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NOTE: Provided here is a selection of recent publications, toolkits and online resources intended to support participants’ learning during the 2026 Global Knowledge Forum on Carbon Pricing and Markets and I4C Conference. This selection is neither comprehensive nor prescriptive.
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Setting Targets & Plans: NDC, LTS and NAP
Guidance for Policy Makers on the Role of Domestic Carbon Procing and International Carbon Credit Markets in Achieving LTSs and NDCs
Guidance note | Year of publication: 2026
A practical framework to integrate carbon pricing and carbon markets into Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and Long-Term Strategies (LTS) to drive investment, financing, and implementation of resilient and low-carbon economic growth.
From Paper to Practice: A Practical Guide for Formulating and Institutionalizing Long-Term Climate Strategies
Guidance note | Year of publication: 2026
This guidance note aims to equip governments and practitioners with a practical “how-to” framework for both formulating and institutionalizing LTSs. It focuses on the formulation of technically sound LTSs and their institutional integration, which involves embedding long-term low-emission and climate resilient pathways within planning, budgeting, and decision-making processes across government so they can be operationalized.
Setting Priorities for Action
Country Climate and Development Reports
Reports | Year of publication: Various
The World Bank Group’s Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) are a core diagnostic that integrates climate change and development. They support countries to identify how to accelerate their development ambitions in line with their own nationally determined contributions and long-term strategies. The reports suggest concrete, priority actions that countries can take to develop while building resilience
Jobs in a changing Climate
Reports | Year of publication: 2025
Investments in building climate resilience can deliver benefits equivalent to 150 million jobs by 2050. This report, which draws on evidence representing 64 percent of the population and 77 percent of the GDP of low- and middle-income countries, demonstrates ways that countries can integrate their own climate and development goals to drive job creation, economic growth, and resilience.
Climate Change Knowledge Portal
Data | Year of publication: Ongoing
The Climate Change Knowledge Portal (CCKP) is the hub for climate-related information, data, and tools, currently offered at national, sub-national, and watershed scales. The successful integration of scientific information in decision making often depends on the use of flexible frameworks and authoritative data, which the CCKP provides and contextualizes for porject preparation and implmentation.
Carbon Pricing and Markets > Preparing & assessing
Better Together: How Policy Mixes Make Carbon pricing Deliver
Report and toolkit | Year of publication: 2026
This report and capacity building toolkit presents the evidence that the world's largest emission reductions came not from any single policy but from coordinated combinations — and that carbon pricing is the catalyst that accelerates the adoption of the wider policy mix. Drawing on cross-national data, eight country case studies, and a five-pillar diagnostic framework, it offers a practical playbook for designing policy packages that make carbon pricing deliver.
Navigating Decisions in Carbon Markets
Framework | Year of publication: 2024
Recognizing both the significant benefits potentially opened by carbon pricing and markets to developing countries and the challenges these countries face in accessing them, this high-level guidance document offers structured questions to guide the development of a host country’s carbon market strategy. It also constitues a clear entry point to the most relevant tools and resources provided by Technical Assistance partners for countries to engage in carbon markets.
Carbon Pricing and Markets > Designing and Implementing
The Legal & Regulatory Reforms Toolkit for High-Integrity Carbon Markets
Toolkit | Year of publication: 2026
The Legal & Regulatory Reforms Toolkit for High-Integrity Carbon Markets offers guidance for governments looking to develop or strengthen the legal and regulatory frameworks that underpin carbon market participation – recognizing that every country's context, priorities, and starting point will differ. The toolkit is designed primarily for government officials and policymakers who are responsible for shaping their country's carbon market rules – including legislators, ministry staff, and regulators. It is also a useful reference for international partners, investors, and project developers who need to understand what a well-functioning national framework looks like.
Country Guidance for Navigating Carbon Markets
Guidance note | Year of publication: 2025
This guidance note is meant to help countries unlock the potential offered by carbon markets to mobilize financing in support of climate and wider developmental objectives, while managing risks. It identifies options, evaluates their strengths and weaknesses, and supports informed decision making.A follow-up to the "Navigating Decisions in Carbon Markets" framework, this Guidance Document helps host countries develop a strategic approach for engaging with international carbon markets. It is structured into seven modules and is designed to help countries explore and answer fundamental questions on their participation in international carbon markets.
Technical Guidance for Safe, Efficient, and Interoperable Carbon Markets Infrastructure
Knowledge base | Year of publication: 2025
The Carbon Markets Infrastructure Working Group (CMI WG) brings together over 45 entities to strengthen global infrastructure for high-integrity carbon markets. Through five targeted Technical Guidance Notes, the CMI WG provides recommendations to countries and market actors in addressing key challenges related to ecosystem governance, transaction integrity, information security, data interoperability, and digital MRV.
Carbon Pricing and Markets > Learning from Implementation
Emission Trading Systems
Knowledge base | Year of publication: 2025
In an emission trading system (ETS), the government places a limit on the amount of GHG emissions from covered entities. To maximize effectiveness, an ETS needs to be designed in a way that is appropriate to its context. The resources outlined in this page are intended to help decision makers, policy practitioners and stakeholders achieve this goal.
Carbon Tax
Knowledge base | Year of publication: 2025
Through a carbon tax a government levies a fee on covered entities for their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, providing a financial incentive to reduce emissions. Adopting a carbon tax is a significant policy decision that requires careful planning. Moving from preparation to implementation, there are many key decisions to consider, with a whole range of linkages and interdependencies. The resources outlined in this page are intended to help decision makers, policy practitioners and stakeholders make an informed choice throughout the process.
