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The guide outlines the structure and requirements for GCF country programmes, which serve as the foundation for prioritizing climate projects and mobilizing finance. It details five essential components: country context, climate finance strategy, priority GCF projects, institutional needs, and stakeholder engagement. The document emphasizes alignment with national climate plans (such as NDCs and NAPs) and collaboration with Accredited Entities to transform priorities into funding proposals.

The document argues that while ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is a cost-effective pillar of nature-based solutions, it remains underused due to economic paradigms, lack of political will, and financing gaps. It positions the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process as the primary strategic vehicle to mainstream EbA across sectors and levels of government. The guide provides eight guiding principles for integration, ranging from using ecosystem-level vulnerability assessments to ensuring long-term financing and inclusive, participatory planning.

The document defines natural infrastructure as managed natural systems designed to provide environmental and human benefits, such as wetlands and forests. It identifies a gap between early-stage valuation and actual project finance, suggesting that success depends on identifying specific drivers, lead beneficiaries, and securing catalyst funding. It recommends that funders support targeted research, performance metrics, and pre-development efforts to scale these investments.

The document is a practical handbook designed to help parliamentarians and their advisors promote responsible investments in agriculture and food systems to ensure social, economic, cultural, and environmental benefits.

The Automaker Roadmap for Climate Scenario Analysis, commissioned by Ceres, establishes a framework for automakers to integrate climate scenario analysis into their strategic planning. It emphasizes the need for transparent and consistent methodologies to allow for comparisons with independent scientific bodies and other original equipment manufacturers. The guide highlights key factors for achieving warming limits of well below 2°C and an aspiration of 1.5°C, including the adoption of electric and fuel-efficient vehicles and the use models of shared and autonomous vehicles. It advocates for dynamic scenarios that challenge conventional wisdom and account for uncertainties to build resilient responses to climate change.

The document argues that failing to adopt a gender-responsive approach to private sector engagement in National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) could "reinforce existing gender and social inequalities and exacerbate vulnerabilities." It highlights that women-led and women-focused businesses are frequently "underserved and underrepresented" due to barriers such as limited access to formal education, financial services, and land ownership. To address this, the guide recommends five steps: collecting gender-disaggregated data, identifying champions among women-led businesses, using inclusive communication strategies, striving for gender balance in stakeholder meetings, and collaborating with other actors to overcome systemic gender-related barriers in the private sector.

The guide is designed for investors, particularly those new to deforestation risk, to help them identify drivers of risk based on industries, geographies, and sourcing patterns. It outlines expectations for corporate commitments, provides example engagement questions, and suggests concrete steps for investors to address deforestation risk.

The document serves as a supplement to the UNFCCC technical guidelines, outlining how to integrate private companies and financiers into the four main elements of the NAP process. It argues that private sector involvement is critical for financing, implementation, and the overall sustainability of climate adaptation efforts. The guide details a step-by-step approach: analyzing the national context, establishing communication, creating enabling environments (addressing information, finance, and capacity gaps), and integrating private sector data into monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems. It emphasizes the importance of including MSMEs and women-led businesses to ensure gender-responsive and inclusive adaptation outcomes.

WWF International provides a framework for corporate forest and climate goal-setting, advocating for a mitigation hierarchy that prioritizes avoiding and reducing footprints before pursuing compensation. The guide argues that protecting existing forests is significantly more effective for climate mitigation than tree planting, noting that preventing the loss of one hectare of mature forest avoids approximately 100 tons of carbon, whereas tropical reforestation sequesters only about 3 tons per hectare annually. It further recommends that companies align carbon credit purchases with specific quality criteria and national commitments (NDCs) and pursue transformational change through improved land tenure and multi-stakeholder initiatives.

The document argues that storytelling can bridge the gap between research and practice by making evidence emotionally resonant and memorable for decision-makers. It outlines the cognitive benefits of narratives, provides frameworks for crafting scientific stories—such as the 'story arc' and specific plot types—and offers a curated list of tools and resources to help researchers translate data into compelling narratives without compromising scientific accuracy.

