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September 2020

Resilience and the Circular Economy: Opportunities and risks

Circle Economy
This report provides a structural analysis of the relationship between resilience and the circular economy.
9 June 2014 to 29 June 2014
Online

Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities for the Finance Sector

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

The key areas addressed by this course are: a general introduction to climate change, the science and impacts, and key international and regional policies in place to tackle it i.e.

ENCORE (Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks and Exposure)

Natural Capital Finance Alliance (NCFA), UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), MAVA Foundation, Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)
ENCORE (Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks and Exposure) enables users to visualise how the economy depends on nature and how environmental change creates risks for businesses.
June 2018

Advancing TCFD Guidance on Physical Climate Risks and Opportunities

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Global Centre of Excellence on Climate Adaptation (GCECA)
Early engagement with the disclosure of climate risks and opportunities enables companies to get ahead of forthcoming regulations, particularly in Europe. It allows them to anticipate and respond to investor concerns, and play an active role in shaping the field and establishing the standards that will eventually become the norm. This EBRD-GCECA report, Advancing TCFD Guidance on Physical Climate Risks and Opportunities, aims to inform and support early adoption efforts of this kind, recognising that the field is evolving rapidly and that best practices will emerge over time.
June 2016

Pilot Auction Facility: Opportunities Beyond the Piloting Phase

World Bank Group, Ecofys, Climate Focus
The objective of this report Pilot Auction Facility: Opportunities Beyond the Piloting Phase is to identify opportunities for achieving greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation through the climate finance model developed by the Pilot Auction Facility for Methane and Climate Change Mitigation (PAF).
November 2006

Banking on Sustainability: Financing Environmental and Social Opportunities in Emerging Markets

International Finance Corporation (IFC)

The report shows evidence of the potential benefits of adopting sustainability as a business strategy. It also shows a dramatic shift in banks' awareness of these benefits.

February 2018

Analysis of Risks and Opportunities of Linking Emissions Trading Systems

Umweltbundesamt (German Federal Environment Agency)
This report Analysis of Risks and Opportunities of Linking Emissions Trading Systems summarises the key findings of the project ‘Analysis of Risks and Opportunities of Linking the EU-ETS with other Emissions Trading Systems – further development of criteria and methods’.
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.
October 2019

Ecosystem-based Adaptation and Insurance: Success, Challenges and Opportunities

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
This report provides a review of insurance with regards to an Ecosystem-based Adaptation, and Climate Risk Finance & Insurance (CRFI) approach. Key findings are presented, along with recommendations and next steps for the insurance industry.
November 2017

Enhancing Resilience through Forest Landscape Restoration: Understanding Synergies and Identifying Opportunities

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), UK aid
Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is the long-term process of regaining ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being across deforested or degraded forest landscapes. Enhancing Resilience through Forest Landscape Restoration: Understanding Synergies and Identifying Opportunities is the first in a series of IUCN Discussion Papers focused on FLR that intend to to inform decision-makers, practitioners, and other stakeholders involved in the fields of forestry and resilience of the opportunities for integrating forest landscape restoration with resilience principles, and the synergies therein.

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