Summer of 2023 was marked by an early start to the wildfire season in Lebanon as intense forest fires ravaged several parts of the country, with fires erupting including in the Akkar and North…

Andrea Kutter |

Smaller preferential trade agreements, or PTAs, has been a promising development towards bolstering international trade. Most new PTAs also include non-trade provisions that delve into other…

Nadia Rocha, Ana Fernandes |

During COP15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), in December 2022 in Montreal, a message was clear: Ministries of Finance play a critical role in achieving commitments set out in the…

Olha Krushelnytska, Frank van Lerven, Camille Maclet |

Recent deforestation alerts suggest that forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon is slowing. This is good news – but also not entirely surprising. Economic models are becoming increasingly able to…

Marek Hanusch, Dieter Wang, Philipp Kollenda, Cornelius Fleischhaker |

Investigating measures to curb Amazon deforestation, this blog dove into policies ranging from increasing designated public land and financial incentives for conservation to investing in urban…

Marek Hanusch, Charly Porcher |

The end of the last commodity supercycle (2002-2014) plunged oil-dependent nations into a prolonged recession, undoing the progress they had made during the boom. The Republic of Congo, Sub-…

Vincent Belinga, Jose Luis Diaz Sanchez, Marilyne Mafoboue Youbi, Joana Monteiro da Mota |

The Honduras Climate and Development Report outlines opportunities for improvement in areas such as natural resource management, implementation of agricultural practices to reduce deforestation,…

Katharina Siegmann, Elena Bondarenko, Kinnon Scott |

Brazil is fortunate. Few countries today can both give their people a better life and manage the impacts of climate change.

Carlos Felipe Jaramillo, Johannes Zutt |

Financial instruments need fine tuning to work in harmony with our sustainable development goals. Third in a three-part blog series on the potential for sustainable-linked financing at the…

Fiona Stewart, Anderson Caputo Silva, Bryan Gurhy, William Baghdassarian |