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February 2021

Energy Transition Leaders Upper Austria: Companies on Their Way to Climate Neutrality

O. Ö. Energiesparverband, Upper Austria
This case study demonstrates how companies can strategically approach climate neutrality and make it an integral part of their normal business practices, which investments are necessary, and what additional benefits it can create for them.
January 2021

Boulder Organic Foods: Light-weighting Secondary Packaging to Reduce Climate Impact

Climate Collaborative
For this case study, Boulder Organic Foods used a Life Cycle Assessment to measure their packaging emissions and create a packaging strategy that maintains food safety and quality while minimizing climate impacts.
December 2020

Green Economy Policy Review of South Africa's Industrial Policy Framework

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
This report reviews South Africa’s industrial policy, from an inclusive green economy lens. It investigates the extent to which South Africa’s industrial policy is responding to, if not driving, the country’s transition. Building on this analysis, recommendations to foster green industrial development in South Africa can be formulated. They are split into four complementary components: capacity building; policy mainstreaming; information/data systems; and transition planning.
October 2020

Building a Climate Resilient Future for Costa Rica’s Coffee Farming Communities

World Resources Institute (WRI)
This practice note examines how climate change is threatening coffee-growing regions in Costa Rica, specifically the Coto Brus region. The case study outlines key findings from this region, including main challenges and existing factors that present opportunities to enhance climate resilience, and recommends actions that key sectoral actors can take to improve the sector’s climate resilience and long-term sustainability.
September 2020

Putting Electric Logistics Vehicles to Work in Shenzhen

Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)
This report series—Putting Electric Logistics Vehicles to Work in Shenzhen—provides a reference point and a goal post for governments looking to reduce the health and climate impacts of freight transport in their communities. It takes a deep dive into how Shenzhen, a metropolis in Southern China, has electrified logistics vehicles and where it can make changes to accelerate that transition.
August 2020

Closing the Loop On Plastic Waste in Southeast Asia: Urban case studies

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
Closing the Loop, a project implemented by ESCAP in partnership with the Government of Japan, aims to reduce the environmental impact of four cities in ASEAN by tackling plastic pollution. This report was developed in support of the second broad objective 'to work with partner cities and develop action plans, policies and investment strategies to address marine plastic litter'.
July 2020

Case Study of An Energy Project in Health Facilities in Kenya: How to Implement Demand-Based Approaches

World Resources Institute (WRI)
This report analyses the factors that underpinned the loan repayment and highlighted the importance of the demand-based approach when designing energy access projects.
May 2020

South African Fruit Packing Company Implements Cooling as a Service (CaaS) Initiative

Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy (BASE), The Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program (K-CEP)

This case study outlines the findings learned from Afrupro, a South African fruit packing company. Through its outsourced cooling solution, it upgraded its ammonia plant to provide better, more reliable cost-efficient cooling.

April 2020

Use of 4IR Technologies in Water and Sanitation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development bank(IDB)
The goal of this report is to provide an overview of some of the current applications of key 4IR technologies (Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things and Big Data, Blockchain, Drones and Remote Sensing, and Virtual and Augmented Reality) in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene sector (WASH) globally and in the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) region, and outline the main opportunities and challenges in deploying these technologies in the WASH sector.
March 2020

Mobilizing Private Capital and Know-How to Turn Waste into Energy

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
This case study explores how public-private partnerships can help make clean technologies for turning waste into energy accessible to cities.

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October 2020

Building a Climate Resilient Future for Costa Rica’s Coffee Farming Communities

World Resources Institute (WRI)
This practice note examines how climate change is threatening coffee-growing regions in Costa Rica, specifically the Coto Brus region. The case study outlines key findings from this region, including main challenges and existing factors that present opportunities to enhance climate resilience, and recommends actions that key sectoral actors can take to improve the sector’s climate resilience and long-term sustainability.

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February 2021

Energy Transition Leaders Upper Austria: Companies on Their Way to Climate Neutrality

O. Ö. Energiesparverband, Upper Austria
This case study demonstrates how companies can strategically approach climate neutrality and make it an integral part of their normal business practices, which investments are necessary, and what additional benefits it can create for them.
January 2021

Boulder Organic Foods: Light-weighting Secondary Packaging to Reduce Climate Impact

Climate Collaborative
For this case study, Boulder Organic Foods used a Life Cycle Assessment to measure their packaging emissions and create a packaging strategy that maintains food safety and quality while minimizing climate impacts.
December 2020

Green Economy Policy Review of South Africa's Industrial Policy Framework

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
This report reviews South Africa’s industrial policy, from an inclusive green economy lens. It investigates the extent to which South Africa’s industrial policy is responding to, if not driving, the country’s transition. Building on this analysis, recommendations to foster green industrial development in South Africa can be formulated. They are split into four complementary components: capacity building; policy mainstreaming; information/data systems; and transition planning.
October 2020

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Building a Climate Resilient Future for Costa Rica’s Coffee Farming Communities

World Resources Institute (WRI)
This practice note examines how climate change is threatening coffee-growing regions in Costa Rica, specifically the Coto Brus region. The case study outlines key findings from this region, including main challenges and existing factors that present opportunities to enhance climate resilience, and recommends actions that key sectoral actors can take to improve the sector’s climate resilience and long-term sustainability.
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