This report is the first comprehensive attempt to assess direct deforestation induced by the global mining sector and provide an estimate of indirect...
Natural resources play an important role for growth and development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The region is home to extensive reserves of metals and...
As countries around the world rally behind net zero targets, hydrogen is increasingly seen as a missing piece of the energy transformation puzzle to decarbonise...
Resources, including minerals and metals, underpin the world’s economies for almost all sectors, providing crucial raw materials for their industrial processes...
International cooperation in support of a global energy transition is on the rise. Initiatives and fora for multilateral cooperation are complemented by growing...
The Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) is an independent monitoring tool of countries' climate protection performances. It compares climate protection...
Current trends depict an irreversible momentum for a global energy transformation. Renewables have moved to the centre of the global energy landscape...
"From Riches to Rags?" looks into the subject of stranded assets in the fossil fuel sector. Stranded assets are assets that lose value, or generate new...
While research on climate change and urban violence are independently strong, few efforts have been made to understand the linkages between them. To date, there...
The world has passed the ‘Trump Test’ on climate. At the G20 Summit in Hamburg, all 19 partners with the exception of the new U.S. Administration stood united...
World-wide, cities are on the advance. Today, they host more than half of the world's population and every minute, their population grows by 140 people: 200,000...
Cities are on the sharp end of a range of risks from criminal violence, terrorism and war to demographic pressures, to climate and environmental change. Coastal...
A low-emission transition will require profound changes in terms of infrastructure, business models as well as individual habits. In order to support this...
At the Habitat III conference in Quito, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat) launched, ‘Addressing Climate Change in National Urban...
The growing number and impact of extreme weather events has led to increasing awareness in the extractives industries of the potential negative impacts of...
This Book is part of the Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management-series and examines the nexus between water, food and energy as basic resources which...
This report focuses on energy-water conflicts which are linked to the coal industry's impact on current and future water demand. Published by Greenpeace...
This paper examines the relevance of cities and city networks in the current international climate policy architecture, especially with respect to the evolution...
In the context of gender and climate change, focus is often laid on women as a particularly vulnerable group that is strongly affected by the impacts of climate...