Browsing Reports, Books and Booklets by Subject "FINANCE"
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2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Aligning Financial System Architecture and Innovation with Sustainable Development
Finance is a keystone to the successful implementation of the Agenda 2030 but significant barriers exist to securing adequate public and private financing to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. A broader strategy ... -
Accelerating Financial Centre Action on Sustainable Development: How International Cooperation Can Scale up Green and Sustainable Finance
(2017)Mobilizing the world’s financial centres is essential to make progress on climate change and sustainable development. The momentum towards a sustainable financial system is clear: integrating environmental, social and ... -
Action Plan for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, 2021-2030 Version April 2023
This action plan sets out the next steps to collectively work towards the goals and vision of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Moving from strategy to action, this plan aims to allow UN Decade partners to mobilise ... -
Annex: SFN 2022 Data and Methodology - State of Finance for Nature 2022
(2022)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 to ... -
Background Report for a UNEP Guide to Life Cycle Management: A Bridge to Sustainable Products
(2006)The aim of this document is to present background information for a more popular introductory guide to LCM which will be produced in the coming months and is – together with an accompanied slide show - intended to be used ... -
Banking and Sustainability Time for Convergence: A Policy Briefing on the Links Between Financial Stability and Environmental Sustainability
(2015)In 2014, the UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL, working with and on behalf of the Banking Environment Initiative – BEI) commissioned a study ... -
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 ... -
Capitalizing Sustainable Finance in Argentina: A Stocktake and Review of Sustainable Finance Opportunities for Argentina
(2018)The report provides a comprehensive analysis of sustainable investment opportunities in Argentina between 2019 and 2030, assesses the characteristics of those opportunities, and estimates current flows of sustainable ... -
Caribbean Regional Consultation Meeting on Integrated Financing and Governance Workshop Report - Principles and Approaches for Integrated Financing
(2024-04)This is a Workshop Report on the Caribbean Regional Consultation Meeting on Integrated Financing and Governance organised by UNEP in partnership with the Cartagena Convention Secretariat and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) ... -
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 ... -
Climate Action: Assisting Business Towards Carbon Neutrality - Special Focus on Africa and Sustainable Cities
(2011)Negotiations on how over 190 countries can move forward on climate change come to Durban, South Africa, amid concerns that the gap between scientific reality and political ambition remains firmly in place and may be widening. ... -
Collaborative Initiative for Green Finance in Singapore: Singapore as a Green Finance Hub for ASEAN and Asia
(2017)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 Finance as additional expertise to better serve ... -
Definitions and Concepts: Background Note. Inquiry Working Paper 16/13
(2016-09)This paper provides an initial mapping of existing practice in G20 and other countries and, where relevant internationally, highlights areas of convergence and difference, as well as distinctions between green, climate, ... -
Delivering the Green Economy Through Financial Policy: Technical Paper
(2014)The paper aims to provide a solid overview of the current status quo and to serve as a basis for discussion among regulators, financers and political decision makers on whether financial regulation should be used as an ... -
Demystifying Materiality: Hardwiring Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services into Finance - CEO Briefing October 2020
(2010)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 and the TEEB reports, combined with our own ... -
Digital Technologies for Mobilizing Sustainable Finance: Applications of Digital Technologies to Sustainable Finance
(2018)This report describes the relevance of digital finance within the context of sustainable finance, the consequential G20 role, and the SDGs. It provides a framework to highlight practices across G20 members and the private ... -
Driving Finance Today for the Climate Resilient Society of Tomorrow
(2019)This paper highlights existing barriers and challenges preventing the full integration of climate change risks and opportunities within the financial system writ large, including for its institutions. A “climate-informed” ... -
Economic and Financial Challenges to Scaling Up Sustainable Cocoa Production in Côte d’Ivoire
(2018)Economic and Financial Challenges to Scaling Up Sustainable Cocoa Production in Côte d’Ivoire proposes technical and financial solutions to scaling up sustainable cocoa production models at all levels of the cocoa production ... -
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 ... -
Financing Climate Futures: Rethinking Infrastructure
(2018)This report lays out the agenda for integrating climate considerations into all aspects of our societies and setting up the right incentives to better align financial flows by focussing on key transformational action areas: ...