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Creating a Sustainable Financial System: a role for Finance Ministries
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)
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. Finance ministries typically interact with ...
UNEP Inquiry Pre Launch Flier
(2015)
Achieving sustainable development requires investment in an inclusive, green economy. Today, mismatches between what is financed and what needs financing contributes to continued environ¬mental deterioration of natural ...
The state of sustainable finance in the United States
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2016)
While US financial institutions have at times enjoyed a reputation of being something of a laggard on sustainability issues versus their European counterparts, significant changes and innovations are under way which are ...
Addressing the role of natural resources in conflict and peacebuilding: a summary of progress from UNEP's Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding Programme
(UNEP, 2015)
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the different outputs for each pillar and the results achieved. It also summarizes key lessons, with a future outlook for UNEP in the coming years under the ECP framework. ...
Designing a Sustainable Financial System in Bangladesh: Summary Briefing Flyer
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)
Much of the most creative reform to green the financial system is taking place in countries as diverse as Brazil, China, Indonesia, and South Africa. Leadership from the less developed countries is, for understandable ...
Human rights and sustainable finance: exploring the relationship
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2016)
In November 2014, the UNEP Inquiry on the Design of a Sustainable Financial System asked the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) to co-produce a paper on the relationship between a sustainable financial system ...
Raising the Bar - Advancing Environmental Disclosure in Sustainability Reporting
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)
This global cross-sector report assesses the environmental dimension of sustainability reporting and provides recommendations to make environmental reporting relevant to all stakeholders. It analyses what the key and most ...
Aligning the Financial System with Sustainable Development;the Coming Financial Climate Flyer
(2015)
Financing sustainable development is the ultimate purpose of the financial system
The First Global Integrated Marine Assessment: World Ocean Assessment I
(2016)
The first World Ocean Assessment provides an important scientific basis for the consideration of ocean issues by Governments, intergovernmental processes, and all policy-makers and others involved in ocean affairs. The ...
Towards a Sustainable Financial System in Indonesia
(2015)
Placing Indonesia’s economy onto a green and sustainable development pathway, as envisaged in the National Long Term Development Plan, will require a large mobilization of investment. Estimates of the annual investment ...