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This report assesses progress toward Goal 8 of the New York Declaration on Forests, which focuses on providing support for strategies to reduce forest emissions. The assessment highlights a significant imbalance between 'green' finance aligned with forest goals and 'grey' finance that potentially drives deforestation, noting that international public and private investments in sustainable forestry remain insufficient compared to the scale of the challenge.

This report summarizes progress toward Goal 9 of the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF), which focuses on rewarding countries and jurisdictions that reduce forest emissions through public policies, results-based payments, and private-sector commodity sourcing.

The 2018 Progress Assessment Goal 4 Update evaluates efforts to support alternatives to deforestation driven by basic human needs, such as subsistence farming and woodfuel use. While the distribution of clean cookstoves has increased significantly, financial support for woodfuel interventions has declined. The report highlights various regional case studies in the Amazon, West Africa, and Southeast Asia that employ sustainable landscape approaches and community-based management to alleviate poverty and protect forests.

The 2018 Progress Assessment Goal 5 Update evaluates global efforts to restore degraded landscapes and forestlands under the Bonn Challenge and the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of the Paris Agreement. It reports that Bonn Challenge pledges have reached 168.9 million hectares, surpassing the initial 2020 milestone of 150 million hectares, although measuring actual implementation remains a significant challenge.

This report documents an expert meeting held in Ottawa on June 13, 2018, hosted by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). The meeting brought together Canadian government officials, academics, and civil society representatives to discuss the reform of international investment law and the development of a progressive agenda for Canada, specifically regarding the revision of its Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) model.

The 2018 Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy (RISE) report provides a global inventory of policies and regulations supporting Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7), focusing on electricity access, clean cooking, energy efficiency, and renewable energy across 133 economies from 2010 to 2017.

The 2018 Energy Progress Report, a joint publication by five custodian agencies, evaluates global progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7). It concludes that the world is not on track to achieve universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy by 2030, as current progress falls short across all four SDG7 targets: electricity access, clean cooking, energy efficiency, and the share of renewable energy.

A case study by the World Resources Institute (WRI) detailing the development and enactment of a 2017 Brazilian law that establishes 'compact, connected and coordinated' (3C) standards for the Minha Casa, Minha Vida (MCMV) social housing program to combat urban sprawl and improve service access.

The Carbon-Free City Handbook: Biological Resources is a guide by RMI that outlines three primary actions for cities to manage biological resources to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: organic waste diversion, urban forestry, and the promotion of plant-based diets.

A notification from the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) announcing that the Belmont Forum Executive Council has accepted an Expression of Interest for the IAI Directorate to host the Belmont Forum Secretariat in Montevideo, Uruguay.

A notification from the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) announcing that its Executive Directorate in Montevideo, Uruguay, will host the Secretariat of the Belmont Forum.

The report by NewClimate Institute, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, and IIASA analyzes greenhouse gas emission projections for 25 major emitting countries and regions up to 2030. It assesses whether current policies are sufficient to meet their intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) and nationally determined contributions (NDCs).

This policy brief summarizes a study by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and PUC-Rio on the economic impacts of hydropower plants (HPP) in Brazil. Analyzing 82 municipalities between 2002 and 2011, the research finds that while dam construction often provides short-term boosts to employment and revenue, these effects typically dissipate after five or six years and rarely transform the underlying structure of local economies.

This technical briefing by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) provides a detailed analysis and critique of Minister Luiz Fux's vote regarding several Direct Actions of Unconstitutionality (ADIs) challenging the Brazilian Forest Code (Law No. 12.651/2012). The document highlights legal inconsistencies in the Minister's approach to the July 22, 2008, temporal milestone and the potential impacts of declaring the Environmental Regularization Program (PRA) unconstitutional.

This executive summary describes a study by the NAPC/CPI and BNDES evaluating the local economic impacts of hydroelectric power plants (UHEs) in Brazil. Analyzing 82 municipalities across 13 states where construction began between 2002 and 2011, the study finds that positive economic effects are generally short-term and vary significantly by location, suggesting that UHEs do not fundamentally transform local economies.

This research paper examines the risk of "hot air" in international carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, where countries with unambitious NDC targets could transfer credits without actual emission reductions. The authors analyze relative and absolute limits on transfers, the importance of unit quality, and the risks of carry-over provisions, recommending a combination of historical-based relative limits and international oversight to safeguard environmental integrity.

A notification from the Executive Director of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) informing the Science-Policy Advisory Committee (SPAC), the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), and CoP members of the IAI's planned participation in five international meetings between October and December 2017.

A briefing from the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) notifying member countries and advisory committees of the Executive Directorate's planned participation in five international events between October and December 2017 to strengthen the science-policy interface and visibility.

This working paper by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) provides lessons on leveraging private sector finance for climate compatible development based on projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It emphasizes the need for country-specific approaches, strong public sector leadership, and the use of innovative financial instruments to bridge the gap between commercial interests and climate goals.

This executive summary provides a comparative legal analysis of forest protection and land use legislation across seven major agricultural exporting countries: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, and the United States. The study specifically examines riparian buffer zones and biodiversity conservation policies on private lands to contextualize the stringency of the Brazilian Forest Code (Law No. 12.651/2012).