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The report examines the concept of 'Just Resilience' in Kenya, emphasizing the need for climate adaptation to prioritize equity and the voices of marginalized groups. It analyzes Kenya's existing legal and institutional frameworks, identifies vulnerabilities across different sectors and populations, and reviews several community-led adaptation projects. The document highlights significant barriers to achieving just resilience, including financial constraints, governance issues, and top-down decision-making, and provides recommendations for more inclusive, self-reliant, and transparent climate action.

The IPIE submission argues for the reduction of bureaucratic barriers and the strengthening of researcher rights under the Digital Services Act's data access framework. Based on a survey of scientific affiliates, the document identifies risks such as political capture of Digital Services Coordinators (DSCs), lack of transparency in data inventories, and restrictive interpretations of 'other sources' of data. Key recommendations include the implementation of a fast-track process for time-sensitive data, mandatory researcher participation in dispute settlements, and the requirement for DSCs to use English as a mandatory communication language to ensure cross-border scientific coordination.

The report outlines four cross-cutting recommendations for the Loss and Damage Fund: adopting participatory decision-making, creating direct access mechanisms for local actors, implementing 'learning-by-doing' capacity building, and adopting holistic approaches that prioritize human rights and non-economic losses. It identifies significant barriers to climate finance, including complex access procedures and limited local capacity, and advocates for a fund design that empowers marginalized groups and ensures rapid, flexible disbursement.

The report argues for a participatory, inclusive, and direct-access approach to the Loss and Damage Fund to ensure it reaches the most vulnerable communities. It recommends creating direct access windows for local actors to bypass slow national processes, adopting 'learning by doing' through small pilot projects to build institutional capacity, and expanding the scope of funding to include non-economic losses and human rights-based reparations.

The ACAP Gender Assessment identifies systemic gender inequalities in Pakistan's agricultural sector, where women provide essential but largely unpaid and unrecognized labor while facing severe barriers to land ownership, credit, and education. The report highlights that Pakistan ranks first in Asia on a climate-agriculture-gender inequality hotspot index, leaving rural women particularly vulnerable to climate disasters. To address this, ACAP intends to apply a gender lens to its investments using 2X Challenge criteria, provide technical assistance for female farmers, and require portfolio companies to implement Gender Action Plans and SEAH (sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment) protections.

The document details a multi-stakeholder approach to ending plastic pollution, emphasizing source reduction, reuse systems, and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). It advocates for a full life cycle approach that integrates environmental justice and data transparency to inform policy at local, state, and federal levels in the United States, while aligning with an upcoming global plastics treaty.

The document details the proceedings of the 2022 IISD Forum on Natural Infrastructure Performance and Metrics, focusing on the Canadian Prairies. It argues that while natural infrastructure (NI) is essential for water management, a lack of standardized metrics and economic valuation tools hinders its large-scale adoption. The report outlines a framework for scaling NI through improved data sharing, regional watershed-scale planning, the integration of Indigenous knowledge via 'Two-Eyed Seeing', and the use of economic valuation tools like SAVi to engage municipal decision-makers.

The document outlines a framework for a Just Energy Transition (JET) in Latin America, the Caribbean (LAC), and Africa, emphasizing the need to move beyond fossil fuel dependence toward sustainable, community-led energy systems. It identifies shared priorities between the regions, such as social participation and economic diversification, while noting distinct challenges: LAC focuses more on financing mechanisms and existing renewable capacity, whereas Africa emphasizes social justice, energy access for 600 million people, and the legacies of colonialism. The brief calls for a full phase-out of fossil fuels by 2040, grant-based climate finance, and safeguards for the extraction of transition minerals.

Carbon Market Watch (CMW) responds to a South Pole consultation on a new corporate claim, "Funding Climate Action - with Verified Climate Contributions." CMW supports moving away from "carbon neutral" claims but criticizes the continued use of a "tonne-for-tonne" approach, which it argues incentivizes low-quality, cheap credits. CMW proposes a "dollar for tonne" model and demands full financial transparency regarding the flow of funds from buyers to projects. The response also outlines six fundamental criteria for firms, including the requirement to demonstrate that emissions are truly "unabatable" and to account for all scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions before utilizing carbon credits.

The SEI Urban Toolbox for Liveable Cities is a living digital resource hosted on the weADAPT platform, designed to gather SEI-developed tools for city officials, residents, and community groups. Developed through a four-phase co-design process involving internal reviews and workshops with stakeholders in Thailand, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, and Colombia, the toolbox focuses on improving environmental conditions, health, and well-being. Key findings from stakeholder workshops emphasized a strong demand for tools that foster citizen science, participatory mapping, and open data access to inform decision-making. The toolbox organizes resources into four main domains: residents' wellbeing, neighbourhood conditions, environmental quality and ecosystem services, and cross-cutting issues.

