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This guide, published by Natural Justice, provides a comprehensive toolkit for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Southern Africa to navigate Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS) processes. It focuses on protecting Traditional Knowledge and natural resources, specifically highlighting the case of Aloe ferox, while explaining the legal frameworks, negotiation strategies, and conservation tools available to ensure fair and equitable benefits from the commercial or scientific use of biological resources.

The 'Manuel sur l’action climatique' is a guide published by Natural Justice designed to strengthen climate resilience in Senegal through legal empowerment. It provides communities with a framework to understand climate change, identify their specific vulnerabilities, and utilize political and legal instruments to defend their rights and protect the environment.

This guide by Natural Justice provides a comprehensive framework for establishing and managing community conservancies in Kenya. It details the legal requirements under the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act 2013 and the Community Land Act 2016, emphasizing the necessity of land registration before conservancy establishment to ensure tenure security. The document covers governance models, the development of management and business plans, strategies for equitable benefit-sharing, and the integration of traditional indigenous knowledge to combat climate change and biodiversity loss.

This report, produced by a partnership between the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), and the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), proposes a framework for an 'integrated land administration' system in South Africa. It argues that current land governance is fragmented, dualistic, and hindered by a legacy of racial segregation, which undermines land reform and social cohesion. The document defines land administration as the operational component of land governance and outlines the Integrated Land Administration Project (ILAP) to address these systemic failures through stakeholder engagement and institutional reform.

The South African Youth Gender Action Plan (SA YGAP) is a youth-led framework designed to guide decision-makers, civil society, and the private sector in creating a gender-inclusive society in South Africa. Developed by young people aged 13-30, the plan identifies gaps in existing national and global policies and proposes a seven-pillar approach to dismantle patriarchal and heteronormative structures across education, health, safety, and sustainable transformation.

The 'Jeug GIDS VIR NOODGEREEDHEID' is a guide developed by children and young people aged 13-25 across South Africa, in partnership between UNICEF and Youth@SAIIA. It provides a foundation for young citizens to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies, focusing on building social resilience and community capacity rather than professional first-responder training.

The G20 Energy Access Action Plan is a multi-phase voluntary collaboration framework designed to strengthen G20 member cooperation on energy access. The first phase specifically targets improving electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa through six strategic pillars: policy and regulatory environments, technology deployment, investment and finance, capacity building, regional integration, and coordination. The plan emphasizes sharing knowledge and good practices while respecting the sovereign right of nations to determine their own energy mix.

This executive summary outlines the economic and environmental imperatives for Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam to transition toward a zero-carbon economy. It highlights the region's growing reliance on coal, the potential for renewable energy to create jobs and reduce import costs, and proposes a five-step framework for shifting financial flows toward low-carbon development.

The revised Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) of Mali outlines the country's updated commitments to the Paris Agreement for the 2020-2030 period. Mali aims to maintain its status as a carbon sink while increasing its mitigation ambitions across four sectors: energy, agriculture, forestry and land-use change, and waste. The document details specific emission reduction targets, adaptation strategies to combat desertification and food insecurity, and a comprehensive financing and monitoring framework, with a strong emphasis on gender integration and the involvement of non-state actors.

The Stockholm Environment Institute's Water Beyond Boundaries (WBB) initiative seeks to establish a new agenda for sustainable water planning to address gaps in the existing Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) framework, specifically regarding scale, scope, and time.

This briefing describes the application of the Unlocking a Better Future (UBF) framework to develop a systemic roadmap for a just transition in Scotland. Commissioned by the Scottish Government to inform its new environment strategy, the project identifies necessary societal and economic shiftsC shifts to achieve a "net-zero, nature-positive" future through a methodology that maps existing policies against three transformative shifts: redefining the human-nature relationship, ensuring lasting prosperity for all, and investing in a sustainable future.

The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) has introduced the Water Beyond Boundaries (WBB) initiative to address gaps in Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM). WBB seeks to create a new agenda for sustainable water planning by focusing on tele-connections beyond the watershed, early integration of ecosystem needs, and multi-scale participatory approaches to address social inequalities.

The 'Menu of Voluntary Actions' outlines eight strategic areas where members of the Coalition of Trade Ministers on Climate intend to coordinate trade-related actions to address the climate crisis, focusing on inter-ministerial dialogue, WTO engagement, support for vulnerable developing countries, and private sector collaboration.

A fact sheet by Transforma outlining the concept of a Just Energy Transition (TEJ) in Latin America, emphasizing the need for decarbonization, community participation, and state-led long-term policies to combat climate change.

This World Resources Institute fact sheet provides a framework for comparing the cost-effectiveness of utility-scale renewable energy systems against traditional electricity supply options, focusing on the concept of cost parity from different economic perspectives.

This working paper by the World Resources Institute explores how climate finance can catalyze transformational change in low-carbon energy. By analyzing 20 case studies from developed and developing countries, the paper identifies the characteristics of systemic transformation, evaluates specific national experiences, and provides a planning framework and recommendations for recipient governments and development finance institutions.

This report by the World Resources Institute examines how public climate finance can be used to create the policy, institutional, industry, and financial conditions necessary to scale up private and public investment in low-carbon energy. Based on case studies from six developing countries, the report proposes a framework for 'readiness' activities and provides recommendations for international climate funds, specifically the Green Climate Fund.

The World Resources Institute report 'Jobs and Skills for the New Economy' advocates for a people-centered transition to a low-carbon economy. It argues that by prioritizing investments in jobs, skills, and social equity, leaders can achieve a 'triple dividend' of economic resilience, social cohesion, and environmental progress, while potentially generating a net increase of 375 million jobs over the next ten years.

This research paper provides a framework for designing a market-based, multi-sector cap-and-trade mechanism for the Midwest, following a 2007 agreement by ten governors to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

This report by the World Resources Institute provides actionable guidance for transit agencies and bus operating entities to overcome barriers to electric bus adoption and meet global climate objectives.