Browsing Knowledge Repository by Subject "INVESTMENTS"
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Aligning the Financial System with Sustainable Development in the United States of America . Inquiry Working Paper 16/100
(2016-01)This working paper identifies the implications of time for investment in sustainability for both the public and the private sectors. It also explores the issue of the interplay between public benefits and investment decisions ... -
Are We Building Back Better? Evidence from 2020 and Pathways to Inclusive Green Recovery Spending
(2021)This report presents early data outputs from the Observatory to understand COVID-19 fiscal spending priorities in 2020 and which environmentally and economically desirable policies are facing underinvestment. It explores ... -
Are We Building Back Better? Evidence from 2020 and Pathways to Inclusive Green Recovery Spending - Summary for Policymakers
(2021)This report presents early data outputs from the Observatory to understand COVID-19 fiscal spending priorities in 2020 and which environmentally and economically desirable policies are facing underinvestment. It explores ... -
Assessing the Impact of Green Economy Investments in Belarus: A Sectoral Study into Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
(2016)This study identifies and assesses key sectors for green transition and impacts of green investments in support of Belarus’ transition towards a green economy. The Government of Belarus (GoB) has actively sought the ... -
Bilateral Finance Institutions and Climate Change: A Mapping of 2009 Climate Financial Flows to Developing Countries
(2010)The present report is an effort by the UNEP Climate Change Working Group for Bilateral Finance Institutions (‘Working Group’ – see p. iii) to both transparently disclose their part of the present story of climate change ... -
The Brazilian Financial System and the Green Economy: Alignment with Sustainable Development - First Edition September 2014
(2014)The goal of this present document is to identify in the Brazilian scenario relevant aspects for the Inquiry purpose, based on three complementary studies: current resource allocation in the ‘Green Economy’, the country ... -
Changing Course: A Comprehensive Investor Guide to Scenario-Based Methods for Climate Risk Assessment, in Response to the TCFD
(2019)This report details the results of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Investor Pilot on TCFD Adoption, a collaborative effort to explore,enhance and apply a methodology for assessing the impact of ... -
Demystifying Responsible Investment Performance: A Review of Key Academic and Broker Research on ESG Factors - A joint report by The Asset Management Working Group of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and Mercer
(2007)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 thematic studies which bolster the materiality ... -
The Economic and Investment Plan and the Green Agenda for the Western Balkans: Latest Developments
(2022-11)Presentations of the Western Balkans forum held in Vienna on 17 - 18 November 2022 -
End Plastic Pollution: A Knowledge Compendium for Less Plastic Waste in South-East Asia
(2022-12)This knowledge compendium has been developed to serve as a useful reference compiling all the publications that SEA circular and its partners have released as at December 2021. The compendium supports the project’s objective ... -
Environment and Trade Hub: Frequently Asked Questions
(2018)Trade is a vital part of the global economy and interlinks with the environment at many levels. Trade liberalization impacts the environment, in negative or positive ways. The challenge is to augment positive environmental ... -
Environmental Policy Toolkit for Greening SMEs in the EU Eastern Partnership Countries - Pre-publication of the Second Edition
(2016)The objective of this Environmental Policy Toolkit for SME Greening is to help governments in the European Union’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) to design ... -
Equitable, Net Zero & Nature Positive Finance: Accelerating Private Investment in Sustainable Land Use - UNEP Climate Finance Unit
(2023-05)The ways through which commodities like soy, beef, palm oil and many others are produced, processed and financed, sit at the heart of the myriad crises that humanity faces. The current business-as-usual model is a ‘race ... -
ESG data in China: Recommendations for Primary ESG Indicators
(2019)This report aims to provide recommendations for China’s future, mandatory environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure framework, prepared by its fnancial regulators. These recommendations, supported by discussions ... -
Executive Summary: State of Finance for Nature 2022 - Time to Act: Doubling Investment by 2025 and Eliminating Nature-negative Finance Flows
(2022-12)This second edition of the State of Finance for Nature (SFN) 2022 report i) expands analysis of capital flows to include marine nature-based solutions; ii) estimates the investment in NbS needed to limit climate change ... -
Fiduciary Duty in the 21st Century – Final Report
(2019)This report describes how the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment practice and decision making is an increasingly standard part of the regulatory and legal requirements for ... -
Financing Climate Futures: Rethinking Infrastructure: Shifting the Lens - Interim Briefing
(2018)Shifting the Lens examines the critical uncertainties that influence the selection, design, procurement, deployment and related financing decisions for climate-compatible infrastructure. Seven areas of critical uncertainties ... -
Framework for Scaling up Investments in Priority Health and Environment Interventions - Third Inter-Ministerial Conference on Health and Environment in Africa
(2018)It is well established that socioeconomic development processes often result in alterations of ecosystems with significant consequences on human health. The health and environment sectors are often left to mitigate such ...