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This document is a report on the 26th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP-26) of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), held in Antigua, Guatemala, on June 20-21, 2018. It details the proceedings, administrative and financial discussions, and the 45 decisions adopted during the session, including the approval of the 2018-2019 operating budget and the initiation of a new Strategic Plan.

The IAI Directorate reports the successful July 2018 merger of the Science-Policy Liaison Directorate (Buenos Aires) with the Integrated Operations and Finance Directorate, as mandated by Decision XXVI/19. The report notes that the establishment of a Science Development Office in Brazil was deemed unnecessary and that the transition occurred without service interruptions.

This report from the Executive Director of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) informs the Conference of the Parties (CoP) about the implementation of Decision XXVI/19 regarding the merger of various administrative and scientific directorates.

This briefing describes SEI-PCS, a modeling approach developed by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) to provide fine-scale subnational data on the origins of traded commodities and their associated socio-environmental impacts. The tool is designed to overcome the limitations of traditional footprinting methods, which typically rely on country-level macroeconomic figures, by recreating supply chains to link consumption to specific production sites.

This fact sheet details a SEK 6 billion (USD 604 million) green bond issued by Stora Enso on February 20, 2019, marking the first entry of a Finnish forest product company into the green bond market.

This briefing tracks the integration of human rights into UN climate governance from 2010 to 2019. It highlights the progression from the Cancun Agreements to the Paris Agreement, where human rights, health, and the rights of indigenous peoples and vulnerable groups were explicitly recognized. The document details how COP decisions have mandated human rights considerations in capacity building, gender action, and loss and damage. It also reports that by December 2017, 76 Parties had referenced human rights in national reports and 24 countries had included them in their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions.

This IISD report presents the results of a 2018 online survey of 72 respondents from 54 developing countries regarding their investment treaty negotiation processes. It examines trends in treaty renegotiation, the impact of investment disputes, the use of model treaties, ratification procedures, and the specific government agencies involved in leading and supporting these negotiations.

This briefing describes the first application of the Gridded Meteorological Ensemble Tool (GMET) outside the United States, used by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in Bolivia to support a national water balance study. The project focused on creating continuous climate datasets from sparse station data and transferring the technical capacity to local Bolivian experts.

This report by the World Resources Institute argues that securing community land rights is a cost-effective strategy for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and mitigating climate change. It highlights the gap between the amount of land inhabited by indigenous and rural communities and the amount legally recognized by national governments, warning that this insecurity leads to deforestation and poverty. The document advocates for legal reforms, simplified formalization procedures, and a more equitable playing field between communities and corporate interests to protect global carbon sinks and biodiversity.

This report documents a workshop held in August 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa, hosted by the SADC Secretariat and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). The meeting focused on defining and implementing 'facilitating investment for sustainable development' for SADC member states, distinguishing this approach from traditional investment facilitation and trade facilitation.

This guide, produced by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and partners, distils the 2019 IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land specifically for decision-makers in Latin America. It examines the reciprocal relationship between land and climate, the risks of desertification and land degradation to food security and livelihoods, and the potential for sustainable land management and integrated governance to mitigate these threats.

This guide, produced by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and partners, translates the findings of the 2019 IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land specifically for policymakers in Latin America. It examines the reciprocal relationship between land and climate, the risks of desertification and land degradation in the region, and the socio-economic barriers—particularly gender inequality—that hinder sustainable land management. The document advocates for integrated governance and coordinated action across food systems to achieve climate mitigation and adaptation while ensuring food security.

The H1 2019 green bond market report by the Climate Bonds Initiative highlights HSBC as the leading global and emerging market underwriter and Euronext Amsterdam as the top listing venue. It notes that sovereign green bonds often outperform vanilla equivalents in book cover and spread compression, and identifies Agency green MBS and Solar/PACE ABS as primary drivers of green ABS issuance.

This briefing document provides context for the 2019 Green Economy Coalition (GEC) Global Meeting in Cape Town. It reviews the state of the global green transition in 2018, outlines the GEC's ten-year history and mission to champion inclusion, equity, and environmental limits, and defines the meeting's focus on ensuring 'everyone gets a stake' in the transition through participation, livelihoods, and ownership rights.

This report analyzes the global coffee market, focusing on the growth and impact of voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs). It examines production and consumption trends, the role of Low Human Development Countries (LHDCs), and the risks posed by price volatility and climate change to the sector's sustainability goals.

This 2019 report by Sustainable Energy for All provides a status update on global cooling access, quantifying the populations at risk and introducing a needs-based assessment tool to guide policymakers and financiers toward sustainable cooling solutions consistent with the Paris Agreement and the Kigali Amendment.

The Energy Progress Report 2019, a joint publication by five custodian agencies, tracks global progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7). While the world is making progress in electricity access, renewable energy adoption, and energy efficiency, the report concludes that current ambition levels are insufficient to meet 2030 targets. Significant gaps remain in clean cooking access and electricity availability, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This executive summary describes the PRINCE project, a three-year research initiative led by Statistics Sweden and commissioned by Naturvårdsverket and the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. The project developed a hybrid modeling approach combining Swedish environmental-economic data with the EXIOBASE multiregional input-output (MRIO) model to estimate the environmental pressures associated with Swedish consumption both domestically and abroad. This framework was specifically designed to monitor Sweden's 'Generational Goal,' which aims to solve domestic environmental problems without increasing impacts outside Sweden's borders.

A briefing by the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) stating that current Paris Agreement commitments and real-world policies are insufficient to meet the 1.5°C warming limit, with projected warming levels of 3.0°C and 3.3°C respectively.

This report by the Center for International Environmental Law summarizes advocacy for human rights during the COP-24 climate conference in Katowice. It details the efforts to integrate human rights into the Paris Agreement Implementation Guidelines, reports on civil rights infringements by Polish authorities against conference attendees, and reviews the inclusion of human rights in other policy outcomes such as the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform and the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss & Damage.