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September 2020

Recapitalising Sovereign Debt: Why nature performance bonds are needed now

Finance for Biodiversity Initiative
This publication sets out an approach to link the cost of sovereign debt with success in protecting or enhancing a country’s valued, productive natural capital.
March 2018

Sovereign Green Bonds Briefing

Climate Bonds Initiative
The Sovereign Green Bonds Briefing is the latest in a new series of Climate Bonds publications analyzing contemporary developments in the green bond market. The focus is on sovereigns, new issuers in the green bond space, and their key role in growing local markets and meeting national climate targets.
October 2020

Climate Change and Sovereign Risk

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
The report demonstrates new empirical evidence of how climate risk and resilience influence the costs of capital, informing an increasingly critical conversation around the financial implications of climate change and how countries can prepare for these impacts.
June 2020

Emerging Market Debt Crisis: Biodiversity as a lever for building back better

Finance for Biodiversity Initiative
This technical paper is part of a series looking at climate change and biodiversity considerations in economic responses to COVID-19.
24 May 2018

How Can Sovereign Wealth Funds be Encouraged to Go Green?

Javier Capapé
Environmental investments make up just 1% of the assets of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs). As these public institutional investors have the capacity to deploy enormous capital to green long-term investments, how can they be encouraged to join – and lead – the transition to a low-carbon economy?
October 2015

Creating a Sustainable Financial System: A Role for Finance Ministries

Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System (UN Environment Inquiry)

This paper investigates various roles that finance ministries can assume to promote those policies, regulations and standards which help to create a sustainable financial system.

April 2020

Safety First: Expanding the Global Financial Safety Net in Response to Covid-19

Boston University Global Development Policy Center
The resource, Safety First: Expanding the Global Financial Safety Net in Response to Covid-19, discuss the shortcomings of the current global financial system and develop a set of immediate and intermediate proposals to expand and reform the Global Financial Safety Net (GFSN) that will help both the crisis response as well as the development of a more robust and functional global financial system.
April 2019

Creating Impact: The Promise of Impact Investing

International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Investors’ appetite for impact investing—in which they seek to generate positive impact for society alongside strong financial returns—could total as much as $26 trillion, according to the report Creating Impact: The Promise of Impact Investing.
March 2018

A Report to Government: Accelerating Green Finance

Green Finance Taskforce
The report Accelerating Green Finance suggests that the creation of a new Green Finance Institute will act as a ‘one-stop-shop’ for all work relating to the sector – from international engagement to green fintech, climate and data science.
December 2020

Spatial Finance: Challenges and opportunities in a changing world

World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF), World Bank Group
This report outlines a possible taxonomy and hierarchy for spatial finance, showing how discrete forms of technology, approaches and data can be considered within a single consistent framework. Using this framework, spatial finance could provide insights at differing scales for different applications from the asset-scale for project finance, to company-scale for investment, to country scale for sovereign debt.

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