The UNEP Frontiers 2016 edition presents six emerging issues. It highlights, for example, that the global significance of the financial sector should not confine itself only to enhancing global economic growth, but also to advancing environmental sustainability. The financial sector has a crucial role to play in investing in new low-carbon, resource efficient and environmentally sound assets, and shifting capital away from traditional assets that have high impacts on the environment. The report presents a number of emerging financial initiatives led by the financial sector as innovative solutions to sustainability challenges.

• Chapter 1. The Financial Sector: A Linchpin to Advance Sustainable Development - https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/36613

• Chapter 2. Zoonoses: Blurred Lines of Emergent Disease and Ecosystem Health - https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/36614

• Chapter 3. Microplastics: Trouble in the Food Chain - https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/36615

• Chapter 4. Loss and Damage: Unavoidable Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystems - https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/36616

• Chapter 5. Poisoned Chalice: Toxin Accumulation in Crops in the Era of Climate Change - https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/36617

• Chapter 6. The Latest Frontier: Exotic Consumerism: Illegal Trade in Live Animals - https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/36618