This technical report outlines the concept, method, and step-by-step guidance of the 3Returns Framework for decision makers to incorporate financial, natural, and social and human capital when analysing sustainable landscape interventions.
The report showcases the results of piloting the 3Returns Framework in the coastal ecosystem restoration of mangrove forests in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar, demonstrating monetary and non-monetary benefits of restoration.
This essay compilation covers a wide range of development trends and issues of critical importance to the achievement of the SDGs and the recovery from COVID-19.
Over the next decade, banks and the financial sector as a whole will need to show how they are aligning their balance sheets with the UK’s net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target, how they are enabling households and companies to become resilient to climate change impacts, and how the process of often disruptive transition can be steered so that it is fair and inclusive. These goals combine to form the challenge of the just transition, a task that has become even more important with the shock of COVID-19. This report presents research findings and recommendations for how to achieve these aims. It focuses primarily on the role of the UK’s banks and building societies, but it also contains recommendations for other lenders and government at all levels.
This report explores environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing in fixed-income markets and examines the evolution of “green” debt from an issuer, investor and regulatory perspective.
This discussion paper presents key findings and options for mineral governance developed by UNEP and others.