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This activity report presents how the Inter-American Development Bank’s support translate into positive actions and impacts in the region, while highlighting some examples of how sustainability is the key transversal ingredient to help countries advance in achieving their development objectives. The analysis takes into account The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Climate Change Agreement as well as the specific location of Latin America and Caribbean region, which is susceptible to natural disasters, including hurricanes, landslides, droughts, and earthquakes. 

The analytical report is aligned with the theme of the 2017 High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF): “Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world”. It focuses on the following six goals of the HLPF: Goal 1 (End Poverty); Goal 2 – (Zero Hunger); Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-being); Goal 5 (Gender Equality); Goal 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure); and Goal 14 (Life below water). It observes that Africa’s infrastructure deficits undermine industrial development and underline the stagnation in value addition in manufacturing.

This analytical document seeks to highlight the transportation challenges experienced in cities all over the world, and identifies examples of good practice from specific cities of how to address such challenges. The report also provides recommendations on how national, provincial and local governments and other stakeholders can develop more sustainable urban futures through improved planning and design of urban transport systems.

This analytical document provides a baseline of the first release of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) linked to urban issues in the world. The specific objective of this research is to conduct a comprehensive analysis, tacking into account the adoption of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) and the entry into force of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change in 2016. 

This slide presentation proposes an introduction to the linkages between climate change, forest and agriculture. it identifies ways to address climate change and aims at developping a conceptual framework between land use programs and climate change. 

This analytical document summarises work conducted by the Uganda UN-REDD+ National programme during 2017 to guide the development of policy instruments for the Government of Uganda in order to evaluate the contribution of forests to the economy. The work conducted comprised economic modelling and analysis with the purpose of valuing the benefits of forest ecosystem services.

This analytical document illustrates practical examples and the direction of future initiatives related to the SDGs in Shimokawa in a format that, where possible, is in line with the United Nations handbook for the preparation of Voluntary National Reviews (VNR). It also aims at communicating about Japanese efforts to achieve the SDGs, in areas including environment and energy, health and welfare, advancement of women, and promotion of industry. 

Shimokawa takes part, jointly with Kitakyushu and Toyama cities, of the ‘SDGs Futures cities’, announced by the Japanese governement in June 2018.  

This analytical document evaluates the impact of Developping countries projects and initiatives through renewable energy (RE) and energy efficiency (EE). The analysis shows that low-carbon forms of development – particularly city-based public private partnerships – generate multiple co-benefits. 

This analytical document illustrates practical examples and the direction of future initiatives related to the SDGs in Kitakyushu in a format that, where possible, is in line with the United Nations handbook for the preparation of Voluntary National Reviews (VNR). It also aims at communicating about Japanese efforts to achieve the SDGs, in areas including environment and energy, health and welfare, advancement of women, and promotion of industry. 

Kitakyushu takes part, jointly with Shimokawa and Toyama cities, of the ‘SDGs Futures cities’, announced by the Japanese governement in June 2018.  

This analytical document aims at communicating about Japanese efforts to achieve the SDGs. It should forms the foundation for further deepening the “Compact City Planning based on Polycentric Transport Networks” platform for urban planning by linking the SDGs to efforts in areas including environment and energy, health and welfare, advancement of women, and promotion of industry. 

Tayoma takes part, jointly with Shimokawa and Kitakyushu cities, of the ‘SDGs Futures cities’, announced by the Japanese governement in June 2018.  

This analytical document presents a framework for multilevel governance, showing that advancing governance of climate change across all levels of government and relevant stakeholders is crucial to avoid policy gaps between local and national action plans. This virtuous integration and its benefits are explained throughout the report. 

This analytical document examines the feasibility of the incubator and accelerator approaches for climate technology entrepreneurship in developing countries. It provides findings and recommendations on how such organizations can scale-up and speed-up technology innovation for addressing climate change.

This analytical document presents an overview of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and highlights key issues related to ESD policy and practice. Topics include key ESD competencies and themes, policy, changes in the learning environment, teacher training, youth as lead actors, and scaling-up action for environmental integrity, economic viability and a just society. 

This technical document examines the impacts of rainfall variability on global food production. It also explores the human impacts of rainfall shocks and finds that in rural areas, living through a long-term drought in childhood can leave scars that follow individuals throughout their lives. It finally investigates rainfall shocks cities and water infrastructure. 

This technical document reviews and includes data on the global baseline status of SDG 6, the current situation and trends at global and regional levels, and what more needs to be done to achieve this goal by 2030. The report is based on the latest data available for the 11 SDG 6 global indicators, plus complementary data and evidence from a wide range of sources.  

This guidance document shows the role of biodiversity in achieving human security and wellbeing and presents the development of a post-2020 global strategy for biodiversity. 

This analytical document gives an overview of the plastic’s crisis. It goes on to explore the potential of alternative materials and sheds light on the effectiveness of current government legislation to cut down on single-use plastics.

This analytical report presents a summary of scientific experiments and numerical models about deoxygenation, with a focus on understanding its various aspects and impacts. It shows that human activities are primarily responsible for the decline in the open ocean and coastal waters.
 

This report seeks to elaborate UNDP’s vision for helping countries achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and goals elaborated in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to climate change.

This technical document focuses on opportunities to exploit the natural processes in the water cycle, which have become known collectively as “Nature-based Solutions” (SfNs) for water. It explains what mechanisms can be achieved to accelerate the adoption of SfN for water.