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The document outlines a methodology for creating community protocols through an inclusive, culturally responsive process. It categorizes tools into four types—textual, visual, verbal, and dramatic—and organizes them across five key elements: the facilitator's perspective, community background, the process of development, the outcome, and the legal landscape. The guide emphasizes the importance of building trust, ensuring the inclusion of marginalized groups, and adapting methods to the community's comfort levels and traditional forms of expression. Specific exercises are provided to map territories, analyze power dynamics, identify stakeholders, and assess the impacts of extractive or infrastructure projects.

The PETRODATA codebook describes a global dataset of onshore and offshore hydrocarbon reserves covering 1946–2003. It explains the transition from point data to generalized polygons to make the data practical for GIS analysis and conflict research, and defines 20 variables including discovery and production years.

The document describes the DIADATA dataset, which lists diamond occurrences worldwide, including geographic coordinates, geological forms, and dates of discovery and production. It details the data collection process from academic, governmental, and industry sources, and explains the coding structure for variables such as geological form (primary, secondary, or marine) and production status. Additionally, it describes a 'compact version' of the dataset where sites within 50 km are aggregated into multipoints to reduce missing temporal data. The document includes detailed country profiles for 53 countries, outlining their diamond discovery and production histories.

The Handbook on Governance Statistics, developed by the Praia Group, establishes a framework for measuring governance through eight dimensions: non-discrimination and equality, participation, openness, access to and quality of justice, responsiveness, absence of corruption, trust, and safety and security. It emphasizes a Human Rights-Based Approach to Data (HRBAD) and advocates for the use of triangulated data sources, including administrative records, household surveys, and expert assessments. The document provides specific recommended indicators, many aligned with SDG 16, and offers technical guidance on mitigating biases in subjective measurements of trust, responsiveness, and corruption.

The document examines migrant transnationalism—the ties and practices migrants maintain across borders—across economic, sociocultural, and political dimensions. It advocates for a 'transnational lens' to move beyond 'methodological nationalism,' which assumes the nation-state is the only relevant unit of analysis. Key areas of focus include the role of remittances, the impact of digital technologies on 'co-presence,' the dynamics of transnational families, and the interaction between transnational engagement and integration into host societies. The authors argue that transnationalism is not a zero-sum game with integration and can provide significant 'mobility capital' and resources for migrants.

The text outlines the methodological evolution of human geography, moving from early regional descriptive studies to the quantitative revolution of the 1960s and 70s, and subsequently to humanist, Marxist, and postmodernist traditions. It details qualitative tools such as semi-structured interviews, focus groups, participant observation, and discourse analysis, while explaining quantitative techniques including descriptive statistics, regression models, and the challenge of geographic dependency. Additionally, it describes GIS as a tool for spatial analysis, distinguishing between vector and raster data and addressing the 'spatial scale' problem.

The document describes the stock turnover analysis methodology in LEAP, which is used when energy-using devices have long lifetimes or changing operating characteristics. It details two specific approaches: one for the transport sector, calculating consumption based on vehicle stock, mileage, and fuel economy, and another for general energy-using equipment, based on device stock and energy intensity. Both methods utilize lifecycle profiles to account for changes in device performance and survival rates as they age.

The document describes a methodology for calculating transport energy consumption based on vehicle stocks, annual mileage, and fuel economy. It explains how the LEAP software handles base year stocks, future projections, and lifecycle profiles to determine overall energy and environmental impacts, noting that this specific method allows for emission factors to be specified per unit of distance traveled.

The document provides a step-by-step methodology for a participatory exercise designed to clarify misunderstood or unfamiliar terms related to weather, climate, adaptation, mitigation, development, and disaster risk reduction. It outlines the logistical requirements, the process for using concept and action cards to stimulate discussion, and specific definitions to guide facilitators in correcting misconceptions.

The document describes a transdisciplinary workshop activity aimed at creating a "level playing field" of knowledge by clarifying often-misunderstood climate terms. It outlines a process where participants categorize statements to distinguish between weather, climate, adaptation, mitigation, disaster risk reduction, and development. The briefing highlights benefits such as increased receptivity to climate science and improved stakeholder ability to articulate information needs, illustrated by a case study in Windhoek, Namibia, where the activity supported the development of the city's first Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan.

The document outlines a strategy to minimize conflict in renewable energy deployment by identifying 'energy soils'—areas with high technical potential and low social or environmental sensitivity. It proposes a participatory process involving local energy planning, community engagement, and the establishment of energy communities to ensure social acceptance and shared benefits.

The guidebook outlines a framework for apparel companies to transition to circular reuse models while avoiding greenwashing. It emphasizes increasing garment utilization, ensuring a lower lifecycle impact compared to traditional models, and displacing the sale of new clothing to decouple business success from resource consumption.

The document is a guide for technical staff, consultants, and industry associations on adapting GHG Protocol calculation tools to improve data quality and user adoption.

The document argues that technical capacity and economic wealth are insufficient to ensure ambitious climate action, as 'political will' is often obstructed by vested interests. It proposes a systematic assessment of political and institutional contexts, ideologies, and narratives to help stakeholders build political power and develop strategies for enacting durable, ambitious policies. The guide specifically addresses the needs of multi-sector national coalitions facing challenges in cross-sector coordination, accountability systems, and policy monitoring.

The document outlines a structured approach for civil society organizations (CSOs) to monitor adaptation finance, moving from national context analysis to the design of local tracking tools, in order to hold governments and donors accountable.

The World Resources Institute (WRI) has developed a cost-efficient MRV framework for land restoration that integrates local practitioner knowledge with high-resolution satellite imagery and artificial intelligence. Tested across more than 200 projects via the TerraFund partnership in Africa, the approach uses nine indicator categories to capture biophysical, socioeconomic, and financial data. By utilizing the DINOv3 AI model and satellite data, WRI estimates that independent verification costs can be reduced by up to 98% compared to traditional field inventories. The framework is designed for replication across various ecosystems and has already been adapted for use in India and Brazil to support outcome-based finance mechanisms.

The document outlines how estimating the costs of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) allows governments to identify financing gaps and select appropriate financial instruments. It details various costing methodologies—including econometric, macroeconomic, and integrated assessment models—and highlights the challenges of data gaps and uncertainty. Case studies from Colombia, South Africa, and Indonesia illustrate the application of these tools in national planning.

The document outlines a data-intensive process for local governments to match electricity demand with carbon-free energy resources on an hourly basis. It identifies three essential datasets: hourly load data, hourly grid mix and emissions data, and hourly generation data from additional energy procurements. The guide details four methods for obtaining load data—ranging from actual meter readings to machine learning models—and directs users to resources like the EIA and NREL for grid and emissions information.

The GFI Guidance Manual establishes a framework for assessing forest governance by evaluating actors, rules, and practices against five principles of good governance: transparency, participation, accountability, coordination, and capacity. It provides a structured approach to designing assessments, collecting mixed-methods data, and analyzing results across six thematic areas: forest tenure, land use, forest management, forest revenues, cross-cutting institutions, and cross-cutting issues.

The GHG Protocol for Project Accounting establishes a framework for project developers to credibly quantify GHG reductions by comparing project emissions against a counter-factual baseline. It details two primary baseline procedures—project-specific and performance standard—and emphasizes the importance of defining a GHG assessment boundary that includes both primary and significant secondary effects. The guide outlines six core accounting principles (relevance, completeness, consistency, transparency, accuracy, and conservativeness) and provides detailed requirements for monitoring and reporting reductions to ensure environmental integrity and transparency.