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The Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF) was established in February 2005 as a UN Type II partnership following the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. It serves as a member-led platform for over 80 countries to advance sustainable development through the mining sector. The forum's central tool is the Mining Policy Framework (MPF), ratified in 2010 and updated in 2023, which provides a compendium of best practices across six pillars: laws, policies, and institutions; financial benefits; socio-economic benefits; post-mining transition; environmental management; and artisanal and small-scale mining. The IGF Secretariat has been hosted by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) since October 2015, with core funding provided by Canada and the Netherlands.

The Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals for Sustainable Development (IGF) was established in 2005 as a UN Type II partnership following the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. It serves as a member-led platform for over 80 countries to promote good mining governance. The IGF's central tool is the Mining Policy Framework (MPM), which provides best practices across six pillars: laws, policies and institutions; financial benefits; socio-economic benefits; transition to post-mining; environmental management; and artisanal and small-scale mining. Since 2015, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has managed the IGF Secretariat, with core funding from Canada and the Netherlands.

The IGF was established in 2005 as a UN Type II partnership to help resource-rich countries improve mining governance for sustainable development. It is guided by the Mining Policy Framework (MPF), which covers six pillars including environmental management and post-mining transition. Now comprising over 80 member nations, the IGF provides technical assistance and national assessments to align mining laws with sustainable development goals, with its secretariat hosted by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and funded primarily by Canada and the Netherlands.

The report examines the use of environmental attribute certificates (EACs) via a book and claim model to scale lower-carbon steel and concrete. It argues that this mechanism allows organizations to fund upstream decarbonization even when they cannot directly procure low-carbon materials. The authors identify critical infrastructure needs—including certification schemes, standards, registries, and reporting guidelines—and share lessons from a Microsoft pilot, noting that the market is currently in early stages with a lack of fit-for-purpose accounting methods.

The guide outlines a comprehensive legal framework for managing the environmental and social impacts of large-scale mining throughout its entire lifecycle. It identifies 20 essential components for a robust legal system, ranging from sustainable development commitments and public participation to financial guarantees for mine closure. The document provides a phased approach for government action—covering exploration, planning, construction, operation, and closure—and offers practical tools, such as gap analyses and checklists, to help governments improve their regulatory governance and avoid the social and environmental legacies of abandoned mines.

Togo has adopted a government-wide, multisectoral approach to climate change adaptation, treating it as a development issue central to its Vision 2030 goals. The country is systematically mainstreaming adaptation into national planning and the domestic budget, led by the Ministry of Planning and the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Key climate threats identified include heatwaves, droughts, floods, rainfall variability, and sea level rise, affecting priority sectors such as agriculture, coastal zones, health, human settlements, and water.

The document defines vertical integration in the context of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) as the creation of strategic links between national and subnational levels of climate adaptation. It argues that involving subnational actors—including local authorities, organizations, and communities—is essential for integrating climate adaptation into policies and supporting vulnerable groups. The process relies on three key enabling factors: institutional agreements, information exchange, and capacity development. Furthermore, the text highlights that existing national decentralization efforts provide a critical foundation for this integration, as they establish the necessary mechanisms for transferring resources and decision-making power to the lowest feasible administrative level.

The document defines vertical integration in the context of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) as a continuous effort to ensure local realities are reflected in national plans and that national plans enable subnational adaptation. It outlines a flexible, iterative approach centered on three enabling factors: institutional arrangements, information sharing, and capacity building. The guide provides specific strategies for integrating subnational perspectives into planning, coordinating implementation and resource allocation, and establishing linked M&E systems to ensure a bidirectional flow of learning between national and local actors.

The EPTSD Framework aims to minimize conflicts between trade, environment, and development policies through five principles: efficiency, equity, good governance, stakeholder participation and responsibility, and international cooperation. The document argues that the adversarial nature of WTO binding dispute settlement is often a 'last resort' that fails to address underlying environmental issues, as seen in the Shrimp-Turtle case. It proposes a four-stage dispute prevention process: informal international cooperation, bilateral/multilateral consultation, non-binding third-party assisted processes (such as mediation under Article 5 of the DSU), and finally, binding settlement. Applying this to the Shrimp-Turtle dispute, the author suggests that technical assistance and multi-stakeholder dialogue could have avoided the trade ban. For the GMO Labelling conflict between the US and EU, the document emphasizes the need for international policy coherence across the WTO, the Biosafety Protocol, and the Codex Alimentarius Commission, while supporting the EU's labelling scheme as a tool for consumer transparency and risk internalisation.

The document outlines the Environmental and Social Management Framework (MGAS) for a project aimed at the long-term financial sustainability of Peru's National System of Protected Natural Areas (SINANPE) in the Amazon biome. It identifies potential environmental and social risks associated with infrastructure investments and resource management across six pre-selected protected areas. The framework integrates WWF's Integrated Safeguard Policies and Procedures (PPIS), specifically addressing natural habitats, involuntary resettlement, and indigenous peoples. It establishes a governance structure involving PROFONANPE and SERNANP, a grievance mechanism, and requirements for Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIA) for specific investments.