Documents & Tools

Check out our collection of publications, documents and tools on a range of different topics related to climate policy compiled specifically with policymakers, implementers and other climate experts in mind.

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Climatic Change

2017

Beyond headline mitigation numbers: we need more transparent and comparable NDCs to achieve the Paris Agreement on climate change

Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) were key to reaching the Paris Agreement and will be instrumental in implementing it. Research was quick to identify the ‘headline numbers’ of NDCs: if these climate action plans were fully…

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

2017

Enabling subnational climate action through multi-level governance

The GIZ VICLIM project, ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability) and UN Habitat present a joint working paper on lessons learnt and good examples of climate policies that unlock the potential of cities, regions and other subnational…

Climate Transparency / Overseas Development Institute (ODI) / Humboldt-Viadrina Governance Platform (HVGP)

2017

Financing the transition from brown to green. How to track country performance towards low carbon, climate-resilient economies

The understanding of how countries are progressing in their transition from brown to green models of economic development is growing. However, there remains no single set of indicators to allow an assessment of the financing of this…

Future Climate for Africa

2016

Africa's Climate - Helping decision-makers make sense of climate information

African decision-makers need reliable, accessible, and trustworthy information about the continent’s climate, and how this climate might change in future, if they are to plan appropriately to meet the region’s development challenges.The…

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

2017

ODS banks Global Roadmap Tool

This Global Roadmap Tool was elaborated within the global project on management and destruction of ODS banks and is designed for policy makers and other stakeholders who are addressing ozone depleting substances (ODS) bank management. It…

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

2017

Guidelines for the manual dismantling of refrigerators and air-conditioners

These training slides were elaborated within the global project on management and destruction of ODS banks and are meant to accompany the Guideline on the Manual Dismantling of Refrigerators and Air Conditioners. The publication was…

Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) / NewClimate Institute (NCI)

2017

NDC Update Report – The long and steep climb towards a 1.5 °C world

This report critically analyses perceptions on the NDC implementation progress among national and sector experts involved in NDC processes in emerging and developing countries. Questions addressed in the report include: How confident are we…

Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Chatham House / United Nations Environment Programme

2016

Finance guide for policy-makers: Renewable energy, green infrastructure

This guide provides a factual overview of the landscape of finance – sources of capital, what the capital markets do, how transactions work – and more broadly to set common finance terms in context.

The original guide was written was in…

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

2017

WEBINAR: Establecimiento y mejora de equipos técnicos nacionales para los INGEI en América Latina

El día 28 de noviembre de 2017 tuvo lugar un webinar sobre el establecimiento y mejora de equipos técnicos nacionales para los INGEI en América Latina. El webinar tuvo como objetivo presentar la Guía para el Establecimiento y la Mejora de…

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

2017

NDC Adaptation Toolbox

The NDC Adaptation Toolbox offers you various instruments to facilitate the development and implementation of adaptation measures for achieving NDC adaptation goals. Most instruments were originally developed in the context of the National…