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Countries need to build capacity and develop financial solutions for different climate risks, including those that can better address slow-onset events.

Contingency finance is a risk retention approach for addressing loss and damage associated with climate change impacts.

The lack of a dedicated financial mechanism to address climate-related loss and damage underscores the need for innovative ways to address this funding gap.

Various financial schemes have been developed to cover some of the risks of loss and damage associated with climate change impacts.

Risk reduction, retention, and transfer are risk management approaches that can be used to address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts.

Work has just started in defining and addressing the loss and damage from climate change that cannot be prevented by mitigation and adaptation efforts.

A study of nighttime luminosity in Sri Lanka shows an uptake of local economic activities in areas connected by a large-scale road project.

Shifting to a low-carbon economy entails drastic reductions in fossil fuel use and emissions as well as structural adjustments.  

Accessible funds for the industry sector accelerated investments in energy efficiency and enhanced institutional capacities.

The Clean Air Scorecard Tool helped the most polluted cities to identify gaps in air quality management and introduce measures to rectify them.