In this policy insight, the authors explain how rising to the climate and poverty challenges in tandem can generate great gains for people and the environment across continents and create new paths for sustainable development and poverty reduction – while delayed action on climate change will entrench poverty around the world. Read more
This paper discusses major action areas for China's 14th Five-Year Plan after COVID-19, especially focusing on three aspects: the energy transition, a new type of sustainable urban development, and investment priorities. Read more
This report presents the results of the first phase of the India Just Transition Finance Roadmap project, which involved scoping the landscape and highlighting priorities for further work to be presented ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26). Read more
Christian Siderius and Declan Conway highlight some of the barriers and opportunities to achieving more sustainable water use in the ‘breadbasket’ of India, at a time of unrest among many farmers faced with new laws they perceive threaten their livelihoods. Read more
Humans have been adapting to their environments throughout history by developing practices, cultures and livelihoods suited to local conditions –... Read more
The analysis suggests that the Sustainable Development Goals and their targets mostly create conditions that aid the achievement of each other within development corridors but that there are trade-offs between some goals and other development gains. The authors signal priority areas for investment, policy reorientation and strengthened safeguards, to maximise positive SDG interactions and minimise negative ones. Read more
The Paris Agreement was a landmark document that was produced at the 21st session of the Conference of Parties (COP21) to... Read more
Nicholas Stern comments on the recovery from COVID-19, which, he says, must be designed to be sustainable if it is to take us to the drive to the transformational growth that can give us a much better path of development and growth and avoid the dangers of the old system. Read more
COVID-19 has underlined the fragility and dangers of the old growth path, according to Lord Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute. Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the fragility and dangers of the old growth path. There can be no going back to the old normal, argue Amar Bhattacharya and Nicholas Stern. Read more
