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Values Based Banking: Bringing the Voice of the Citizen into Finance
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)
Today’s financial system is in many ways too large, too complex, and too removed from the real economy. It has become focused on short--‐term profit maximisation, it does not pay enough attention to social and environmental ...
Sourcebook of Opportunities for Enhancing Cooperation among the Biodiversity Related Conventions at National and Regional Levels
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)
The Sourcebook focuses on what can be achieved through cooperation among those implementing the Biodiversity-related Conventions at national and regional levels. It provides practical examples, checklists, lessons learnt ...
The Value of Everything
(, 2015)
Discussions regarding the global financial system often happen without a complete and robust understanding of the total value, impact and relevance of all stocks and flows. Indeed, even the “Value of Everything” is not ...
New Rules for New Horizons: Report of the High Level Symposium on Reshaping Finance for Sustainability
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)
Finance is the means by which we channel accumulated wealth into productive new activities to generate more real wealth and wellbeing.
The Financial System We Need: Aligning the Financial System with Sustainable Development
(2015)
The global report of the UNEP Inquiry argues that there is now a historic opportunity to shape a financial system that can more effectively finance the development of an inclusive, green economy. This opportunity is based ...
Towards a Theory of Sustainable Finance
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)
Recent years have displayed a growing discontent in society regarding the functioning of financial agents and markets. This is leading to an emerging consensus that the financial system is in need of reform. The crisis of ...
Aligning Kenya’s Financial System with Inclusive Green Investment
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)
This summary paper explores the state of green investment in Kenya, and the role of the financial sector and potential financial policy innovations that could increase the flow of domestic green investment. This paper is ...
Insurance 2030: Harnessing Insurance for Sustainable Development
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)
This report presents a suite of options that could strengthen the alignment between the insurance industry and sustainable development through to 2030. Insurance firms and regulators have identified a set of interlocking ...
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 ...