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The document examines the transition of the U.S. electric power sector toward a high-renewable energy future, specifically referencing NREL's goal of 80 percent renewable generation by 2050. It identifies pressures such as aging infrastructure, environmental regulations, and flat load growth that necessitate a new 'social compact' between utilities and regulators. The authors propose a spectrum of utility roles—ranging from a minimal 'wires company' to a maximum 'energy services utility'—and suggest shifting from traditional cost-of-service regulation to performance-based models like the UK's RIIO, the Iowa settlement model, or a comprehensive 'Grand Bargain' to incentivize efficiency and decarbonization.

The 'Living Indus' project seeks USD 25 million in GCF grants to implement a programmatic framework for ecological restoration in Pakistan. The initiative focuses on two pillars: governance, which includes the creation of a 'Living Indus Act' and provincial masterplans, and investment, targeting the Sindh Province. Planned interventions include restoring mangrove and riverine forests, rehabilitating wetlands, and promoting climate-smart agriculture such as biosaline farming. The project aims to benefit 1.18 million direct beneficiaries and remove approximately 2.9 million tCO2eq through carbon sequestration in restored forests.

The Green Economy Coalition (GEC) aims to accelerate the transition to a green, fair, and inclusive economy by acting as a bridge between business, civil society, and government. The GEC operates as a global movement of over 50 organisations, focusing on four core activities: building a narrative of change, stimulating policy across five thematic areas, mobilising national leadership through dialogue, and expanding its network of allies. Its thematic priorities include reforming financial systems, greening economic sectors, tackling inequality, valuing nature, and improving economic measurement and governance.

The Economics for Nature (E4N) partnership (2016-2022) worked to integrate natural capital into economic and business decision-making to protect and restore biodiversity. The report identifies that while the concept of natural capital helps make nature 'material' for policymakers and businesses, systemic change is hindered by a lack of a globally agreed definition of a successful economy and a divergence in capacity between the Global North and South. Key achievements include the development of the Green Economy Tracker, the '3-returns' investment framework, and the mainstreaming of natural capital into the EU Green Deal and African Development Bank programmes. The report concludes that future progress requires putting people and Indigenous Peoples at the heart of economic design, institutionalising natural capital accounting, pursuing systemic economic reform, and scaling nature-based solutions.

The policy brief contends that existing social contracts are broken due to rising inequality and distrust in institutions, which undermines climate resilience. It proposes building an intersectional alliance of climate and inequality champions to redefine a social contract that integrates climate justice, decent work, and human rights to facilitate a fair green transition. The document highlights various global examples of this shift, including citizen assemblies in France and legal challenges in South Africa.

The document advocates for the adoption of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a 'shared language' to harmonise fragmented sustainability data across governments, businesses, and investors. It identifies three primary barriers to this alignment: the proliferation of disconnected datasets, tenuous links between data suppliers and users, and data inequalities affecting the poorest populations. To overcome these, the report proposes five principles: setting direction through benchmarking, connecting stakeholders, sharing open data, integrating goals into institutional DNA, and communicating progress through integrated reporting. The text highlights the systemic risk of ignoring these goals, using the 2011 Thailand floods as an example of how environmental shocks create global economic disruptions.

The COP30 Resilience Hub Report details the outcomes of the climate summit in Belém, Brazil, highlighting a mix of incremental progress and persistent gaps in adaptation finance and implementation. Key achievements include the adoption of 59 indicators for the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), a political commitment to triple adaptation finance by 2035, and the establishment of a Global Just Transition Mechanism. The report also showcases Peru's national resilience model, which integrates Indigenous governance and a comprehensive 'Country Package for forests and nature'. However, it notes significant misalignments between short-term political/financial cycles and long-term climate risks, and emphasizes that less than 1% of climate finance currently reaches Indigenous peoples and local communities.

The Resilience Knowledge Coalition is a "network of networks" hosted by the Global Resilience Partnership and co-led by SouthSouthNorth and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development. It aims to ensure that the best knowledge and practice on resilience are used to shape policies and investments, particularly in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The coalition operates through three interrelated functions: 'Collaborate' (peer-to-peer learning and capacity building), 'Connect' (virtual knowledge-sharing platforms), and 'Apply' (measurement, incubation, and scaling support). It emphasizes a bottom-up approach, prioritizing Global South demand and expertise to avoid the top-down, donor-driven models of previous knowledge-brokering initiatives.

The Green Economy Strategy Framework for the Western Cape focuses on driving business opportunity and investment to become the "lowest carbon province & leading green economic hub of the African continent". Key priorities include renewable energy, where 60% of the 64 REIPPP projects were developed by Western Cape-based developers, and the Atlantis SEZ, which attracted Gestamp with a R220 million investment expected to create 200 permanent jobs. The framework also highlights the WISP initiative, which completed 11 business synergies in six months, and special initiatives such as the Better Living Challenge, a GREEN Finance Support facility, and RIA Waste to support green job creation.

