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4 January 2021

Undeterred by Pandemic: Four trends in global climate action to watch in the coming decade

Pratima Divgi
The 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement marks a pivotal milestone in environmental disclosure. Across the globe, more and more countries and companies are leveraging the moment to invest in a more resilient and inclusive future. As we embark on a new year, CDP Hong Kong's regional director Pratima Divgi looks back on the challenging year of 2020 and discusses 4 emerging trends in the global sustainability terrain that will shape our market and regulatory environment in the next decade
29 December 2020
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The Biden Administration’s potential impact on climate finance

Baysa Naran, Rob Macquarie, Matthew Solomon, Cooper Wetherbee

In a dramatic change from President Trump’s policies, Biden’s Build Back Better campaign policies are the most expansive U.S. climate plan in history, with a headline figure of $2 trillion in new investment.

24 November 2020

An inclusive digital green economy in the making

Yaxuan Chen
Digital adoption has triggered qualitative changes for a green economy and renewable energy transition. However, for a transformation to happen, policymakers need to strategically address new business models that embrace the development and deployment of digital technologies for data generation, storage, transmission and analysis.
7 October 2020

Insuring Systemic Resilience: Mobilising public-private insurance action to deliver pandemic and climate resilience

Ekhosuehi Iyahen
On 15th July 2020, the Insurance Development Forum (IDF) and Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) jointly hosted a roundtable event, drawing leading voices from across public and private sectors to debate the crucial intersections between climate risk, pandemic risk, financial resilience, and the role of insurance.
6 October 2020

Using the Ocean As a Tool for Global Economic Recovery

Eliza Northrop, Mansi Konar, Nicola Frost, Liz Hollaway
The ocean economy, which contributes upwards of $1.5 trillion in value added to the global economy, was particularly hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, with a projected loss of $1.9 billion for international shipping carriers alone. Coastal communities were hardest hit, with an estimated $7.4 billion fall in GDP across Small Island Developing States due to the decline in tourism.
30 September 2020

The benefits of green digital finance

Marianne Haahr
Based on the findings of a UN task force, now is the time to expand the transformative impact of digitalization in financing the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly by accelerating the use of domestic savings for long-term development, enhancing accountability of public financing, financing SMEs and promoting SDG-aligned consumer spending.
8 September 2020

It’s Time to Invest in Nature-Based Solutions to Solve the Biodiversity and Climate Crises

Margaret O’Gorman

At this summer’s Oxford University Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) Digital Dialogues , a conversation between top scientists in the field took a deeper dive into the opportunities and hazards of NbS to ad

20 August 2020

How digital finance can create a fairer world

Achim Steiner, Maria Ramos

The Spanish Flu of 1918 did not respect borders nor social class.

18 August 2020

Charting a green and just COVID-19 recovery

Rani Pooran, Whitney McWade
While the global coronavirus pandemic has created a global tipping point, upending multiple social systems, governments and the private sector have an opportunity to ensure that a post-COVID transition that is green, and a lower carbon transition that is just.
18 August 2020

The road to sustained recovery in India starts with a definition of green finance

Dhruba Purkayastha, Labanya Prakash Jena
As India recovers from impact of the coronavirus pandemic, it also faces a threat from climate change, which could derail long-term recovery efforts. Climate Policy Initiative provides a roadmap for a comprehensive green finance strategy in India to help ensure a sustainable recovery.

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