Reports and Documents

This briefing paper summarises the state of the debate on progress in energy for sustainable development and outlines key challenges for policy in the future, particularly in relation to the three objectives of the United Nations Secretary General’s Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Initiative: ensuring universal access to modern energy servic

This toolkit offers a step-by-step guide for integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into the coastal and marine ecosystem management that will be quite useful for the field practitioners of coastal areas in the sub-region.

This study aims to enhance understanding of the dynamic relationship among biodiversity conservation and management, gender, and livelihoods in the greater Himalayan region.

India, China, Russian Federation and South Africa have almost 60% of the world's cases of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis reveals this 17th WHO report on tuberculosis that provides a comprehensive assessment of the TB epidemic & its prevention with data from 204 countries.

Study of refining capability requirements, corresponding capital investment requirements, and per-liter refining costs to transition to ultra-low sulfur gasoline and diesel fuel in India, Mexico, Brazil and China.

The IFAD has released a paper that provides a review of the role of livestock as a potential renewable energy source to improve energy access in rural areas. The paper focuses on opportunities to harness biogas from livestock wastes and residues, including tools and reviews on the best available information on biogas digesters.

This report – Avoiding Future Famines: Strengthening the Ecological Basis of Food Security through Sustainable Food Systems - is a unique collaboration of 12 leading scientists and experts involved in world food systems. The report addresses an important aspect of the food security discourse: the ecological foundation of food security.

This project briefing presents the findings and policy implications of a study conducted by Plan International about the perception and experience of climate extremes and disasters by girls and boys in South Asia, who must receive greater priority in measures to respond to disasters and in disaster risk reduction planning.

In this fifth edition of Cities of Opportunity, PwC and the Partnership for New York City again examine the current social and economic performance of the world’s leading cities. Also add a future dimension that probes the shape of city economies to come.

CBO – Action and Policy provides the summary of a global assessment of the links between urbanization, biodiversity, and ecosystem services.