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Progressing National SDGs Implementation
A review of the 44 voluntary national reviews submitted to the UN in 2022 amid uneven pandemic recoveries, socio-economic crises and climate impacts.
Improving Visibility in Cotton Supply Chains to Achieve Transparency
This brief maps the supply chains of actors in the cotton sector in Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka for a Sweden-based fashion retailer.
Opportunity NOCs
This UCSB and IISD report examines how investors are financially exposed to NOC risks, but this exposure opens avenues for investor influence on NOCs and creates a strong incentive for investors to use such influence. If the world is to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, NOCs must begin decarbonizing their activities.
The State of Global Environmental Governance 2022
Our reporting team explores global environmental diplomacy wins and misses as in-person talks resumed in full force in 2022.
Achieving Sustainable Food Systems in a Global Crisis: Summary Report
This report summarizes the evidence-based and costed country roadmaps for effective public interventions to transform agriculture and food systems in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria in a way that ends hunger, makes diets healthier and more affordable, improves the productivity and incomes of small-scale producers and their households, and mitigates and adapts to climate change.
Proposals for the Canadian Just Transition Act
This report makes specific recommendations for Canada's forthcoming just transition legislation, drawing on best practices from jurisdictions around the world.
Good Regulatory Practice Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements
This paper examines how good regulatory practice provisions are evolving in select key regional trade agreements and provides some policy insights of value for developing countries.
Policy Action Framework: Improving product sustainability information in e-commerce
How can policy-makers take action to improve product sustainability information for consumers using e-commerce platforms?
Achieving Sustainable Food Systems in a Global Crisis: Ethiopia
This report presents an evidence based and costed country roadmap for effective public interventions to transform agriculture and food systems in Ethiopia in a way that ends hunger, makes diets healthier and more affordable, improves the productivity and incomes of small-scale producers and their households, and mitigates and adapts to climate change.
Global Market Report: Cotton prices and sustainability
Exploring production and consumption trends in the cotton sector and how voluntary sustainability standards can improve social and environmental results.