The document argues that the steel and cement sectors in India are 'hard-to-abate' and require coordinated government, industry, and financial action to avoid carbon lock-in. Because breakthrough technologies (TRL 5-9) are currently commercially unviable and increase production costs—by up to 45% for steel and 80% for cement—market forces alone cannot drive their adoption. The authors recommend a policy mix of carbon pricing, public funding for demonstration pilots, capex subsidies, green public procurement, and embodied-carbon standards. Additionally, the brief emphasizes the need for a supporting enabling environment, including CO2 and hydrogen infrastructure, streamlined permitting, and concessional finance from international sources.

The document argues that financial service providers (FSPs) often avoid agricultural investments in developing countries due to perceived risks. It finds that while voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) provide high coverage for legal compliance, labor rights, and forest conservation, they lack sufficient criteria for economic viability, transparency, and climate adaptation. The brief recommends that FSPs integrate VSS into ESG due diligence and that governments provide land tenure and financial incentives to support VSS-compliant farmers.

The report outlines a two-tiered approach to an EU methane import standard: an initial prescriptive standard focusing on practices and technologies, followed by a more ambitious emission intensity standard. It argues that there are no insuperable legal obstacles to such a standard under WTO or UNFCCC rules, provided the EU applies equivalent burdens to domestic production. Key recommendations include using an equivalence principle for exporting countries and companies, implementing financial penalties for non-compliance, and establishing an EU methane fund to support mitigation in developing countries. The document also highlights the need for robust monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) and warns of 'methane leakage' where high-emitting gas is redirected to less regulated markets.

The document identifies technological, ethical, legal, and fragmentation barriers that inhibit public interest research on smaller and medium-sized platforms. It argues that current regulatory frameworks, such as the EU's Digital Services Act, primarily target very large platforms, leaving a gap in oversight for smaller platforms that may still pose significant risks. The author provides recommendations for platforms to standardize data access, for policy-makers to introduce legal 'safe harbours' for researchers, and for the research community to collaborate on tools and ethical frameworks.

This briefing outlines the progress of the Regional Assessment conducted by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI). The assessment aims to identify knowledge gaps and uncertainties in decisions impacted by global environmental change (GEC) to better target science and capacity-building efforts for Member Countries.

The project, implemented by Strategic Impact Advisors (SIA), began with a landscape survey of delivery mechanisms and mobile financial services in Nigeria, resulting in a May 2021 report and implementation roadmap. Phase II involves developing four concept notes—focused on community savings groups, payment segmentation for government and humanitarian flows, and foundational ID ecosystems—to drive the adoption of digital wallets in an open-loop payment ecosystem.

The report assesses the private debt landscape in Africa, noting that while the market is growing, it remains heavily dominated by Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) and Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), primarily in hard currency. It highlights a significant gap in local institutional investor participation due to regulatory constraints, risk aversion, and a lack of local currency vehicles. The study provides detailed analysis of focus markets—Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and Morocco—and uses South Africa as a reference for a more developed financial sector. Key recommendations include the introduction of credit enhancement facilities, improved data transparency, and the creation of local currency investment vehicles to reduce foreign exchange risk for borrowers and attract domestic pension funds.

Nigeria is not on track to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, with poverty and hunger projected to rise without significant intervention. The report identifies a massive financing gap, estimating that an additional USD 4.9 billion in annual public investment is required from 2023 to 2030 to achieve a sustainable food system transformation. This includes USD 2.3 billion from external donors and USD 2.6 billion from domestic resources. Key priorities include increasing agricultural productivity, integrating climate resilience, and transitioning to healthier diets through nutrition education and social protection. The report highlights a critical underfunding of long-term agricultural investments compared to short-term emergency food assistance.

The report outlines a framework for food systems transformation in southern Africa, emphasizing the need for a water-energy-food (WEF) nexus approach, the integration of indigenous knowledge, and the empowerment of women and youth. It identifies key leverage points for change, such as governance reform, sustainable rural livelihoods, and the adoption of climate-smart agriculture. The document recommends shifting from siloed sectoral approaches to systemic, multi-sectoral governance and suggests using 'futuring' methodologies to identify 'Seeds of Change'—small-scale innovative projects that can be upscaled to build regional resilience.

The document outlines a set of strategic recommendations for decarbonizing India's road freight sector based on consultations with over 20 industry experts. Key priorities include the implementation of production-linked subsidies, the development of viable financing structures for smaller lenders, and the creation of specific use cases to demonstrate the viability of electric freight vehicles in Indian conditions. The paper argues that India is well-positioned to lead commercial vehicle electrification due to its evolving domestic ecosystem and significant freight corridors, provided there is sufficient policy and regulatory support.