The IAI Science Policy Advisory Committee (SPAC) was established to develop a strategy for linking scientific work with policy-making communities, specifically focusing on adaptation strategies, methodologies, and tools for the Americas. The committee proposes six overarching principles to guide its work: beginning with users' needs, prioritizing processes over products, linking information producers and users, building cross-disciplinary connections, seeking institutional stability, and designing for learning. The IAI aims to act as a 'boundary organization' to facilitate information flow between research and public policy. Medium-term priorities include managing the multidimensionality of global change, addressing scientific uncertainty through mutual learning, integrating stakeholder value differences, and utilizing adaptive management tools.

The IAI Science-Policy Advisory Committee (SPAC) aims to bridge the gap between scientific research and policy-making to enable more informed adaptation decisions in the Americas. The committee proposes a strategy based on six core principles: starting with user needs, prioritizing processes over products, connecting information producers with users, building interdisciplinary connections, ensuring institutional stability, and designing for continuous learning. The IAI intends to evolve into a 'boundary organization' and knowledge broker, utilizing tools like 'deliberation with analysis' to manage scientific uncertainty and diverse stakeholder values in the context of global environmental change.

The IAI STeP Fellowship Pilot Program (2020-2024) provides a professional development framework for scientists and policymakers in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The program is structured around three training pillars: Science Diplomacy, Communication, and Leadership. It aims to equip fellows with the soft skills and transdisciplinary approaches necessary to inform policy on global change and sustainable development. The plan includes specific learning objectives, such as writing policy briefs and mastering science diplomacy, and establishes a networking strategy to foster multinational collaboration and create an alumni impact database.

The ANDEX program, established in 2018 under the GEWEX and WCRP frameworks, aims to strengthen the resilience of Andean societies by improving hydroclimatic research and forecasting. The program focuses on two primary challenges: improving water security for approximately 90 million people and reducing risks from high-impact hydroclimatic events. To achieve this, ANDEX promotes regional cooperation among scientists from seven Andean countries to address issues such as glacial retreat, deforestation, and weak monitoring networks, ultimately providing evidence-based tools for decision-makers to support sustainable development.

The document outlines the objectives of ANDEX (Regional Hydroclimatic Program for the Andes), an initiative under the GEWEX and WCRP frameworks. It identifies critical threats to the Andean region, including climate change, deforestation, and land-use changes, which jeopardize the water and food security of approximately 90 million people. ANDEX aims to bridge the gap between the scientific community and operational services to improve hydro-meteorological monitoring and forecasting. The program focuses on two primary goals: improving water security for Andean populations and reducing risks from high-impact hydroclimatic events through evidence-based tools and regional cooperation.

This briefing note outlines a three-stage guidance process developed by RCS Global and the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining (IGF) to help governments in developing countries manage the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector. The framework aims to improve miners' quality of life and the sector's contribution to sustainable development while mitigating environmental harm.

The document serves as a practical handbook for climate negotiators, particularly those from the Global South who may lack institutional support. It covers the scientific basis of climate change, the evolution of the international regime from the 1992 UNFCCC to the Paris Agreement, and the procedural rules of the COP. A significant portion of the guide is dedicated to negotiation theory, offering strategies for 'disadvantaged' negotiators to overcome resource gaps and power imbalances through coalition building, integrative negotiation techniques, and precise drafting skills.

The IISD Impact Centre aims to act as a catalyst for sustainable development by leveraging the International Institute for Sustainable Development's (IISD) networks to scale field-tested innovations. Rather than creating new formal structures, the Centre focuses on increasing the impact of existing projects through strategy, capacity building, and knowledge sharing. It targets areas including climate change, energy, and trade, and seeks to become self-sustaining within three years through a "Circle of Friends" partnership model. Current demonstration projects include the CRiSTAL Tool for climate change adaptation and economic valuation training for the United Nations Environment Programme.

The report by Unge Kunstneres Samfund outlines three primary strategies for artist organizations to address the climate crisis: integrating climate action into professional political work, establishing and maintaining networks, and fostering 'climate utopias' through creative responses. It emphasizes the link between climate justice and artists' working conditions, suggesting that sustainability must encompass both material and social issues, including the adoption of circular material use in exhibition production. The framework utilizes a classification of approaches—dutiful, disruptive, or dangerous—adapted from Karen O’Brien and Julie’s Bicycle to guide organizational planning and prioritization.

The document outlines three strategic approaches for artist unions to address the climate crisis: integrating climate action into core union work, building and sustaining networks, and fostering a 'climate utopia' through radical imagination. It provides a framework for categorising actions as 'dutiful', 'disruptive', or 'dangerous' and includes a toolkit of workshop exercises and a mapping of existing and needed capacities for artist organisations.

The NAP Global Network's 2025-2030 Strategic Framework focuses on shifting national adaptation plans (NAPs) from planning to implementation. The strategy employs three reinforcing approaches: building systems (policy, coordination, and results frameworks), using levers (fiscal measures, public procurement, trade policy, and blended finance), and engaging diverse actors (finance ministries, subnational governments, civil society, and the private sector). The Network intends to provide embedded technical capacity, multi-year partnerships, and flexible on-demand support, with a specific focus on least developed countries, Small Island Developing States, and conflict-affected contexts.