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The document identifies seven key intervention areas in the clean-energy sector: electricity generation, transmission and distribution, on-grid access, off-grid access, clean cooking, knowledge sharing, and policy reform. While utility-scale renewable generation has grown significantly, transmission bottlenecks and affordability constraints for end-users remain critical hurdles. The brief argues that while energy access is a necessary enabler for economic growth, it does not guarantee it, necessitating user-focused designs and long-term policy reforms to ensure sustainable impacts.

The Global Resilience Partnership, in collaboration with the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Future Earth, has released the 'Resilience Science Must-Knows'. This report distills decades of resilience research into nine core principles to help leaders in government, business, and international institutions navigate overlapping crises and volatility. The principles emphasize that resilience involves more than 'bouncing back', requiring the management of trade-offs, the addressing of power imbalances, and the cultivation of diversity and continuous learning. These findings were developed through engagement with over 120 researchers and 162 decision-makers. The framework serves as a precursor to the 'Resilience Road to Action', which will translate these broad principles into sector-specific guidelines for areas such as health, finance, and urban development.

The document examines how AI can support peacebuilding through early warning systems, digital dialogue, and humanitarian mapping, while warning against risks such as digital surveillance, misinformation, and algorithmic bias. It argues that AI must be treated as a supplementary tool governed by human rights and 'do no harm' principles, emphasizing the need for localized models and cross-sector collaboration to prevent the technology from exacerbating instability in fragile regions.

The report assesses the circular economy (CE) strategies of Bogotá and Buenos Aires, identifying a common over-reliance on waste management and a lack of holistic, long-term visions. It emphasizes the critical role of the informal waste sector, which supports millions of livelihoods in the region, and advocates for their formal integration into urban governance. Key recommendations include adopting the 10-R framework to move beyond recycling toward refusing and rethinking consumption, improving waste infrastructure, and implementing extended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes.

The report applies the 'Unlocking a Better Future' (UBF) framework to identify policy gaps in Scotland, proposing a holistic approach to transition the economy and society. It recommends strengthening human-nature connectedness, expanding nature-based education, exploring the 'Rights of Nature', and reforming national accounting to move beyond GDP. The document also emphasizes the need for a shift from top-down to bottom-up public engagement to ensure a just transition, while proposing specific indicators to track structural transformation.

The paper argues for greater interdisciplinary integration between natural and social sciences to understand rapidly changing human-landscape systems. It specifically examines how environmental policy research aligns with four key themes: thresholds and tipping points, spatial scales and boundaries, feedback loops, and time scales and lags, aiming to identify research complementarities for future collaborative work.

The paper bridges natural/social science research on adaptive capacity with public administration literature on collaborative governance. It identifies four shared dimensions of capacity—structural arrangements, leadership, knowledge and learning, and resources—and argues that collaborative capacities generate the adaptive capacities necessary for institutional adaptation. These concepts are illustrated through a case study of watershed management within the National Estuary Program.

The paper identifies that usable groundwater is rapidly decreasing globally due to mismanagement and climate change, posing a particular challenge for the nearly 600 transboundary aquifers. To address this, the authors propose five governance recommendations: enhancing flexible international mechanisms, addressing the need for data, prioritizing the precautionary principle and pollution prevention, integrating surface and subsurface water and land governance, and expanding the institutional capacity of binational or multinational actors.

The report examines how urban green space access is often socially determined by income, gender, and age, particularly in rapidly growing cities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It highlights that lower-income communities often prioritize provisioning services—such as food and fuel—over the aesthetic or health-related benefits typically emphasized in high-income contexts. The authors argue that top-down planning frequently fails these populations and can lead to gentrification or social opposition. Using a case study from the Nakuru River area in Kenya, the report identifies systemic barriers to community-led management, including unclear governmental responsibilities, funding shortfalls, and the influence of external NGOs. It concludes that equitable urban greening requires integrating infrastructure improvements and employment opportunities with participatory design that includes women, youth, and people with disabilities.

The paper examines the 'co-impacts'—both intended and unintended, positive and negative—of urban climate policies. It argues that current literature and city plans overemphasize positive co-benefits (such as improved air quality and health) while neglecting adverse effects and equity considerations. The authors propose a 'people, planet, and profit' framework to categorize these impacts across various urban strategies, including building retrofits, circular economy initiatives, and transport shifts, to help cities avoid policy backlash and ensure a just transition.

