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Global Commission to End Energy Poverty: Inception Report
Notable Reports
Some 850 million people still lack access to energy.  “The Integrated Distribution Framework” is proposed, to integrate “energy access into financially sustainable utility concession agreements.  Seeking “universal energy access” to...
Energy
Roadmap to 2050: A Manual for Nations to Decarbonize by Mid-Century
Notable Reports
Includes the “expert input from more than 60 engineers and industry leaders who participated in an April 2019 workshop organized around power, industry, transport, and buildings decarbonization.” Outlines six pillars...
Guidelines/ Framework, Low-Carbon/ Decarbonisation
Six Transformations to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
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Introduces the concept of six transformational “building-blocks of SDG achievement: (1) education, gender and inequality; (2) health, well-being and demography; (3) energy decarbonization and sustainable industry; (4) sustainable food, land,...
Sustainable Development Goals, Transformation/Change
Climate Change and Land
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This Special Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change looks into the connection between climate change and land, but also the impacts of human land use on the ecosystem....
Climate Change, Ecosystems, Land Use/ Management
Creating a Sustainable Food Future: Solutions to Feed Nearly 10 Billion People by 2050
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A Report by the World Resources Institute, World Bank, UNEP, UNDP that tries to answer the question of how we can sustainably feed the nearly 10 billion people that are...
Food, Food Security
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019
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An annual report by the Food and Agriculture Organization that presents the latest estimates on food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition at the global and regional levels. The 2019 edition continues...
Food, Food Security
US Cities Sustainable Development Report 2019
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This report by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network has ranked 105 cities annually since 2017. The results show that there will be significant work to do across the board if...
Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development Report 2019: Transformations to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
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A report by the Bertelsmann Stiftung and Sustainable Development Solutions Network which includes the SDG Index and Dashboard with considerable detail finding mixed results.  Denmark, Sweden and Finland top the...
Sustainable Development Goals, Transformation/Change
Plastic & Climate The hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet
Notable Reports
A sobering detailed, comprehensive, and richly referenced and illustrated analysis that asserts that, whether measured by its present scale or projected growth, the existing plastic economy is fundamentally inconsistent with...
Climate Change, Plastic, Pollution
The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment: Mountains, Climate Change, Sustainability, and People
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The HKH region extends over all or part of 8 countries, encompasses 1.8 billion people—nearly six times the U.S. population--and is the source of 10 major river systems.  This extensive...
Water, Water Security