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Reforming Kerosene Subsidies in India: Towards better alternatives
This study aims to address the key question of how to best rationalize the kerosene subsidy to improve the government effectiveness as well as provide the maximum benefit to the households spending on the fuel. The report finds that subsidizing kerosene essentially fails to meet the objective of providing affordable cooking and lighting service to households.
Providing Clean Cooking Fuel in India: Challenges and solutions
This report explores the issues and challenges of clean cooking in urban India through a case study of the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation in Uttar Pradesh. The report analyses results from a survey of 250 households in Ghaziabad district which yielded statistics and insights on clean cooking coverage and accessibility, energy usage and prices and how gender is an important determinant of cleaner cooking fuels.
DBTL Performance Evaluation: Insights from the world's largest subsidy benefit transfer scheme
This report evaluates the modified DBTL scheme, Direct Benefit Transfer for LPG, recognized as the world’s largest benefit transfer scheme. The evaluation reports on the the efficacy of the scheme against its stated objectives and its implementation process, as well as the experiences of key stakeholders with the scheme’s implementation and impact.
Roadmap for China: Green Bond Guidelines for the Next Stage of Market Growth
This report sets out a roadmap for the next steps of the green bond guidelines in the Chinese domestic green bond market with the aim of harmonizing these guidelines with international practice.
Roadmap for China: Scaling Up Green Bond Market Issuance
This report provides a roadmap for China to scale up the issuance of green bonds in the domestic market and develop the overseas RMB-denominated market by identifying and addressing the current challenges that limit green bond issuance.
Bottom-up Accountability for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Are subnational indicator systems aligned?
This briefing note evaluates, as a test case, alignment between subnational sustainable development indicators and the new Sustainable Development Goal indicators.
Dr. Mostafa Tolba: Architect of the Montreal Protocol, IPCC and Biodiversity Convention
A tribute to the life of Dr. Mostafa Tolba, who sadly passed away on March 28, 2016. Dr. Mostafa Tolba led the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for almost 20 years, and played a pivotal role in setting the global environmental agenda.
Follow-Up and Review for the 2030 Agenda: Bringing coherence to the work of the HLPF
IISD prepared this contribution to informal consultations going on in New York as the first step in a process leading to a resolution in the UN General Assembly on follow-up and review for the 2030 Agenda.
Rapid Scenario-Planning Exercise to Review Risks of the Agricultural Sector
The brief summarizes the outcomes of a rapid scenario-planning exercise to stress test a series of business risk-management programs under a set of plausible economic, social and environmental conditions.
CRiSTAL Parks User’s Manual Version 1
CRiSTAL Parks is a project-planning tool designed to help project planners and managers integrate climate risks into conservation planning.