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This report by the Climate Policy Initiative provides a baseline analysis of smallholders in Brazil's Caatinga and Cerrado biomes to inform a 'rural just transition.' It highlights significant disparities in productivity, resource access, and socioeconomic vulnerability between the two regions, arguing that a one-size-fits-all agricultural policy is insufficient. The analysis emphasizes that smallholders in the Caatinga are particularly prone to poverty and subsistence farming, while those in the Cerrado are more integrated into commercial markets, though both face barriers to adopting sustainable, low-carbon production methods.

The Financing Steel Decarbonization (FSD) instrument is a proposed mechanism designed to accelerate the adoption of low-carbon technologies (LCTs) in the steel sector, specifically targeting India. It combines a blended debt fund (SDF) to provide patient capital with a service company (SDI) that offers technical assistance and implementation support to de-risk projects.

This briefing paper by the Forest Declaration Assessment examines how the global transition to low-carbon technologies increases the demand for minerals, thereby posing a significant threat to forest ecosystems, particularly Intact Forest Landscapes (IFLs) in the Amazon and Congo Basin.

This research paper examines the process of 'policy transfer' for renewable energy adoption using case studies from Peru, Thailand, and Uganda, concluding that the process is a complex, iterative interaction between national and international actors rather than a simple adoption of policies from one country to another.

This report summarizes an expert workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 10-11, 2014, organized by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). The workshop, part of the New Climate Economy project, examined the synergies and trade-offs between expanding modern energy access and mitigating climate change, focusing primarily on the African context.

This policy brief, produced by the Stockholm Environment Institute in partnership with the business leaders' initiative 3C, examines the risk of metal scarcity for low-carbon technologies. Using a custom scenario calculator, the authors analyze the future supply and demand for cobalt, lithium, neodymium, indium, and tellurium, concluding that cumulative supply deficits for several of these metals could hinder the global transition to a low-carbon economy.

This executive summary outlines the implications for Africa of the United Nations Secretary’s High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Finance (AGF) report, which proposes methods to raise US$100 billion annually by 2020 for climate investment in developing countries.

This briefing paper discusses the findings of the 2020 progress assessment of the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) Goal 3, specifically focusing on the risks that mining and infrastructure pose to forests and the threats emerging from the global transition to low-carbon technologies.

This research paper by the World Resources Institute outlines six design considerations for the next generation of U.S. federal tax credits to accelerate the deployment of low-carbon technologies across the power, transportation, industrial, and buildings sectors to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

This report, a collaboration between the World Resources Institute and the Goldman Sachs Center for Environmental Markets, analyzes the policy and market structures necessary to deploy low-carbon technologies to mitigate climate change. It utilizes a "wedges" framework to examine the interaction between technology, investment, and policy to stabilize global emissions.