Rob Van Den Berg is the  Director of the Global Environment Facility Evaluation Office (GEFEO).

Berlin-based renewable energy policy expert and former program officer at the Global Environment Facility,Christine Wörlen has detailed out clear guidelines to help those evaluating climate mitigation interventions at local, national, sectoral or global levels.

In 2010, India's Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) set a target to develop 20,000 MW of solar energy by 2022.

Gianleo Frisari is a fellow at Climate Policy Initiative, an organization that analyzes the effectiveness of the most important energy and land use policies around the world.

A new report from the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank, ?developing countries are not yet well adapted even to current climate risk

The Amazon is the world?s largest rainforest, but protecting it from illegal deforestation is a challenge nearly as immense as the forest itself. In a previous study, CPI has discussed explanations for a slowdown in the rate of forest clearings observed in the 2000s.

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Democracy is what it is today thanks to free speech. And if free speech is good for democracy, it is also good for the advancement of the cause of evaluation of climate change and development and evaluation at large.

The Director of the Global Environment Facility Evaluation Office (GEFEO), Rob Van Den Berg has told an audience that negative evidence emanating from evaluations is vital to tackling global problems afresh.

LoCAL is the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility. It is a United Nations facility for investment in local level climate resilience.

At various levels of Governments in the world, policy makers and those in decision-making positions are recieving evaluation reports regularly. While the methodology, conclusions and recommendations of some of the studies are clear and straight to the point, it is not the case for others.