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European Commission staff have to write many different types of documents. Whatever the type — legislation, a technical report, minutes, a press release or speech — a clear document will be more effective, and more easily and quickly understood. This guide will help you to write clearly whether you are using your own language or one of the other official languages, all of which…

In this paper, IFAD rethinks its approach in line with and building on lessons learned from field experience in poverty reduction, national governments’ priorities and its own expertise in smallholder agriculture and rural development. This approach draws on the priorities identified during the preparatory meetings for the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (Samoa,…

This manual offers guidance on implementing a green economy approach to sustainable development, and comes at a unique moment in time when many countries and organizations are looking at the potential of bringing sustainability concerns into the heart of economic policy. The manual contributes to the ongoing discussion on green economy in three ways. It clarifies the original starting point…

This manual provides guidance to users at the country level on the selection of indicators and their use as a tool for identifying priority issues, formulating and assessing green economy policy options, and evaluating the performance of policy implementation. In particular, a series of steps are suggested for the identification and use of indicators throughout the integrated policymaking (IP)…

Starting from the definition of a green economy (what needs to be measured and analysed), this report aims to provide (1) a framework to review and select methodologies and models, and (2) information on what tools are available to governments and are currently being used to support the analysis of green economy strategies at the national and sectoral levels.This work focuses on the…

The present document will be part of the information upon which the Parties to the United Nations Montreal Protocol will base their future decisions regarding ozone-depleting substances, their alternatives, and protection of the ozone layer. It is the latest in a long series of scientific assessments that have informed the Parties.