This article provides an overview of different ways adaptive pathways planning has been used across the world, and the lessons learned from a decade’s worth of different applications.
This journal article explains dynamic adaptive pathways planning and provides an example of its application to resilient development planning in an Irish city.
This is a very interesting report that recommends radical ways to change governance for sustainable development, in response to the chaos caused by the (then ongoing) COVID-19 pandemic. It is a great example of the types of completely new ideas that futures approaches can generate.
This is a step-by-step guide for energy planners, providing advice on which stakeholders to engage in energy planning, how to engage them, when in the planning process to engage them, and how to ensure that participatory processes create ownership and generate useful results.
Government spending and other forms of actual support to renewable energy is a blind spot at the international level. To help address the knowledge gap, IISD developed an inventory of public financial support for renewable energy generation and integration by G20 governments. It shows that G20 governments provided over $168 billion in public financial support … Continue reading “Public Financial Support for Renewable Power Generation and Integration in the G20 Countries”
Despite strong calls for energy subsidy reforms, governments around the world still spend billions subsidising fossil fuel consumption each year. This report investigates how reforms can be designed that work in practice, drawing on over a decade of World Bank experience supporting these processes.
This article provides a summary of a webinar in which experts discussed how trade policies can boost renewable energy manufacturing in Africa and other regions of the Global South.
This is a visual summary of a report that explores how trade policy, including the setting or elimination of tariffs and other measures, can support the expansion of solar and wind generation worldwide.
This brief explains the importance and benefits of an internationally harmonized quality assurance framework for small scale solar photovoltaic (pico-PV) products. Benefits are outlined for specific stakeholder groups, and a summary of the Lighting Global Quality Assurance (QA) Framework is provided for reference.
This brief explains the role of product testing in standard-setting for off-grid solar products. It provides recommendations based on good practices and explains how the Lighting Global Quality Assurance Program can help governments implement and enforce standards.