Reports and Documents

The purpose of the code should be to provide minimum requirements for energy-efficient design and construction of buildings and their systems. The Building EE code should set out the minimum energy efficiency standard for buildings and the administrative requirements.

This 2014 edition of State of Green Business report published by GreenBiz Group in partnership with Trucost plc provides an analysis of the global progress of large, publicly traded companies in addressing a myriad of environmental challenges and reveals little meaningful progress across most metrics, including greenhouse gas emissions, water use, waste disposal and other pollutant impacts.

This paper investigates how a development intervention which targets extremely poor households with investment capital influences relationships between those households and the landowning elite.

The 2014 edition of World Energy Issues Monitor shows that high energy price volatility has become the number one critical uncertainty on the energy agenda, replacing the climate framework as the most extreme issue, for leaders and experts globally. Read the full text.

This report by UN-Habitat has been developed for city planners to better understand, assess and take action on climate change at the local level. The guide's strategic, values based planning framework: - promotes a participatory planning process that integrates local participation and good decision-making - provides practical tools for addressing climate change through different urban planning processes - supports the "mainstreaming" of climate change actions into other local government policy instruments.

This guide attempts to summarize the strongest social and environmental standards related to dam building. It discusses options for civil society to use standards in order to advocate for stronger practices to be implemented by government ministries, dam financiers, and dam builders.

This guide attempts to summarize the strongest social and environmental standards related to dam building. It discusses options for civil society to use standards in order to advocate for stronger practices to be implemented by government ministries, dam financiers, and dam builders.

This paper employs a political economy framework to analyze the politics of tariff restructuring—both the power purchase agreement (PPA) and the retail tariff. It identifies the interests of actors and institutions, and the strategies they used to navigate and affect an outcome.

Industries in 2014 is a special report from the Economist Intelligence Unit. Last year Economist Intelligence Unit published Industries in 2013 and made a number of predictions about how 2013 would unfold in six key industries – Automotive, Consumer Goods and Retail, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare and Telecommunications.

Agricultural activities in the developing world directly contribute about 4.23 GtCO2eq/y to the current anthropogenic forcing of the global climate, and indirectly a further approximately 3.93GtCO2eq/y through forest clearing and degradation. Together they constitute a quarter of the total global climate forcing from all sources.