Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy

🌿 New OECD report: Scaling Up Private Action for Nature: Opportunities for Development Co-operation and Finance highlights the critical role of private sector engagement in addressing biodiversity loss and supporting sustainable...

A Climate Risk Assessment (CRA) is an ex ante assessment of a project resulting in recommendations concerning measures to reduce a variety of climate-related risks and optimise opportunities for ensuring that a project contributes...

A Country Environmental Profile (CEP) provides an analysis of the country environment and climate change context covering: key environmental and climate related challenges and opportunities; the way these are addressed in national...

An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is an analytical process that systematically examines the possible environmental consequences of the implementation of a project. An EIA is carried out for new projects that are likely to...

A Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a process for evaluating the environmental implications of a proposed policy, plan or programme. The model Terms of Reference (ToR) provided here are intended for SEAs undertaken in...

In this paper, Hanne Knaepen examines the coherence of European agri-food policies - both domestic and international - with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, particularly the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C and...

A presentation about the development of a sustainable cocoa sector in the Gola landscape, Sierra Leone. Beginning in 2015 with RSPB support, the sector now involves over 2 500 farmers grouped into 4 cooperatives. The farmers use...

A presentation about the development of the beekeeping sector around the Pendjari and W-Benin national parks in Benin, which has become an integrated green economy model in support of conservation. The value chain has been...

Nearly a decade after the Paris Agreement, traditional multilateralism is struggling to deliver climate action at the scale and urgency required to meet the escalating global emergency. In a context of geopolitical fragmentation...

Guyana’s wood furniture sector shows solid craftsmanship, strong domestic demand, and growing interest from institutional and regional buyers. However, low mechanisation, inconsistent material supply, limited training, and weak...