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February 2021

Gender & Climate Investment: A strategy for unlocking a sustainable future

GenderSmart
This report aims to support growth of the field of gender-smart climate investment by raising awareness of an integrated gender and climate lens, building the case for mainstreaming gender-smart climate finance, and showcasing the versatility, impact or promise of this approach through examples of direct deals and projects that merge gender and climate objectives
January 2021

Study on sustainability-related ratings, data and research

European Commission (EC)
This study describes the state of play of the sustainability-related products and services market; establishes an inventory and classification of market actors, sustainability products and services available in the market; and analyses the use and quality of sustainability-related products and services by market participants. The study explores how the reliability and quality of assessment of sustainability-related data, ratings and research by third party providers can be enhanced and provides recommendations to stimulate demand and improve the quality of supply.
August 2020

Catalyzing Private Sector Investment in Climate Smart Cities

The World Bank
The objective of this report is to explore innovative financing instruments and approaches for catalyzing private sector financing to fill the climate-smart investment gap in cities.
February 2019

Aligning China’s Development Strategies and Commodity Trade to Achieve a Sustainable Soy Supply Chain

Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
This report explores how China can better align its international cooperation and trade activities to green development policies and reinforce its role as a global environmental leader.
January 2019

Social Impact Investment 2019: The impact imperative for sustainable development

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
This report, Social Impact Investment 2019: The impact imperative for sustainable development , depicts the state-of-play of social impact investment approaches globally and compares regional trends and assesses prospects for future growth with a special focus on data issues and recent policy developments. It provides new guidance for policy-markers and development finance providers to maximise the contribution of impact investing to the 2030 Agenda, the Pris Agreement and the Ababa Action Agenda.
September 2014

Financial System Impact of Disruptive Innovation

Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System (UN Environment Inquiry), New Economics Foundation (NEF)

An efficient and resilient regulatory regime must not only deal competently with the financial system that exists currently; it must also have adaptive capacity to deal competently with the system that is emerging.

12 February 2019
Online

Verra Webinar - Introducing the Sustainable Development Verified Impact Standard

Verra
On 12 February 2019 (5:00PM - 6:00PM CET) Verra is hosting a webinar on "Introducing the Sustainable Development Verified Impact Standard".
April 2017

Financing the Transition: How climate change could impact the financial system

Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System (UN Environment Inquiry)
This Financing the Transition paper presents a fictional Fast Track scenario, suggesting the key features of how a rapid transition to a low-carbon, resilient economy could play out in the financial system in terms of impacts on assets as well as on financial policy.
April 2020

Initial Impact of COVID-19 on European Capital Markets

This report analyses the impact of COVID-19 across all major capital market sectors.
July 2014

Financial Dynamics of the Environment: Risks, Impacts, and Barriers to Resilience

Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System (UN Environment Inquiry), University of Oxford, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (SSEE)

This Working Paper was commissioned by the UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Finance System (“the Inquiry”) to feed into its process of analysis and knowledge dissemination. This Working Paper has attempted to do three things:

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