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REDDy Set Grow Part 1 - A Briefing for Financial Institutions:...
Part 1 of this study provides a briefing to the financial world on current and emerging avenues for business activity in forest-carbon, and highlights roles and barriers for... -
G20 Energy Efficiency Finance and Investment: 2019 Stocktake Report
The G20 Global Summit on Financing Energy Efficiency, Innovation and Clean Technology was held on June 12th, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan. It gathered over 140 senior executives of... -
Mobilizing Sustainable Finance for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises:...
This report takes stock of existing activities in G7 countries, identifies a range of emerging lessons and suggests possible next steps for action by G7 countries. This report... -
Financial Centres for Sustainability: Reviewing G7 Financial Centres in...
This report takes stock of the sustainability agenda that is emerging for financial centres, reviews current practice across leading centres in G7 countries and suggests... -
Driving Finance Today for the Climate Resilient Society of Tomorrow
This paper highlights existing barriers and challenges preventing the full integration of climate change risks and opportunities within the financial system writ large,... -
Demystifying Responsible Investment Performance: A Review of Key Academic...
This report features a diverse set of academic and broker studies that analyses responsible investment performance at both the company/stock and fund/portfolio level, including... -
Natural Capital Credit Risk Assessment in Agricultural Lending: An Approach...
This report builds on previous work by presenting an in-depth approach to natural capital and credit risk in agriculture. This framework has been developed on the knowledge that... -
Collaborative Initiative for Green Finance in Singapore: Singapore as a...
This Report aims to mainstream and socialise the idea and opportunities associated with Green Finance, as well as to explore how Singapore as a financial hub can offer Green... -
Green SMEs and Access to Finance: The Role of Banking Diversity
SMEs arguably play an even more prominent role in the green economy. Nearly a third of SMEs offer green products or services and four in ten SMEs have at least one full time... -
The Sustainable Insurance Forum: Question Bank on Climate Change Risks to...
This Question Bank is intended to help supervisors develop engagement tools to better understand exposures and strategic responses of regulated entities to climate change risks... -
Nigerian Sustainable Finance Roadmap
The report highlights major barriers such as market failures, information asymmetries, lack of awareness and lack of consideration of non-financial or longer-term value, as well... -
Central Banks can and Should Do their Part in Funding Sustainability -...
consider selecting assets that will promote sustainability, including climate change mitigation and adaptation. During the 2008 financial crisis, central banks deployed... -
Demystifying Materiality: Hardwiring Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services...
This Briefing is intended for forwardlooking financial institutions to operationalise BES in the financial sector. It builds on earlier work by UNEP FI’s Bloom and Bust report3... -
How does the Development of the Financial Industry Advance Renewable Energy?...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether and how the financial industry might have an impact on the development of renewable energy. In order to answer this question, the... -
Environmental Risk Analysis by Financial Institutions – A Review of Global...
This paper presents the findings of this stocktake, which drew on CISL’s ability to cross boundaries between multiple fields of expertise and engage deeply with its global... -
Green Finance for Developing Countries: Needs, Concerns and Innovations
This briefing outlines key concerns and needs of developing countries in relation to green finance, particularly focusing on developing countries that are not members of the... -
Government Subsidies to the Global Financial System: A Preliminary...
The primary goal of the present study is to understand the character and to estimate the total value of subsidies, both direct and implicit, from governments to the private... -
Half Full or Half Empty?: A Set of Indicative Guidelines for Water-Related...
These Guidelines are intended to support FIs in integrating WRR into their risk management processes by developing procedures to identify, assess and mitigate the material and... -
The GHG Indicator: UNEP Guidelines for Calculating Greenhouse Gas Emissions...
The purpose of The GHG Indicator: UNEP Guidelines for Calculating Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Businesses and Non-Commercial Organisations is to assist organisations in this... -
UNEP FI Guide to Banking & Sustainability: Understanding and Implementing...
This guide provides a clause-by-clause explanation of the UNEP Statement of Commitment by Financial Institutions on Sustainable Development, seeking both to shed further light...