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Africa’s Gas Road to Nowhere: South Africa’s Policy Debate on Using Gas to Accelerate the Energy Transition
Business case for integrated retrofit: How banks, insurers, and the government can support healthy, efficient, and resilient homes
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Circular Solar: The Opportunities For Increased Circularity In The Solar PV Industry
Climate and Nature: A Route to Mutual Acceleration
Competing in the Age of Disruption
Delivering retrofit at scale together: Better homes for healthier, resilient and stronger communities
Everything, everywhere, all at once: how can private finance be unlocked for nature and climate in the international financial architecture
Examining the place of supermarkets in local household food insecurity
Exploring the potential health impacts of electrifying two-wheelers in Kampala, Uganda
Fashioning a nature positive future: A biodiversity roadmap exploring the Transforming the Fashion Sector with Nature outputs for businesses in the fashion, textile and apparel sector
Financing Africa’s Low Carbon Transition
From perceptions to practice in scaling blended finance to EMDEs
Future of Boards Phase 2
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Is reaching net zero a growth and prosperity plan? Economics, tools and actions for a rapidly changing world
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Mike Peirce: Introduction – The Future in Practice
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Planning decisions, adaptive capacity and insurability: Findings from a case study of flooding in Somerset, UK
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Renewable Food - A Transformed and Renewable Food System Is Now Possible
Report on Scaling Finance for Nature: Barrier Breakdown
Rewiring finance – a new approach to financing a sustainable economy
Risk sharing for Loss and Damage: Scaling up protection for the Global South
Shape or be Shaped: Activating Business in an Age of Disruption
Survival of the Fittest: From ESG to Competitive Sustainability
The Catchment Management Declaration: a renewed, collaborative commitment to water
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The ClimateWise Principles Independent Review for 2023
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The Tipping Point: Building Trust in the Circular Economy
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