This paper highlights the role of trade in contributing to massively scaling up and deploying renewable energy, a crucial step in supporting a shift away from fossil fuel so as to ensure energy security and to address climate change.

The environmental changes that have swept the planet over the last twenty years are spotlighted in a new compilation of statistical data by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), released in a report entitled "Keeping Track of our Changing Environment: From Rio to Rio+20".

Results-Based Financing (RBF) refers to a broad family of financial instruments. With RBF, public funding is provided
only if pre-specified results have been achieved. Its use in the sanitation sector has so far been limited, as opposed