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This report examines disruptive innovations and their implications for the design of a green and inclusive financial system – innovations driven by top-down, centralised...

Finance is the means by which we channel accumulated wealth into productive new activities to generate more real wealth and wellbeing.

In 2014, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) initiated the Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System. The Inquiry is intended to accelerate the...

This report has been written by: Ms. Rita Roy Choudhury, Senior Director and Head, Environment, Climate Change, Renewable Energy and Water Division (FICCI), Ms. Priyanka...

While US financial institutions have at times enjoyed a reputation of being something of a laggard on sustainability issues versus their European counterparts, significant...

In 2014 the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) pub¬lished its first global Adaptation Gap Report (AGR 2014) (UNEP, 2014), which put forward a preliminary framework for...

In 2014 the Research Bureau of the People’s Bank of China convened a Green Finance Task Force made up of 40 experts from ministries, financial regulators, academics, banks and...

This working paper results from a workshop the UNEP Inquiry and CIGI held on 2-3 December 2014 in Waterloo, Canada to discuss options for a sustainable global financial system....

This report presents a stock-take of actions under way at the European Union level and in selected Member States to align the rules governing the financial system with...

Equity markets, make up roughly one-fourth of global financial assets. In Europe, the domestic market capitalization of listed equities was nearly $10 trillion in 2014. Market-...

In 2014 the Research Bureau of the People’s Bank of China convened a Green Finance Task Force made up of 40 experts from ministries, financial regulators, academics, banks and...

In 2014 the Research Bureau of the People’s Bank of China convened a Green Finance Task Force made up of 40 experts from ministries, financial regulators, academics, banks and...

The financial system should play an important role in promoting the green transformation of our economies

Financing remains one of the greatest challenges in advancing sustainable development. Hundreds of trillions of dollars need to be invested over the coming decades to drive...

Over 200 years ago, Adam Smith put forward the notion that individuals seeking to benefit themselves through trade were led as if by an invisible hand to a situation in which...

Stock exchanges have historically played an important role in economic growth and development through enabling effective capital allocation. However, exchanges and markets more...

On 3 November 2014 Ethical Markets Media and the UNEP Inquiry convened an expert seminar in New York, bringing together securities market experts and traders to examine how the...

Central banks have wide ranging effects on the economy and society as a whole. Their decisions on monetary policy and sustainability are closely intertwined but the links...

Adequate, appropriate finance is crucial for Africa’s sustainable development. Its availability depends on African countries developing financial systems that can effectively...

In 2014 the Research Bureau of the People’s Bank of China convened a Green Finance Task Force made up of 40 experts from ministries, financial regulators, academics, banks and...