The document argues that current NDCs insufficiently address the transport sector, which accounts for approximately one-quarter of energy-related CO2 emissions. It advocates for a comprehensive approach based on the "Avoid-Shift-Improve" framework: avoiding unnecessary travel through land-use planning, shifting to low-carbon modes like public transit and cycling, and improving vehicle technology via electrification and fuel efficiency. The authors identify three primary opportunities for NDC enhancement: accelerating electrification and fuel economy, amplifying avoid-and-shift measures, and addressing freight emissions through clean fuels and information technology.

WWF provides guidance for corporations on the voluntary purchase of carbon credits, emphasizing that such purchases must be supplementary to a transparent, science-based strategy to reduce Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. The document cautions against using terms like "carbon neutral," "net zero," and "offsetting" due to potential misleading interpretations and the evolving regulatory context of the Paris Agreement. It establishes seven quality criteria for "high-quality" credits—real, measurable, additional, permanent, avoiding leakage, monitored/verified, and complying with safeguards—and advises against credits from nuclear, fossil fuel, or certain biomass projects. Additionally, it introduces the concept of "insetting" as a way to address emissions within a company's value chain, though it notes that standards for insetting are still evolving.

The document argues that while NDCs (short-to-medium term commitments) and LTSs (mid-century visions) serve different legal and functional roles, they should be developed synergistically. Aligning them prevents the 'lock-in' of carbon-intensive infrastructure and reduces administrative costs by sharing data, modeling, and stakeholder consultations. The authors suggest that ideally, an LTS should inform the NDC, though they provide options for countries developing both in parallel or those updating NDCs without a formal LTS.

The document advises Energy Community Contracting Parties on integrating various climate and energy planning efforts, such as National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs), NDCs, and sectoral strategies, to reduce resource burdens and ensure policy alignment.

The guide argues that formalized ESG integration has shifted from an exception to an expectation in the private equity sector, driven by stakeholder demands and the impact of ESG factors on portfolio company value. It aims to help General Partners create tailored responsible investment policies to improve ESG management practices and encourage sustainable capital deployment.

The document argues that private sector engagement is essential for successful National Adaptation Planning (NAP) because businesses and investors drive economic growth and provide the necessary financing, products, and services for climate resilience. It identifies four key enabling factors—information sharing, financing, institutional arrangements, and capacity building—that governments must address to overcome barriers to engagement. The guide outlines specific entry points for the private sector across the three phases of the NAP process: planning (consensus building and priority setting), implementation (climate-proofing operations and public-private partnerships), and monitoring and evaluation (designing metrics and reporting outcomes).

The guidance note outlines the processes for evaluating the climate impact of water infrastructure bonds. It details a Mitigation Assessment to quantify greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions against baselines and an Adaptation & Resilience Assessment based on a binary scorecard. The latter evaluates an issuer's Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plan across four key areas: water allocation, governance, diagnostic technical assessments (including hydrologic modeling), and the robustness of adaptation strategies. The document emphasizes the use of science-based methodologies, such as the WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol and IPCC climate projections, and provides extensive examples from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to illustrate compliance.

The roadmap urges brands to drive a transition to closed-loop viscose and modal manufacturing by 2023-25 to mitigate air and water pollution. It outlines a framework for responsible sourcing, including supply chain mapping, third-party monitoring, and the adoption of EU Best Available Technique (BAT) standards for chemical recovery and emission limits. The document emphasizes the need for brands to set hard deadlines for suppliers, ensure worker safety, and remediate historical environmental damage, particularly in high-volume production areas like China.

The document outlines a strategic approach to communications for National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes, emphasizing the need to tailor messages and channels to priority audiences across the planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation stages. It suggests using tools like the Influence-Interest grid for stakeholder mapping and recommends the use of statistics, human interest stories, and memorable phrases to support key messages. The brief also highlights the importance of selecting appropriate communication channels based on audience media habits and establishing SMART metrics to measure the impact of these activities.

The document outlines a strategic approach to communications for National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes, focusing on four key pillars: prioritizing audiences, developing tailored key messages, identifying appropriate communication channels, and establishing metrics to measure impact. It argues that clear communication is essential for engaging government decision-makers, civil society, and the private sector to ensure adaptation priorities reflect stakeholder views and to support the implementation and monitoring of climate actions.