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December 2020

A toolkit for sustainable investment policy and regulation

World Bank Group
This toolkit provides a high-level overview of five foundational sustainable investment policies explaining why each is important, setting out their key features and presenting some examples of such policies in action.
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.
20 November 2017 to 22 November 2017

Berlin, Germany

Face-to-face

Environmental Fiscal Reform for the Energy Sector

Renewable Energy Academy (RENAC), Green Budget Germany (GBG)
This training gives participants in-depth knowledge of economic and fiscal policies which can improve framework conditions for renewable energy investment while raising additional revenues for governments. Participants will learn how to design policies that take the concerns of multiple stakeholders into account and mitigate the impacts of energy price rises on the vulnerable.
March 2011

Universal Ownership: Why environmental externalities matter to institutional investors

United Nations Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
The report, Universal Ownership – Why environmental externalities matter to institutional investors, found that, large institutional investors are, in effect, “Universal Owners”, as they often have highly-diversified and long-term portfolios that are representative of global capital markets.
February 2014

Green Growth, Sierra Leone: Investing in Environmentally Sound Economic Growth

African Development Bank (AfDB)

This booklet summarizes the green investment opportunities within Sierra Leone’s recently launched 2013-2018 Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, known as the Agenda for Prosperity.  A number of the Agenda’s planned green interventions are currently unfunded: the overall cost of implementin

September 2020

Sustainable Ocean for All : Harnessing the benefits of sustainable ocean economies for developing countries

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
This report provides a baseline of evidence and numerous positive examples to build a more coherent and effective approach to sustainable ocean management and effective development co-operation in its support to allow developing countries to harness the benefits from sustainable ocean economies.
29 April 2020

Shaping Indonesia’s environmental funding landscape

Tiza Mafira, Brurce Muhammad Mecca
Tasked with managing funds related to environmental protection and conservation, Indonesia’s Environmental Fund Management Agency provides a unique financing mechanism to help meet the country’s climate goals.
November 2013

China’s Green Long March: a Synthesis Report: a Study of Renewable Energy, Environmental Industry and Cement Sectors

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection

This report confirms that the country is a global leader in renewable energy technology investment. In 2012, alone, China’s renewable energy investment totalled US$ 67.7 billion – the highest in the world – and double the amount it invested in 2009.

September 2020

ESG Investing: Environmental pillar scoring and reporting

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
The report examines whether E scoring and reporting effectively serve markets and investors that are using ESG investing in part as a tool to make portfolios more resilient to physical and climate transition risks.

International Guidebook of Environmental Finance Tools

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

The International Guidebook of Environmental Finance Tools provides guidance on developing and implementing the most commonly used, widely applicable, and potentially high-impact environmental finance tools.

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