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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NDC Partnership

2017

Climate Watch

Climate Watch is an online platform designed to empower policymakers, researchers, media and other stakeholders with the open climate data, visualizations and resources they need to gather insights on national and global progress on climate…

NDC Partnership

2017

NDC Toolbox Navigator

The NDC Toolbox Navigator is a searchable database of tools and resources to support NDC implementation. It includes key analytical tools and guidance documents, experience profiles, links to other knowledge platforms, and sources of…

NDC Partnership

2017

NDC Funding and Initiatives Navigator

The Funding and Initiatives Navigator is a searchable database of financial and technical assistance programs available for implementing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). It aggregates information on existing sources of assistance…

CDP

2017

Transparent climate action taken by states and regions – new analytic tool

The successful implementation of the Paris Agreement depends on the application of a strong transparency mechanism. This is fundamental to measuring the global community’s progress in meeting the target of well-below 2 degrees Celsius. Gove…

Sustainable Infrastructure Foundation

2017

SOURCE

SOURCE is a joint global initiative from Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) and Private-public Partners, in response to the G20, for addressing the global infrastructure gap and advancing the United Nations sustainable development agenda…

USAID / ICF

2017

Clean Energy Emission Reduction (CLEER) Tool

USAID’s Resources to Advance LEDS Implementation (RALI) has developed a user-friendly web platform available to the public to help users estimate and report GHG emissions avoided and energy generated or saved as a result of Clean Energy…

The World Bank

2017

World Bank's Mitigation Action Assessment Protocol (MAAP) tool

The World Bank has developed the Mitigation Action Assessment Protocol (MAAP), a key tool for achieving transparency in how climate actions are designed. It can be a useful tool to assess the completeness of NAMA or mitigation action…

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…