The document advocates for a transition from industrialised agriculture to African Indigenous Foodways (AIFs), which are rooted in traditional ecological knowledge and agroecological principles. It emphasises that knowledge co-creation between farmers and researchers is essential to overcome gaps in documentation and the 'epistemicide' of indigenous knowledge systems. The brief highlights the role of networks like the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) and the Seed and Knowledge Initiative (SKI) in promoting seed sovereignty. It identifies significant funding gaps, noting that philanthropic support for agroecological transition is less than 1% of total philanthropic food and agriculture funding. The authors recommend that philanthropy shift toward community-led investment models, long-term trust-based funding, and support for participatory research to enhance climate resilience and biodiversity conservation.

The brief argues that agrochemical use and misuse are increasing across Africa due to corporate profit motives, weak regulation, and climate change, posing severe risks to human health and the environment. It recommends strengthening governance, increasing investment in agroecology, and leveraging financial tools to reduce synthetic chemical dependence.

The report examines how voluntary sustainability initiatives (VSIs) in the mining sector address forest risks. It finds that while VSIs are growing in membership and scope, they often lack biome-specific language, fail to address the full mining lifecycle, and suffer from governance gaps and weak market incentives. The analysis of 20 VSIs reveals that about half do not explicitly recognize forest impacts. The report argues that VSIs must move beyond broad sustainability language to integrate specific criteria and collaborate with governments to raise regulatory baselines to effectively protect forests, especially as demand for energy transition minerals increases.

The document examines the dual-use nature of AI in peacebuilding, highlighting its ability to forecast violence and scale civic inclusion while warning against risks like digital surveillance, algorithmic bias, and the erosion of human-led diplomacy. It argues for a hybrid approach that combines AI tools with local expertise and strict ethical governance to ensure technology supports stability rather than deepening conflict.

The report examines the dual-use nature of AI in peacebuilding, highlighting its potential to enhance conflict forecasting, real-time mapping, and inclusive dialogue while warning against risks such as algorithmic bias, surveillance, and the erosion of human facilitation skills. It emphasizes that AI's effectiveness depends on a healthy information environment and a rights-based approach to design and governance.

The document examines the dual-use nature of AI in peacebuilding, highlighting its potential to improve early warning systems, civic engagement, and humanitarian mapping while warning against risks such as digital repression, algorithmic bias, and the erosion of human oversight. It argues that for AI to support peace rather than instability, it must be governed by human rights principles, transparency, and community participation.

The document explores the dual-use nature of AI in conflict zones, highlighting its potential to improve early warning systems, inclusive dialogue, and humanitarian mapping, while warning against its use for surveillance, disinformation, and repression. It argues that for AI to effectively support peacebuilding, it must be governed by human rights principles, transparency, and local community participation.

The document examines how AI can support peacebuilding through early warning systems, digital dialogue, and humanitarian mapping, while warning against risks such as digital surveillance, algorithmic bias, and the amplification of polarization. It argues that AI should be a complementary tool to human diplomacy, requiring governance rooted in human rights and community participation to avoid exacerbating instability.

The report outlines ten best practices for linear infrastructure (LI) development to mitigate impacts on nature. Key recommendations include conducting strategic environmental assessments (SEAs), incorporating mandatory safeguards in financial policies, and adhering to the mitigation hierarchy (avoid, minimize, restore, compensate). It emphasizes early integration of environmental and social impact assessments (ESIAs) and the use of climate vulnerability assessments. The document also advocates for wildlife-friendly designs, including ecological corridors, and the adoption of sustainable infrastructure certifications to ensure long-term ecological integrity.

The document defines transboundary climate risks (TCRs) as climate impacts or mitigation/adaptation actions in one jurisdiction that create threats in another. It synthesizes existing evidence and new data analysis to assess India's exposure to these 'next generation' risks, including those cascading from the Hindu Kush Himalaya region. The authors call for comprehensive research into the socio-economic implications of TCRs—ranging from vulnerable households to national economic growth—and recommend the establishment of regional institutional mechanisms to enhance adaptation cooperation.