While cities like Bogota, Helsinki and Singapore are actively harnessing the potential of data to improve services, few agree on how different types of cities should aggregate, analyse and apply data to their immediate issues and strategic challenges. Indeed, concern among rights activists and residents is growing about the way personal data is being gathered and used, including by urban authorities. This report offers a look at what data exists, and how cities can take the best next steps to make the most of it.

This insight report highlights the experiences and perspectives of 11 industrial clusters that are a part of the Transitioning Industrial Clusters towards Net Zero initiative. These clusters, despite facing unique geographical, infrastructure, policy and sectoral challenges, have all developed comprehensive strategies to rapidly and equitably decarbonize their operations.

By making climate-friendly technologies more readily available, trade can support climate action, and governments must work together to encourage their uptake.

This edition of the report refocuses on the need for urgent action towards the transition. Despite making progress on decarbonization and improving on infrastructure, the world still falls short of achieving balanced progress on all aspects of the energy triangle.

The Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023 report, now in its 11th year, highlights the technologies set to positively impact society within the next three to five years. This comprehensive report goes beyond listing the top 10 technologies and their associated risks and opportunities. It provides a qualitative assessment of each technology's potential impact on people, the planet, prosperity, industry and equity.

This report draws global attention to how the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened stark inequalities in cities around the world. This report makes the urgent case for greater urban inclusion, and provides guidance and inspiration to cities on how to achieve it. The report helps cities to understand that there are different dimensions of urban inclusion and provides a 10-step action plan to advance inclusion with a sequence of actions to enable urban inclusion in the spatial, digital, social/institutional, and economic realms on a spectrum from getting started to advanced action.

This report reveals how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Asia's emerging economies can play a key role in helping to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss, by using green bonds to upgrade their economic activities from polluting to green.

Reviews the rapid growth of electric vehicles (EVs) in China over the past decade and compares China’s evolution and future development vision for EVs with those of the United States and Europe.

Presents a bottom-up, global carbon dioxide emissions inventory for three years of commercial aviation and estimates emissions and carbon intensity by both seating class and aircraft class.

The European vehicle market statistics pocketbook offers a statistical portrait of passenger car and light commercial vehicle fleets in the European Union, updated annually. The emphasis is on vehicle technologies and emissions of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants. Brief introductions to each chapter note important trends and provide selected comparisons to other large vehicle markets.