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WASH-Flows is a Microsoft Excel-based tool developed under the Bolivia WATCH Program to bridge the gap between household-level WASH data and watershed-scale planning. It transforms qualitative household information into quantitative data to assess service vulnerability, estimate environmental contamination loads, and provide water demand and wastewater flow data for water resources management software. While developed for Bolivia and currently applied in the Tupiza, Pampa Huari, and Choqueyapu-La Paz watersheds, the tool is intended for use in low- and middle-income countries across rural and peri-urban settings.

The Agenda 2030 Compass is a tool developed by the Stockholm Environment Institute, Jernkontoret, the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, and Swedwise to help decision-makers evaluate how investments, policies, or products affect the SDGs. It consists of a Context Mapper, which identifies potential SDG interactions based on local factors like socio-economic conditions and energy mix, and a Strategy Analyser, a workshop-based process used to score direct impacts and identify indirect synergies and trade-offs. The tool was pilot-tested in four Swedish case studies involving electric scooters, smart energy housing, urban mobility, and regional innovation strategies.

The document outlines the drivers of global warming, specifically the emission of climate pollutants from fossil fuels, land use, and industrial activities. It introduces Project Drawdown's approach to climate action, which prioritizes the deployment of existing, scalable, and economically feasible physical practices and technologies over theoretical future developments. The text distinguishes between 'solutions' (physical practices), 'levers' (policies and investments), and 'key actors' (the people implementing them), while detailing the transparent, open-source methodology used by the Drawdown Explorer to categorize and evaluate these solutions by their mode of action and sector.

The document describes the Community-based Risk Screening Tool (CRiSTAL), a decision-support application used to integrate climate adaptation into local projects. It outlines the tool's objective to analyze how climate hazards affect livelihoods and project activities, its three-phase analytical approach, and the various training and consultancy services provided by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and its partners.

The Impact Benefits Calculator (IBC) is a tool integrated into LEAP that translates emissions scenarios into estimates of health and climate impacts. It utilizes parameterized results from the GEOS-Chem Adjoint model and standard concentration-response functions to calculate population-weighted PM2.5 concentrations and associated premature mortality. The tool is designed to be accessible to planners in the developing world, reducing complex modeling that previously required supercomputers to calculations that run in seconds. It currently supports 161 countries and analyzes pollutants including CO2, methane, black carbon, and nitrogen oxides.