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8 February 2021 to 10 February 2021

Conference on Strengthening Environmental, Social, and Governance Investment Under the COVID-19 Crisis

On 8-10 February 2021 at 07:00-10:00am (CET) Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) is hosting the 'Conference on Strengthening Environmental, Social, and Governance Investment Under the COVID-19 Crisis' online.
April 2004

Application of Environmental Accounting on Subsoil Assets: The Case Study for the Czech Republic

This case study discusses different methods of accounting for subsoil assets in the Czech Republic. The paper implements three different accounting methods.
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
January 2017

Ecosystem Service Valuation and Ecosystem Asset Account in Japan

Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (PRIMAFF)
This paper introduces Japan’s initiative of valuing ecosystem services and incorporates it into the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting - Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EEA). Specifically, it evaluates ecological stocks (i.e. forest and wetland) and ecosystem services from them based on economic valuations and develops an accounting system to record these values.
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.
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.

System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA)

United Nations (UN)

The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) is a framework that integrates economic and environmental data to provide a more comprehensive and multipurpose view of the interrelationships between the economy and the environment and the stocks and chang

24 November 2017

Research highlights from the Fifth GGKP Annual Conference - The Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) tool

Oshani Perera
The Sustainable Asset Valuation Facility can identify and price the broader co-benefits that sustainable infrastructure brings to a domestic economy, including enhanced GDP, avoided spending on pollution clean-up and public health services, job creation, opportunities to up-skill and more.
June 2020

Accelerating Corporate Climate Action: The role of policy

Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
CDP has analyzed climate-related information disclosed by some of the world’s biggest companies, and, based on these insights, provided recommendations to policymakers, financial regulators and supervisors on what actions to take to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy.
May 2017

Investment Governance and the Integration of Environmental, Social and Governance Factors

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
This paper, Investment Governance and the Integration of Environmental, Social and Governance Factors, examines how pension funds, insurance companies and asset managers approach environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities in their portfolio investments.

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