Investors’ appetite for impact investing—in which they seek to generate positive impact for society alongside strong financial returns—could total as much as $26 trillion, according to the report Creating Impact: The Promise of Impact Investing.
This paper A New Multilateralism for Shared Prosperity: Geneva Principles for a Global Green New Deal advances an urgent research and policy agenda for a New Multilateralism that rebuilds the rules of the global economy toward goals of coordinated stability, shared prosperity, and environmental sustainability, while deliberately respecting the space for national policy sovereignty.
This paper, Addressing the Challenge of Marine Plastic Litter Using Circular Economy Methods, states the possible solution of dealing with the current marine plastics through implementing circular economy practices. This, in conjunction with optimizing landfill management, will help to substantially reduce the amount of those plastics most likely to end up as marine plastic litter.
This Policy Paper, Sustainable Connectivity: Closing the gender gap in infrastructure shows how women and men may use infrastructure differently according to their needs, social roles or preferences.
This report reviews the state of Italy's fossil-fuel subsidies and their progress in reforming their policies to reduce wasteful consumption. This is part of the G20's framework of voluntary peer reviews on fossil-fuel subsidies.
Increased use of renewable energy, combined with intensified electrification, could prove decisive for the world to meet key climate goals by 2050. This study highlights immediately deployable, cost-effective options for countries to fulfill climate commitments and limit the rise of global temperatures.