These policy briefs provide insights on addressing digital divides, renewable energy financing, pandemic learning loss recovery, social welfare as populations age and growing digital cross-border payment risks.
This report seeks to raise awareness of the relevance of nature-related risks and opportunities for underwriters, and explores how the insurance industry can properly account for nature in decision-making processes.
Dan Broghan breaks down the mechanism behind sovereign credit rating models and its evolving relationship with natural capital valuation and risk assessment.
Interview with Linxiu Zhang, Director of UNEP-International Ecosystem Management Partnership, on the policy brief on "Women’s Empowerment for Sustainable Food Systems."
The World Resources Institute, Cities4Forests, the World Bank, the Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction, the African Development Bank, the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership, the Caterpillar Foundation, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit have joined forces to evaluate NBS investment opportunities in SSA. They aim to identify the barriers and opportunities to scaling NBS, inform strategies on how to invest in NBS, and create enabling conditions for scaling and replication in other locations. This blog outlines three opportunities how to get involved with the research in the lead-up to COP27 and COP15.
This event will examine the current trends in financing NbS for adaptation on the continent. It will highlight investments and alliances that are overcoming the challenges of investing in NbS for adaptation and what more needs to be done to leverage its potential. This event will bring together perspectives from actors critical to scaling up these investments.