On 16-18 February 2022, the World Sustainable Development Summit will be held under the theme "Towards a Resilient Planet: Ensuring a Sustainable and Equitable Future".
The Nigeria Green Tagging Banking Review supports a strong monitoring and disclosure framework that would allow financial institutions in the country to accurately and transparently report their financial footprint to financial regulators. Developed as part of the Green Finance Platform’s GEF Aligning Finance Policies project, it includes scenario-based analyses of loans portfolios from three Nigerian commercial banks and assesses the percentage exposure of their portfolios to low-carbon and high-carbon assets based on established taxonomy.
This webinar in the Sustainable Infrastructure: Putting Principle into Practice series will explore Principle #8: Fiscal Sustainability and Innovative Financing from UNEP's International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure
We are told that moving towards a green economy is too expensive, while we see trillions of dollars spent to prop up business-as-usual.
This report highlights innovative financial structures that have the potential to transform livelihoods and sustain projects at the local level.
Results presented in this analysis finds that renewables will be cheaper investments than new large-scale gas facilities.