This report Financing Climate Futures: Shifting the Lens - Interim Briefing is one part of the broader Financing Climate Futures initiative focusing on the identification of critical uncertainties posing constraints to aligning financial flows with climate objectives and in particular infrastructure investment.
The 2019 Financing for Sustainable Development Report, the fourth report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development, provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of sustainable finance, four years after the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. The report warns that mobilizing sufficient financing remains a major challenge in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Despite signs of progress, investments that are critical to achieving the SDGs remain underfunded and parts of the multilateral system are under strain.
This paper, Infrastructure for Sustainable Development, analyses the role of infrastructure in directly and indirectly impacting progress on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and provides evidence of both the threat and opportunity infrastructure presents to reaching the global goals.
On 25 March, experts gathered to discuss the opportunities and challenges in Africa surrounding the energy-development nexus. Energy choices made today will have long-term consequences on Africa's future economic development and environmental standing, and making the best choices will require more cooperation and cohesion than currently present.
How can governments optimize the value of infrastructure spending for taxpayers? A new tool for Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) helps governments and investors price the environmental, social and economic value of sustainable infrastructure projects. Experts gathered to present and discuss early first-hand experiences with the application of the tool at a recent event in Geneva.
This report provides a synthesis of the results of a five-year research project implemented by ENERGIA to provide evidence and analysis of the interactions between energy, access and gender.