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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.
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.
August 2004

Corporate Environmental Governance: a Study into the Influence of Environmental Governance and Financial Performance

Environment Agency

Based on 15 case studies as well as a literature review, this study assesses the links between corporate environmental governance and financial performance.

May 2017

Analysis of Existing Environmental Policy Databases

Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP)

An enduring concern for developed and developing countries alike is to strike the right balance between ambitious environmental policies and the international competitiveness of both nations and individual firms.

December 2019

Review of GGGI’s Experience to Design and Operationalise National Financing Vehicles (NFVs) to Finance Climate and Green Growth Policy Implementation

Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
In nine countries—Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, India, Jordan, Mongolia, Rwanda, Senegal, and Vanuatu—GGGI has worked on the design, or redesign, and operationalisation of new or existing national financing vehicles (NFVs). This paper reviews GGGI’s experience, considers lessons learned for future NFV projects that GGGI expects to undertake, and shares the organisation’s experience with others active in the climate finance space.
August 2015

Monetary Policy and Sustainability: The Case of Bangladesh

Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System (UN Environment Inquiry), Council on Economic Policies (CEP)

Central banks have wide ranging effects on the economy and society as a whole.

September 2015

Banking and Sustainability Time for Convergence: A Policy Briefing on the Links Between Financial Stability and Environmental Sustainability

Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System (UN Environment Inquiry), University of Cambridge, United Nations Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)

In 2014, the UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL, working with and on behalf of the Banking Environment Initiative – BEI) commissioned a study entitled, “Stability and Sustainability in Banking Reform – Are Environmental

Ethiopia’s Environmental and Social Safeguards Framework (ESSF) for the CRGE Initiative

Organisation: 
Ethiopia Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Country: 
Ethiopia
The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) has prepared the Environmental and Social Safeguards Framework (ESSF) to address environmental and social issues that may arise from any Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) strategy investments. Ethiopia’s Environmental And Social Safeguards Framework (ESSF) For The CRGE Initiative outlines the context for and details of the mechanism.
June 2014

The PSI Global Resilience Project: Building disaster-resilient communities and economies

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), United Nations Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
The UNEP FI Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative (PSI) was launched at the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. This initiative serves as a global framework for the insurance industry to address environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities. 

Climate Finance Tracking and Projection Approach and Methodology in Ethiopia

Organisation: 
Ethiopia Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation (MoFEC)
Country: 
Ethiopia
The Government of Ethiopia has determined to deepen and enhance rapid growth and structural transformation to achieve a lower middle income status by 2025 with net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emission growth trajectory, while simultaneously building the resilience of the economy to climate shocks. Climate Finance Tracking and Projection Approach and Methodology in Ethiopia addresses the need to have a full account of baseline climate financing in order to help to estimate the gap between demand and supply for climate finance.

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