This report highlights lessons learned and examples of good practice from countries with experience in mplementing a wide range of measures to improve energy efficiency in urban transport systems.

The world experienced unprecedented high-impact climate extremes during the 2001-2010 decade, which was the warmest since the start of modern measurements in 1850 and continued an extended period of pronounced global warming.

The Global Tiger Recovery Program Implementation Plan: 2013–14 is based on the Priority Implementation Activities (PIAs) of the Tiger Range Countries, developed to address the Thimphu Affirmative Nine-Point Action Agenda on Tiger Conservation formulated at the Second Asian Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation in late 2012.

In 2011, the World Bank initiated the Partnership for Sustainable Cities, a group of leading urban actors with a mission to collaborate on city development around the world and foster city-led sustainable development. This synthesis paper, Building Sustainability in an Urbanizing World, is a product of the partnership’s early discussions.

The study on “Financing Sustainable Urban Transport – International Review of National Urban transport Policies and Programmes” authored by Rodrigo Diaz (Embarq) and Daniel Bongardt (GIZ) presents an analysis of a variety of financing and planning practices world-wide in order to help decision-makers identify suitable elements for their local co

Greenhouse gas emissions from aviation are rapidly increasing. The EU and Norway, Iceland and Switzerland argue there is no other way to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from aviation but through the inclusion of aviation in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS).

This paper identifies sixteen cases of large-scale actions in the agriculture and forestry sectors that have adaptation and /or mitigation outcomes, and distils lessons from the cases.

This report by Deloitte's Global Energy & Resources group identifies important current trends and opportunities in renewable energy, points out where significant barriers to progress lie, and suggests strategies for dealing with them.