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Designing a Sustainable Financial System in Bangladesh: Summary Briefing

Organisation: 
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System (UN Environment Inquiry)
Country: 
Bangladesh

Innovations in policies, regulations and norms to shape a greener and more inclusive financial system are emerging in many places, but particularly in developing and emerging economies.

November 2016

Getting the Institutions Right: Designing the public sector to promote clean innovation

Canadian Public Policy (University of Toronto Press)

This paper discusses the need for a Canadian clean innovation policy agenda to focus on organizational and institutional innovations within the public sector. The paper provides an introduction to innovation policy and how innovation can be directed to promote environmental sustainability.

November 2020

P.ACT: Partnership Co-Design Toolkit

MIT D-LaB, SEED
The "Partnership Co-design Toolkit (P.ACT)", the result of a collaboration between MIT D-Lab and SEED through a year-long joint learning lab, seeks to tackle this challenge and offers a disciplined, inclusive, and practical approach to co-creating better value chain partnerships.

Design of a Sustainable Financial System: Swiss Team Input into the UNEP Inquiry

Organisation: 
Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System (UN Environment Inquiry)
Country: 
Switzerland

The UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System identifies financing as one of the greatest challenges in advancing sustainable development. Switzerland is strongly committed to environmental issues.

May 2017

Climate Technology Program Brief: Connecting Green Technology Entrepreneurs - Implications for Public Program Design

infoDev, World Bank Group
What is the role that connections can play in helping green technology entrepreneurs innovate and scale up in developing countries, so as to inform the design of new public sector programs? The Climate Technology Program Brief: Connecting Green Technology Entrepreneurs - Implications for Public Program Design tries to answer this question.

Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology

The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (IEST) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) is one of the largest interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability oriented research institutes in Spain.

Green Lending: A Practitioner's Guide for Financial Institutions

Global Climate Partnership Fund (GCPF)
How does green lending work? How can it be implemented within your institution? The Global Climate Partnership Fund (GCPF) practitioner’s guide to green lending is designed to answer these questions.
August 2010

The Bioeconomy to 2030: Designing a Policy Agenda

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

The biological sciences are adding value to a host of products and services, producing what some have labelled the “bioeconomy”.

October 2020

Resilient Water Infrastructure Design Brief

World Bank Group
The purpose of the Resilient Water Infrastructure Design Brief is to guide users on how resilience can be built into the engineering design of their project. With a focus on the three natural hazards most likely to affect water and sanitation infrastructure (droughts, floods, and high winds from storms), the document provides a six-step process to help users address weather and climate related challenges that are most likely to affect an infrastructure component at some point in its operational lifetime.

Global Forest Watch: Forest Monitoring Designed for Action

Global Forest Watch (GFW) by the World Resources Institute (WRI) offers the latest data, technology and tools that empower people and policymakers to better protect forests.

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