Global Program on Sustainability

Compiling Climate Change Indicators: An Accounting Approach

The course introduces concepts relevant to compiling indicators that inform climate change. Covered topics include: climate change policies and indicators; energy and air emission accounts; and data sources. The deadline for receipt of nominations is January 11, 2023.

Nature's Moment

Despite unprecedented biodiversity loss and the onset of a new mass extinction, natural systems continue to be degraded, both directly by human activities and indirectly by the broader climate crisis. The collective global challenge of both protecting and rejuvenating the world’s biodiversity has become more urgent than ever.

Finance and Biodiversity Day

The event provided an opportunity for the global financial community to engage in discussion, share perspectives, and communicate on their action, achievements and commitments related to the integration of biodiversity within financial decision-making.

Challenges and Opportunities for Scaling up Financing for Restoration

Ecosystems support all life on Earth. The healthier our ecosystems are, the healthier the planet – and its people. However, in recent decades, ecosystems have been subject to persistent degradation and loss, threatening the livelihoods, wellbeing, food and water security, and resilience of millions.

The Natural Capital Accounting Forum

The 2022 Forum focused on financing for nature with discussion on the role natural capital and ecosystem services data and analytics plays in investment and policy decisions.