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A technical guide for exporters of goods covered by the European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (EU CBAM), specifically focusing on steel and aluminum, detailing cost calculations, emissions reporting, and the impact of domestic carbon pricing.

This guide describes the First and Second Loss Capital Facility, a credit enhancement tool designed to attract investment into high-risk climate sectors by using concessional or donor capital to absorb initial losses.

This technical guide by RMI analyzes the voluntary carbon market (VCM) for improved rice cultivation, focusing on the transition from invalidated CDM-based credits to more rigorous new methodologies. It details the primary and secondary practices used to reduce methane emissions, evaluates quality risks such as additionality and MRV, and provides guidance for stakeholders to identify high-integrity projects.

This technical explainer by RMI analyzes the voluntary carbon market (VCM) for ozone-depleting substances (ODS) recovery and destruction credits. It details how these projects provide high-additionality climate benefits by permanently destroying potent greenhouse gases like CFCs, while identifying significant logistical, legal, and technical barriers to scaling, particularly in developing nations.

This technical guide, produced by the Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE) with support from ADEME, provides a reference for designing and installing solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems for healthcare facilities in rural sub-Saharan Africa.

This briefingS briefing from the World Resources Institute explains five different heat metrics—land surface temperature, air temperature, heat index, wet bulb globe temperature, and thermal comfort indices—and how they serve different purposes for urban planning and public health. It argues that while traditional metrics provide regional or surface-level data, thermal comfort indices are necessary forSSS to understand the local, human-scale experience of heat and to design effective interventions like shade and green space.

This technical guide provides a comprehensive framework for the design, installation, and management of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems for rural health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa. It outlines the roles of various stakeholders, technical dimensioning formulas, financing models, and maintenance protocols to ensure the long-term sustainability of energy services in health centers.

This guide describes the Energy Policy Simulator (EPS), a free, open-source System Dynamics computer model developed by Energy Innovation to help policymakers evaluate the effectiveness of climate and energy policies on greenhouse gas emissions, economic outcomes, and public health.

This guide by RMI explains the role of ammonia (NH3) in the energy transition, detailing its current fossil-fuel-based production, the transition to low-carbon 'colors' of ammonia, and its potential as a zero-carbon fuel for maritime shipping and a carrier for hydrogen transport.

The Climate Bonds Standard version 4.2 (CBS v4.2) is a voluntary labelling scheme designed to certify debt instruments, assets, and non-financial legal entities to ensure they are consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement. It provides a science-based framework and sector-specific criteria to mobilise global capital for climate action through four primary certification pathways: Use of Proceeds (UoP), Asset, Entity, and Sustainability-Linked Debt (SLD).

The 'Essential Monitor’s Guide for Prairie Water Retention' is a technical guidebook published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in February 2024. It provides a framework for monitoring the water quantity and quality of water retention projects—natural infrastructure designed for flood and drought mitigation, water quality improvement, and biodiversity enhancement. The guide details the necessity of water and contaminant mass balances, recommends specific monitoring tools and equipment, and explains how to use rating curves and automated samplers to collect data in the challenging environments of the Canadian Prairies.

This guide explains the concept of resource adequacy (RA) and the implementation of the Resource Adequacy Planning Framework released by India's Ministry of Power in June 2023 to ensure grid reliability amidst growing electricity demand and renewable energy integration.

The 'Electrification Data Methodology 2024 Overview' by Ember describes the technical framework used to quantify the impact of electrification in the road transport and residential heating sectors. The methodology focuses on calculating electricity demand, primary fossil fuel displacement, and emissions displaced, utilizing real-world data on vehicle stocks, heat pump deployment, and energy efficiency factors.

This guide by Zero Carbon Analytics explains the role of heat pumps in decarbonising buildings and industry, detailing their technical operation, economic viability, and the policy barriers to their global adoption.

This guide, produced by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the OECD, provides a transfer pricing framework to help tax administrations in resource-rich developing countries accurately value mineral sales between related parties. It focuses on the application of the Comparable Uncontrolled Price (CUP) method to ensure that minerals are priced on an arm's length basis, thereby reducing base erosion and profit-shifting risks.

This guide, published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the OECD, provides a framework for tax administrations in resource-rich developing countries to determine the arm's length price of minerals sold between related parties. It focuses on the application of the Comparable Uncontrolled Price (CUP) method to mitigate the risk of base erosion and profit shifting in the mining sector.

This guide, published by the Stockholm Environment Institute in 2021, provides a framework for the integrated development of small islands near cities into 'eco-islands'—sustainable tourism destinations. Based on projects on Aegna and Vasikkasaari, it outlines a strategic planning process involving visioning, sustainability assessment, and the implementation of 'smart solutions' such as digital monitoring and citizen science to balance tourism with environmental preservation.

The Climate Bonds Taxonomy is a science-based guide published by the Climate Bonds Initiative to identify assets and projects compatible with a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy aligned with the Paris Agreement's 2-degree Celsius warming target. It provides a 'traffic light' system to categorize assets as automatically compatible (green), potentially compatible (orange), incompatible (red), or requiring further work (grey), serving as the basis for the Climate Bonds Standard certification process.

The CFAS Guide, published in November 2014 by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network, provides a technical synopsis of climate finance negotiations under the UNFCCC to support stakeholders participating in the 20th Conference of the Parties (COP20) in Lima, Peru. It details the status of long-term finance goals, the operationalization of the Green Climate Fund, the financial constraints of the Adaptation Fund, and the role of the Standing Committee on Finance in improving the measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) of climate finance flows.

This guide provides building professionals with strategies and technologies for Low Carbon, Climate Resilient (LCCR) construction in semi-arid climates, using Madhya Pradesh as a model. It details the environmental impacts of the construction sector, passive design principles for thermal comfort, and specific alternative building materials and techniques to reduce embodied energy and carbon emissions.