework, developed by the NDC Partnership and the Green Climate Fund, outlines a six-stage process to bridge the gap between climate planning and implementation. It is structured into two main pillars: Investment Planning (Stages 1-3) and Finance Mobilization (Stages 4-6). The framework emphasizes the integration of financial planning with policymaking, the use of evidence-based decision-making, and the creation of enabling environments to attract public, private, and blended finance. It highlights the critical role of central coordination, stakeholder engagement, and iterative feedback loops to ensure that climate investments are socially just, sustainable, and aligned with Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), and Long-Term Low-Emission Development Strategies (LT-LEDS).

The document establishes a reference framework for financial actors to evaluate power utility transition plans across four categories: emissions reduction, energy planning, capital expenditure (CAPEX), and climate planning. It argues that for a plan to be 1.5°C-aligned, utilities must commit to a carbon-neutral power sector by 2035 in Europe and OECD countries (2040 elsewhere), implement plant-by-plant closure plans for fossil fuels without sales or conversions, and dedicate over 86% of CAPEX to sustainable technologies by 2030. The guide also recommends that financial institutions implement sectoral exclusion policies for fossil gas and achieve a 6:1 financing ratio in favor of sustainable power over fossil fuels by 2030.

The document outlines a comprehensive framework for local governments to scale the deployment of air-source and ground-source heat pumps and heat pump water heaters. It details a five-step methodology: building a diverse program team and setting goals, engaging and qualifying local contractors, designing affordable incentive and financing structures, executing community outreach, and managing program launch and impact tracking. The guide emphasizes equity, specifically targeting low-to-moderate income (LMI) and frontline communities, and leverages federal incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).

The document explains the mechanics of flash droughts, the role of human-caused climate change in exacerbating water scarcity, and the disproportionate impact of these events on marginalized communities and ecosystems. It offers practical guidance for reporters to connect local drought conditions to global climate trends and provides a list of data sources and experts.