In this paper, Innovative Green-Technology SMEs as an Opportunity to Promote Financial De-Risking, the authors recommend that the G20 target innovative green-technology SMEs as an opportunity to promote financial de-risking while addressing Paris Agreement commitments and UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The aim of the course is to develop participants’ skills in preparing proposals for low carbon climate resilient development in areas such as clean energy access, energy efficiency and adaptation to climate change so that they can mobilise climate finance, particularly from the Green Climate Fund (GCF), and catalyse the deployment of climate change solutions in developing countries.
The transition to a low carbon economy is a capital-intensive process requiring large scale finance combined with suitable low-carbon investment projects. There is no shortage of capital available globally – the financial sector encompasses more than EUR 100 trillion of assets globally – but several factors inhibit the expansion of private finance in low-carbon investment.
This paper aims to describe in more detail progress in both public and private natural capital accounting, and explore potential synergies and gaps between them.
This paper Scaling up Rooftop Solar Power in India: The Potential of Solar Municipal Bonds proposes the use of municipal bonds to support the scale-up of rooftop solar in India, and details how such bonds could be designed and implemented.
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) offers both opportunities and risks for investors, for sustainable development, and for natural resources. Financial institutions have a key role to play to ensure that its programmes and projects are delivered in ways that invest in and enhance natural capital and ensure a net gain for the environment. This report provides recommendations to the finance sector in three main areas: (i) Integrating sustainability in infrastructure decisionmaking; (ii) Demonstrating the sustainable business opportunity; and (iii) Scaling up sustainable infrastructure.