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Laxmi Aeshwarya Kumar
Paul Smith

This blog was originally published on UNEP FI.

With the World Meteorological Organization confirming July 2023 as the hottest month ever recorded in human history, COP28 later this month in Dubai will be a pivotal moment to respond to the first global stocktake on climate action.

The stocktake serves...

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John Michael LaSalle

Small and intermediary cities are home to most urban residents. In 2020, 58% of low-and middle-income countries’ urban residents lived in cities with fewer than 1 million inhabitants. As the world’s population continues to urbanize, smaller cities will account for much of the urban population growth and often have the...

Marcos Athias Neto

This blog was originally published on Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).

The global wealth is estimated at around US$ 463.6 trillion but most of these resources are not being aligned with sustainable development at the scale and speed necessary to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals...

Steven Stone
Markets are strong and their language is well understood – money does talk. But maybe we need to make people talk and money listen. Takeaway from the 2023 World Circular Economy Forum, hosted by Sitra and other partners, and bringing together thousands of professionals on the topic of circularity – and how to achieve this seemingly distant and yet urgent goal in our economies.
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Laxmi Aeshwarya Kumar
Dennis Fritsch
The sustainable use of the ocean’s resources is gaining attention globally and it is becoming clear that financial institutions need to be able to assess both their impact on the ocean and their exposure to the risk from a degrading marine environment. Both ‘A Legal Framework for Impact’ (LFI) and the Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Initiative advocate for investors to integrate sustainability impact objectives.
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Lauren Knight
Priscilla Negreiros
Subnational governments are key to enabling the environment for adaptation financing. The Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (CCFLA) offered some ideas on how they can do that ahead of COP27. The Policy Brief: How to Increase Financing for Urban Climate Adaptation and Resilience calls for national governments to take 7 key actions.
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Mengwei Sha
China’s green central banking is experimenting at both the national/macro level and municipal/micro level, and a unique invention of the green finance development regime is the establishment of green finance pilot zones. Now, the pilot zones are actively pioneering the climate transition through developing transition finance.
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Marco Arlaud
Simon Nazer
Ahead of COP15 in Montreal, financing the protection and restoration of nature is being highlighted more than ever as a critical solution. Marco Arlaud and Simon Nazer introduce UNDP BIOFIN's evidence-based approach to generating Biodiversity Finance Plans that pull from over 150 biodiversity finance solutions, and provide case studies of its application by several African nations on their path towards a green recovery.
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United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
July 2022 marked one year since the publication of ground-breaking legal analysis that is supporting investors as they advance their practice towards investing for sustainability impact. A Legal Framework for Impact, a report authored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and commissioned by the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), the Generation Foundation and UNEP FI has paved the way for a programme of work which is helping investors engage with policymakers to transform global financial systems.
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Jonathan Wilson
This article explores why the net-zero concept is far from the environmental silver bullet many claim for tackling the crises of climate, biodiversity loss and pollution.