Reports and Documents

Climate change creates risks and opportunities for the private sector in emerging markets, and may impact the performance of financial institutions and the companies they invest in.

Scaling-up investment in energy efficiency is essential to achieving a sustainable energy future. Despite energy efficiency

This report highlights how better legislation can help to significantly reduce the human suffering caused by the growing number of natural disasters.

Karnataka one of the Southern states of India has 3.83 million ha or recorded forest area which is around 20 percent of its geographical area. Karnataka is endowed with most significant forests in the country ranging from majestic evergreen forests of the Western Ghats to the scrub jungles of the plains.

When the water policy of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) was approved in 2001, water was widely viewed as one of the greatest global challenges. The challenge was accentuated by, among others, population growth, urbanization, and changes in climatic patterns.

The global observance of World Habitat Day this year will be held at the Shanghai World Expo 2010. Hosted by China

This guide aims to support countries in planning and conducting forest policy development processes. Based on a review of practical experiences, it outlines the rationale and purpose of a national forest policy and the different elements of the forest policy development process.

India

Over recent decades, biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction have both become international societal and political goals. There is recognition of the links between these two goals both within the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Millennium Development Goals.

In accordance with the commitments pledged at Nairobi in 2005 (Nairobi Frame Work in 2006) and Copenhagen in 2009 to enhance distribution of CDM projects and capacity development at the regional and sub-regional levels, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), with co-funding from the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Cl