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August 2014

China's Financial Markets: The Risks and Opportunities of Stranded Assets

Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (SSEE), University of Oxford, Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System (UN Environment Inquiry)
Over the course of the last two decades, the issues surrounding technological innovation, investor behaviour, and business resilience have become magnified in the context of environmental change. This has helped to bring forward the issue of stranded assets as a sustainability concern beyond regulatory action on competition policy. This paper, produced to help inform an International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and UNEP Inquiry collaboration with policymakers in China, examines the risks and opportunities associated with stranded assets, provides five international case studies, and identifies how these issues might be relevant to Chinese policy makers.
June 2020

Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) of Senegal's Saloum Delta

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
This report informs the work of local government, local communities, and civil society organizations in the delta by providing an integrated economic valuation of the ecosystem services and how these services are affected by different development scenarios.

Climate Guide for Asset Owners: Aligning Investment Portfolios with the Paris Agreement

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

With this Climate Guide to Asset Owners, WWF tries to support asset owners and show how they can align their investments with the objectives set in the Paris Climate Change Agreement (‘Paris Agreement’).

January 2016

Conservation Finance From Niche to Mainstream: The Building of an institutional asset class

The Rockefeller Foundation
This report Conservation Finance From Niche to Mainstream: The Building of an institutional asset class is targeted at mainstream investors who are interested in learning more about investment structures that provide a market-rate return and a positive conservation impact.
31 January 2017
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19 Leading Banks & Investors Totaling $6.6 Trillion In Assets Launch Principles 4 Positive Impact Finance

19 leading global banks and investors totaling $6.6 trillion in assets, launched the Principles for Positive Impact Finance at an event in Paris.
October 2017

Dead on Arrival?: Implicit Stranded Assets in Leading IAM Scenarios

Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (SSEE), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), GGKP Annual Conference
While it is acknowledged that asset stranding could jeopardize the political feasibility of climate policies, the amount of stranded assets is rarely made explicit in most decarbonization pathways. This paper introduces a novel method that extracts, for every given energy sector transition scenario, the implicit amount of new power generation capacity that is added every year, and the required amount of stranding if this scenario is to be in line with its projected generation mix.

Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) Tool: Helping Governments and Investors See the Value of Sustainable Infrastructure

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

IISD has developed a Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) tool to help governments and investors assess the true costs–and risks–associated with infrastructure projects in order to make better decisions.

September 2017

Defining and Scoping Municipal Natural Assets

Municipal Natural Assets Initiative (MNAI), Smart Prosperity Institute (SPI)
The report Defining and Scoping Municipal Natural Assets proposes a new definition for Municipal Natural Assets and outlines the scope of the Municipal Natural Asset Management (MNAM) approach.
April 2020

Sustainable Investment: Best practice disclosure checklist for pension funds

The World Bank
This report provides a checklist that has been developed to provide a comprehensive list of the disclosures that asset owners’ stakeholders are likely to be interested in to adopt sustainable investment.
June 2015

Central Banks Can and Should Do Their Part in Funding Sustainability

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System (UN Environment Inquiry)

During the 2008 financial crisis, central banks deployed unconventional means to rescue failing banks and insulate economies from depression.

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