The IMF Spring Meetings last week was a red-letter week in progressing The Financial System We Need. Yes, it was a week when the UNEP Inquiry’s core messages went mainstream in style.
It was the week when Hank Paulson, ex-head of US Treasury with Governor of China’s Central Bank, Zhou Xiaochuan, got together at an event co-hosted by the UNEP Inquiry and the Paulson Institute and declared to an assembly of financial market heavyweights that green finance is critical to our collective futures and core to the development of tomorrow’s financial system.
An India Advisory Council of the UNEP India Inquiry was convened by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). This report, Delivering a Sustainable Financial System in India highlights key proposals emerging from their discussions for aligning the Indian financial system with sustainability.
In the Indian context, they call for the development of a more robust and resilient ‘sustainability-oriented market framework’ focused on banking, institutional investment, public finance institutions and foreign direct investment. They called for policy and regulatory innovation in five areas:
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The International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) has begun the fourth edition of its Best Climate Practices (BCP) contest, this year dedicated to the urgent goal of Expanding access to climate
The new issue of the web magazine "Green Growth the Nordic Way" focuses on climate financing and parliamentary follow-up to COP21.
A collaborative blog between GGGI and TERI experts, exploring options by which the Indian economy can move towards an inclusive green growth paradigm of development.