The Good Practice Database presents various examples of good practices worldwide which demonstrate how climate policies and actions are being effectively designed and implemented across a range of national contexts. This analysis is a joint initiative of the Partnership on Transparency in the Paris Agreement, the UNDP Low Emission Capacity Building Programme and the NDC Support Cluster.

Indigenous knowledge reveals history of fire-prone California forest

United States , North America
A collaboration between scientists and Native American tribes finds tree density in parts of the Klamath Mountains is at a record high, and at risk of serious wildfires. Indigenous oral accounts have helped scientists to reconstruct a 3,000 …

Analytical Capacity for Long-Term Strategies

Brazil, China, Germany, India, United States , South Asia, Latin America and Caribbean, East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, North America
This case study examines five countries (Brazil, China, Germany, India, and the United States) and assesses the diverse approaches these countries have taken that inform the ongoing evolution of good practice in developing long-term …

International Best Practices for Implementing and Designing Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) Policies

South Africa, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Latin America and Caribbean, East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa
A Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) is a public policy tool requiring a certain amount of renewable electricity relative to the entire electricity supply. These policies are meant to increase generation from “renewable”, or more broadly …

Making Progress on President Obama’s Climate Action Plan

United States , North America
In 2013, President Obama announced the Climate Action Plan (CAP), the first comprehensive plan of the United States to address climate change. The CAP outlines 75 climate-related goals and respective actions that are subsumed under three …