Increased use of renewable energy, combined with intensified electrification, could prove decisive for the world to meet key climate goals by 2050. This study from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) highlights immediately deployable, cost-effective options for countries to fulfil climate commitments and ... More ...
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Global Resources Outlook 2019
Much is at stake as global society approaches the final decade before the Sustainable Development Goals are fixed to be realized in 2030. The international community has set high ambitions for global prosperity, the protection of our biological diversity and land resources, and limiting global warming. Progress towards ... More ...
Global Environment Outlook 6
Published in time for the Fourth United Nations Environmental Assembly, UN Environment’s sixth Global Environment Outlook (2019) calls on decision makers to take immediate action to address pressing environmental issues to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals as well as other Internationally Agreed Environment ... More ...
Background report: Towards a socio-ecological transformation of the economy
On the occasion of the Growth in Transition Conference 2018, the initiative "Growth in Transition" presents a background report on a socio-ecological transformation of the economic system. Download background report (pdf). About the report: The report "Towards a Socio-ecological Transformation of the Economy" ... More ...
Our World. Our Future!
In 2015 the UN General Assembly adopted the 17 goals for a more equal and sustainable world – the so called Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Among these goals are for example: to end starvation and poverty as well as providing clean water and good healthcare for all people in the world. These big goals can only be ... More ...
New publication by UNESCO: Education for Sustainable Development Goals – Learning Objectives
To address global challenges such as climate change or poverty, students need knowledge and skills. The new UNESCO publication "Education for Sustainable Development Goals: Learning Objectives" aims at helping teachers to integrate the sustainability objectives into teaching and curricula. Education for Sustainable ... More ...
Green Growth Indicators 2017
Many countries have become more efficient in using natural resources and the services provided by the environment, generating more economic output per unit of carbon emitted and of energy or raw materials consumed. Yet progress is too slow, and if emissions embodied in international trade are included, advances in ... More ...
REPORT: NEW INNOVATION APPROACHES TO SUPPORT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development puts forward a broad and ambitious agenda for global action on sustainable development. The scale and ambition of the Sustainable Development Goals require innovation in development and innovation for development. To achieve the Goals by 2030, new modalities for development ... More ...
Migration, Environment and Climate Change: The Atlas of Environmental Migration
Environmental migration can not be denied. The Atlas of Environmental Migration is the first illustrated publication mapping this complex phenomenon. It clarifies terminology and concepts, draws a typology of migration related to environment and climate change, describes the multiple factors at play, explains the ... More ...
Synthesis report of the Growth in Transition-Policy Papers
The objective of this synthesis report is to summarize the Policy Papers that are currently available and contains the results of the Policy Science Stakeholder Dialogue 2011-2013. More specifically, the following topics are discussed: Life quality Public spending Employment/work Macroeconomic ... More ...
Synthesis report of the Growth in Transition-Policy Papers is online!
The objective of this synthesis report is to summarize the Policy Papers that are currently available and contains the results of the Policy Science Stakeholder Dialogue 2011-2013. More specifically, the following topics are discussed: Life quality Public spending Employment/work Macroeconomic ... More ...
The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters
05.2011, Diane Coyle The new book by Diane Coyle The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a ... More ...
