Browsing Knowledge Repository by Subject "INVESTMENTS"
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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 ... -
G20 Energy Efficiency Finance and Investment: 2019 Stocktake Report
(2019)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 financial institutions, G20 policymakers and ... -
Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2014
(2014)The latest edition of this annual report outlines the latest developments, signs and signals in the financing of renewable power and fuels. Full of statistics, charts and narrative, it explores the issues affecting each ... -
Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2016
(2016)Renewable energy set new records in 2015 for dollar investment, the amount of new capacity added and the relative importance of developing countries in that growth. All this happened in a year in which prices of fossil ... -
Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2017
(2017)Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2017, published on April 6th by UN Environment, the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, finds that all investments in renewables totalled ... -
Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2020
(2020)This report analyzes 2019 investment trends, and clean energy commitments made by countries and corporations for the next decade. It finds commitments equivalent to 826 GW of new non-hydro renewable power capacity, at a ... -
Green economic recovery: Mobilizing investments towards a low-emission, climate-resilient economy in Latin America and the Caribbean (Coming Soon)
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2024-04)The project "Green Economic Recovery: Mobilizing investments towards a low-emission and climate-resilient economy in Latin America and the Caribbean" aimed to support selected LAC countries (Argentina, Costa Rica, ... -
Green Economy Scoping Study: Saint Lucia
(2016)This study identifies key challenges, opportunities, benefits and imperative investments as well as the enabling conditions necessary to facilitate the greening of important economic activities in Saint Lucia. For the ... -
Green Economy Scoping Study: Serbia
(2013)This scoping study provides an overview and starting point for Serbia’s transition to a green economy. It presents a macro-economic profile of the country, a sector-specific review, economic modelling and potential ... -
Green Finance Opportunities in ASEAN
(2017)This report lays out ways in which the ASEAN region can unlock this investment and protect its people, environment and economies. It provides an analysis of green investment opportunities in the region from 2016 to 2030, ... -
Greening Economies in the EU Eastern Partnership countries: Ukraine – Recent and Planned Activities
(2015)The “Greening Economies in the European Union’s Eastern Neighbourhood” (EaP GREEN) programme supports the six the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to move towards green economy by decoupling economic growth from ... -
How Lebanon is switching to a circular economy
(2023-11)Lebanon’s NAP process began with a thorough assessment of the state of SCP in the country, and a review of existing policies and actions in the industrial sector. A plan was developed for cleaner production in Lebanese ... -
Hundreds of Millions of Hectares, Nearly the Size of Brazil, Face Degradation Threat – UN Report Warns
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Investing in Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure - Principles for Recovery
(2020)Investments in sustainable infrastructure will be key for building more resilient societies after the COVID-19 pandemic while also creating millions of jobs. These 10 principles provide a framework for decision-making on ... -
Investor Duties and ESG Integration in China
(2018)As a step towards implementing Fiduciary Duty in the 21st Century’s recommendations, this report sets out recommendations based on five priority themes: policy framework and sustainable guidance; regulation on ESG integration ... -
An Investors’ Perspective on Environmental Metrics for Property
(2011)It is generally accepted that meaningful property metrics are central to the fight against carbon emissions. Without them, property investors and government policy makers can neither under stand the current environmental ... -
Is the COVID-19 Economic Recovery Building a Sustainable Future?: A Snapshot from Latin America and the Caribbean
(2021)The region of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has faced some of the worst health and economic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. Amid economic and social disruption, inequality in the world’s most unequal continent ...