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In this integrated cost-benefit analysis, the Nature-Based Infrastructure (NBI) Global Resource Centre demonstrates the potential of ecosystem-based adaptation to stabilize hydrology and ensure a reliable water and energy supply in …

page: Participating experts Report details Topic Climate Change Adaptation Infrastructure Nature Project … of nature-based infrastructure (NBI) to improve climate-related flooding and landslides in Kasese, Uganda …

The Scaling Urban Nature-based Solutions for Climate Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SUNCASA) project aims to enhance climate resilience, gender equality and social inclusion, and biodiversity protection …

will be living in cities. However, incipient climate governance systems, rapid urbanization, and deforestation … communities' capacity to adapt to climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts temperatures … Affairs Canada through the Partnering for the Climate Program, SUNCASA will work with local partners … improve urban communities' capacity to adapt to climate change. By implementing gender-responsive NbS for … SUNCASA project directly responds to risks like climate change-induced flooding, landslides, extreme heat …

The federal government has set a GHG emissions reduction target of at least 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, equivalent to 38.5% below 2022 levels. This report examines proposed policies …

this report I present a critical review of the climate plan and an economic analysis of its likely effects … Canadians to make an informed decision about which climate policies deserve support. This report aims to … economics has long argued that the most efficient climate policy is a carbon tax on its own, the PR boasts … that the government has imple- mented over 140 climate policies, offering that number as evidence of the … of climate change, chiefly associated with extreme weather events (e.g., “Imperative for climate action …

IISD provides insights on aspects of World Trade Organization (WTO) members' plastics that have created friction with trading partners and suggests recommendations for the adoption of such policies in the …

working to accelerate solutions for a stable climate, sustainable resource management, and fair economies …

This report explores Indonesia's agrifood systems transformation, offering insights from innovative economic models to guide policy-makers in developing effective, sustainable policies.

agricultural practices, and deforestation and associated climate impacts. The Indonesian government and the UN Food … Participating experts Report details Topic Climate Change Adaptation Climate Change Mitigation Food and Agriculture … Project Food Systems Transformation Focus area Climate Resources Publisher FAO Copyright FAO, 2024 You …

This policy brief explores the implications of the 15% global minimum tax on special economic zones, offering comprehensive guidance for governments to reform tax incentives and ensure these zones attract …

working to accelerate solutions for a stable climate, sustainable resource management, and fair economies … UNCTAD, “in today’s global business and investment climate, the strategic focus, the regulatory and governance … “incentives do not compensate for a poor investment climate,” government investment in financial and human …

A group of 90 World Trade Organization (WTO) members are negotiating a new global agreement on e-commerce rules at the WTO. After close to 7 years of discussions, they are …

working to accelerate solutions for a stable climate, sustainable resource management, and fair economies …

Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound explores the ways that sonic practices (speaking, listening, recording, etc.) serve as forms of aesthetic and political dissent throughout the literary, artistic, and academic …

other disused smartphones as e-waste in a warm climate under the sun? Who is the listener and who is the …

Western modernity is characterized by instrumental relations between humans and nature, as well as between humans themselves, that have caused irreversible environmental and social exploitation and degradation. Many policy documents, …

of our life? The Anthropocene and human-made climate change are the starkest contemporary manifestation … arguments was a series of lectures on reversibility, climate change, and the Anthropocene at Sciences Po Lyon …

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

rapidly, fuelled (pun intended) in part by fears of climate change and the reality of succes- sive summers … from before the Little Ice Age to contemporary climate change.4 Pyne compellingly demon- strates how settler …