Carbon Credit Markets
Knowledge base | Year of publication: 2025
Carbon credit markets trade “carbon credits,” which are units that represent an emission reduction, avoidance or removal equivalent to one metric ton of carbon dioxide (tCO2e), generated through voluntarily implemented mitigation activities. The resources outlined in this page are intended to help decision makers, policy practitioners and stakeholders make informed choices at all stages of carbon credit markets implementation.
Adaptation & Resilience Solutions: Preparing & Asssessing
Risk Stress Test (RiST) Tool and Resilience Rating System (RRS)
Diagnostic tools | Year of publication: Ongoing
The Risk Stress Test (RiST) tool is an Excel-based tool developed to help conduct the stress testing analysis described in the methodological note Integrating Climate Change and Natural Disasters in the Economic Analysis of Projects: A disaster and climate risk stress methodology. The RiST tool has been designed to highlight risks to project outcomes over long time horizons, accounting for risks along three dimensions: Changes in average climate conditions; Impacts from natural disasters, with current frequency and intensity; Changes in the frequency of natural disasters due to changes in average climate conditions.
Climate and Disaster Risk Screening Tools
Diagnostic tools | Year of publication: Ongoing
Climate and Disaster Risk Screening is a process for identifying short and long term climate and disaster risks to build resilience in development projects, policies, and programs. Identifying risks and proactively incorporating resilience measures – at an early stage of project design – can help projects achieve their development objectives. The Climate and Disaster Risk Screening Tools available on this website, can be used by development practitioners for high-level screening at an early stage of project design or in national level planning processes.
Adaptation & Resilience Solutions: Designing & Implementing
Global Methane Reduction Platform For Development (CH4D)
Community of practice | Year of publication: Since 2024
The Global Methane Reduction Platform for Development (CH4D) was launched at COP28 as the World Bank's hub for accelerating methane action in the high-emitter sectors of agri-food, waste and sanitation.
Adaptation & Resilience Solutions: Learning from Implementation
Rising to the Challenge: Success Stories and Strategies for Achieving Climate Adaptation and Resilience
Report | Year of publication: 2024
About 1.2 billion people are at high risk from climate-related hazards, but much can be done to make people, business, communities, and countries more resilient. The new World Bank flagship report “Rising to the Challenge” argues that reducing climate and disaster impacts requires a combination of more rapid development, more resilient development, and targeted adaptation interventions.
Mobilizing Finance
State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2026
Report | Year of publication: 2026
The World Bank’s annual State and Trends of Carbon Pricing report provides an up-to-date overview of existing and emerging carbon pricing instruments around the world, including international, national, and subnational initiatives. It focuses on identifying key developments relating to all forms of direct carbon pricing – emissions trading systems, carbon taxes, and carbon crediting mechanisms.
State & Trends of Carbon pricing Dashboard
Data | Year of publication: Ongoing
The State and Trends of Carbon Pricing Dashboard is an interactive online tool aimed at policymakers, businesses, and researchers. It provides the latest available information on existing and emerging direct carbon pricing initiatives – Emissions Trading Systems, Carbon Taxes and Carbon Crediting - around the world and includes data published in the World Bank’s State and Trends of Carbon Pricing report.
Building the Market for Resilience: A New Opportunity for Financial Institutions
Blog | Year of publication: 2026
As businesses adapt to a changing climate, markets for resilience solutions are projected to grow by up to 15% annually. private companies are already investing in resilience to protect assets, maintain productivity, and secure competitiveness. As governments adopt clearer resilience policies and incentives, financial institutions are uniquely positioned to significantly scale these efforts—turning climate resilience into a new class of investable opportunity.
IFC Climate Business
Website | Year of publication: Various
Emerging economies need nearly $3 trillion annually by 2030 to adapt to the changing climate. The International Finance Corporation FC is focusing on solutions that meet countries where they are and help them realize their development goals. Doing development the right way — smart, high quality, and fiscally responsible — means building resilience into everything.
PMI Knowledge Center on Carbon Markets
Knowledge base | Year of publication: Various
The Partnership for Market Implementation Knowledge Center offers an interactive, comprehensive knowledge base on Emission Trading Systems, Carbon Taxes and Carbon Credit Markets, refelcting on the challenges and opportunities countries encounter while preparing for, designing and implementing carbon markets.
Outcomes
WBG Corporate Scorecard on Green and Blue Planet and Resilient Populations
Data | Year of publication: Ongoing
No country today is immune from the impacts of climate change, pollution, and declines in biodiversity, which can hold back local development and exacerbate poverty. The World Bank Group Scorecard focuses on accountability and impact, while consolidating reporting from key WBG institutions under a unified set of indicators. It helps refine country strategies, communicate results more effectively, enhance transparency, manage efforts better, and identify gaps.
Atlas Global Development 2026: Climate
Data | Year of publication: 2026
Extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, storms, and heatwaves are more frequent and stronger due to climate change. They impact more than half the world’s population, almost one-third of whom are in highly vulnerable conditions and must adapt to a changing climate. The SDG (Sustainable Development Goal) Atlas is a publication by the World Bank that uses interactive storytelling and data visualizations to illustrate progress, trends, and challenges related to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in 2015