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.
Motorization Management: Fleet Renewal and Recycling Program in Egypt
Middle East and North Africa
Motorization management is a menu of measures to manage motor vehicle flows and stocks at all phases of their life cycle to support access and economic growth while reducing GHG emissions, improving air quality, and enhancing traffic safety …
Nonmotorized Transport: Cycling Strategy and Infrastructure Plan for Lima, Peru
Peru
This analytical work conducted by the World Bank in 2020 and commissioned by the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima cites a lack of sound policy, infrastructure investment, and promotion for developing smarter and greener mobility systems …
Taxing Carbon for Development: Lessons from British Columbia
Canada
The British Columbia (BC) carbon tax stands out as a model for decarbonizing development because the policy design led to several positive outcomes, including: a net increase in economic growth; a decrease in income inequality and …
The United Kingdom Climate Change Act: A Climate Change Framework Law
United Kingdom
National framework legislation can provide stability and direction to achieve climate goals. This form of legislation can help create the institutions required to plan, implement, and sustain credible commitments on climate policies that …
Reducing Deforestation in Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia's economic success has been accompanied by one of the world's highest rates of forest loss. Despite these significant challenges, Indonesia has started to reverse the historically negative patterns of forest loss in recent years …
Climate Policy Implementation Check: Decarbonisation of Transport
Argentina,
Brazil,
Colombia,
Mexico,
Europe and Central Asia
2023 is the year of the first global Global Stocktake of the Paris Agreement. With the threat of overshooting the 1.5°C limit looming ever larger, all countries need to raise their ambition to curb their emissions effectively, to a degree …
Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being
India
Biodiversity conservation and human well-being are tightly interlinked. Yet, mismatches in the scale at which these two priority issues are planned and implemented have exacerbated biodiversity loss, erosion of ecosystem services and …
Tackling the challenges of assessing socioeconomic impacts of farmland restoration: The case of Malawi
Malawi
This research explores the potential of using the secondary household survey data to identify key socioeconomic indicators for tracking farmland restoration progress in Malawi since 2017. A two-year panel data for the periods between 2016 …
From Needs to Implementation: Stories from the Technology Needs Assessments (2023)
Pakistan,
Georgia,
Viet Nam,
Cambodia,
Thailand,
Liberia,
Mozambique,
Cuba,
Antigua and Barbuda
Building on four previous publications, this publication provides a new set of success stories on how countries have used their Technology Needs Assessments (TNAs) and Technology Action Plans (TAPs) to advance the implementation of climate …
SDG 6 Country Acceleration Case Studies: Brazil, Ghana and Singapore
Brazil,
Ghana,
Singapore
To accelerate the achievement of SDG 6 targets as part of the SDG 6 Global Acceleration Framework, UN-Water is developing SDG 6 Country Acceleration Case Studies to explore countries’ pathways to achieving accelerated progress on SDG 6 at …