This UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre paper examines the challenges faced by central banks and financial regulators in emerging markets and developing economies and distils key lessons from the Reserve Bank of Malawi’s experiences that can guide other institutions beginning to integrate climate considerations into their operations.
This guideline provides a high-level, practice-informed resource for countries seeking to strengthen national responses to loss and damage. It synthesizes current concepts, evidence, policy debates, and emerging good practices, and offers an overarching framework to support reflection on, scoping, and refinement of national loss and damage strategies and related processes. Rather than prescribing a single blueprint or detailed step-by-step procedures, […]
This brief provides a summary of business and financing models for scaling solar-powered irrigation systems (SPIS) in Uganda. It highlights SPIS as a strategic climate technology for Uganda’s agriculture sector, which employs about 70% of the population but faces significant climate risks. The brief demonstrates that SPIS can increase crop yields, enable off-season production, and stabilize farmer incomes. It reviews […]
This practitioners brief is for government officials, practitioners, and partners who need to turn the Loss and Damage agenda into concrete national action. It builds on the Strengthening National Responses to Loss and Damage guide, available here. Effective Loss and Damage strategies recognize that some impacts can still be avoided or reduced through better risk management, while others require measures to […]
The challenges of climate change and rapid urbanization present central obstacles to sustainable development in cities of low- and middle-income countries. Urban Nature-based Solutions (NbS) receive growing attention as potential remedies for these challenges because they offer environmental and social co-benefits in comparison to conventional grey or engineered solutions. In practice, NbS co-exist and positively complement conventional grey or engineered […]
Climate change and rapid urbanization are central challenges to sustainable development in cities of low and middle-income countries. Nature-based Solutions can address these challenges and offer environmental and social benefits over traditional engineered solutions, and in practice co-exist and positively complement engineered solutions. However, the uptake of NbS in urban planning remains limited and implementation faces several barriers. The need […]
Floods, flash floods and droughts are central climate impacts in urban areas in Zambia according to the scientific literature. This is underscored by recent examples of flash floods in Lusaka during the 2024/25 rainy season and increasing stress on Lusaka’s water supply. These impacts are likely to further aggravate as climate change intensifies. Urban Nature-based Solutions (NbS) like bio-retention basins, […]
With the Baku decisions on operationalizing Article 6, the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM) has made a decisive step towards implementation. The development is accompanied by the growing policy attention being given by major global economies to international market mechanisms. As of late, the European Union (EU) has announced in its latest 2040 target that it intends to utilize markets […]
The uptake of higher-tier (4+) clean cooking solutions, especially in last mile communities, is a critical but often underfunded and insufficiently prioritised need. Despite a diversity of viable technologies, including pure electric cooking (eCooking) powered by photovoltaic systems (solar PV) and PV-supported biomass gasifier stoves, as well as ethanol stoves, their widespread adoption remains a challenge due to various barriers, […]