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This SEI briefing discusses the necessity of integrated planning to align the Paris Agreement's climate goals with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It evaluates existing software tools for this purpose and highlights the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) as a unique open-access, quantitative, and prospective tool capable of analyzing both Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

This policy brief discusses the barriers cities face in accessing climate finance and proposes financial aggregation as a strategy to scale up investment for urban climate mitigation and adaptation.

This report by Ember analyzes the scale of coal mine methane (CMM) emissions in Australia, arguing that official figures are significantly underreported and that these emissions pose a major threat to Australia's 2030 climate targets. The document highlights the disparity between government estimates and satellite data, particularly in the Bowen Basin, and examines the impact of proposed new coal mines in Queensland and New South Wales. It recommends a transition to direct measurement, the implementation of methane abatement technologies like VAM oxidation, and the phasing out of coal, starting with the highest-emitting mines.

This policy brief outlines the climate vulnerabilities of Nepal, particularly in its mountainous and urbanizing areas, and identifies systemic barriers to local climate action. It highlights a lack of technical capacity, financial constraints, and jurisdictional confusion following Nepal's shift to a federal structure. The authors recommend establishing 'resilience cells' to coordinate government efforts, integrating climate indicators into local budgeting, and adopting integrated planning tools to combine mitigation, adaptation, and disaster risk reduction.

This report by the Climate Policy Initiative explores financial aggregation as a strategy to overcome barriers to urban climate finance. It defines financial aggregation as the use of instruments or enterprises to combine multiple investments, participants, projects, or sectors to scale up financing for urban climate mitigation and adaptation. The document details supply-side and demand-side aggregation models, provides case studies from various global regions, and outlines the necessary enabling environments and stakeholder recommendations to implement these strategies.

This report evaluates the economic value of ecosystem benefits in the Seal River Watershed of Northern Manitoba, Canada, highlighting its role in biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation through Indigenous-led stewardship.

A statement by the Climate Policy Initiative on International Women's Day highlighting the intersection of gender inequality and the climate crisis, emphasizing that women are both disproportionately affected by climate change and essential leaders for sustainable solutions.

This factsheet by Natural Justice examines the Forest Conservation and Management (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which proposes to repeal section 34(2A) of the Forest Conservation and Management Act 2016. The proposed change would remove the requirement for the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) to recommend petitions for the variation of public forest boundaries before they are forwarded to the National Assembly.

This 2022 report by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) analyzes the activities of United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies (HRTBs) regarding climate change during 2020 and 2021. It details how these expert bodies use state review processes, general comments, and individual communications to define and monitor states' human rights obligations to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis.

This legal briefing examines the impact of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Komstroy decision on intra-EU investment disputes under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). It argues that the ruling, alongside the Achmea and PL Holdings decisions, effectively bars investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) between EU investors and Member States, creating significant legal and financial obstacles to the enforcement of arbitration awards. The document specifically analyzes how these rulings and EU State aid laws could impede claims by energy companies RWE and Uniper against the Netherlands regarding its coal phase-out policy.

This report examines the landscape of urban green finance in Hyderabad and Kolkata, India, mapping the flow of public and private funds toward climate change mitigation and adaptation across six key sectors, including clean energy, sustainable transportation, and waste and water management.

A report by NewClimate Institute, IIASA, and FTSE Russell analyzing climate mitigation efforts across 30 major emitting countries and regions, finding that current policy projections are insufficient to meet Paris Agreement goals.

The IDFC Green Finance Mapping Report 2021 analyzes the green finance commitments of the International Development Finance Club (IDFC) members for the year 2020. It highlights a milestone where cumulative green finance since 2015 surpassed $1 trillion, while noting a 6% decline in new 2020 commitments due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The report introduces a new dedicated tracking mechanism for biodiversity finance alongside traditional climate mitigation and adaptation flows.

This briefing describes the Inter-American Development Bank's (IDB) strategy to integrate nature-based solutions (NBS) into infrastructure investments across Latin America and the Caribbean to address investment gaps in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Paris Agreement contributions.

This executive summary of the 2021 NYDF Progress Assessment report evaluates government efforts to utilize forests for climate mitigation, focusing on the ambition of climate pledges, investment levels, and implementation strategies. While it notes that the Paris Agreement has confirmed the pivotal role of forests, the report finds that current national targets and financial investments are significantly insufficient to meet the global mitigation potential of forests.

This executive summary evaluates the progress of Goal 7 of the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF), which aimed to agree by 2015 to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation as part of global climate agreements. While the goal is considered achieved through the Paris Agreement, the report finds that national commitments and investments remain insufficient to halt global forest loss.

This October 2021 report evaluates progress toward Goal 7 of the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF), focusing on national climate action for forests. While it acknowledges the Paris Agreement's confirmation of the role of forests in the international climate agenda, it concludes that current efforts are insufficient to end deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. The document provides a comprehensive set of recommendations for governments to strengthen ambition, increase financing, and implement six specific strategies to protect and manage forests sustainably.

This October 2021 report evaluates progress toward Goal 7 of the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF), focusing on national climate actions for forests. While it acknowledges that the Paris Agreement confirmed the role of forests in the international climate agenda, the report concludes that current efforts are insufficient to end forest loss and associated greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. It provides a comprehensive set of recommendations for governments to improve forest climate mitigation through six key strategies: strengthening land-use governance, securing Indigenous peoples and local communities' rights, aligning financial incentives, promoting multi-stakeholder collaboration, ensuring robust monitoring, and expanding demand-side measures for forest-risk commodities.

The Food Securities Fund, developed by Clarmondial, provides working capital loans to agricultural aggregators in emerging and developing markets to support the transition to sustainable agriculture, with an initial focus on Sub Saharan Africa.

The ARM-Harith Cities & Climate Transition Fund (The ACT Fund) is a mid-market greenfield infrastructure fund designed to expand sustainable infrastructure in West Africa. It utilizes a blended-currency mechanism to reduce financing friction at early project stages and mobilize local institutional investment through structured exit solutions.