This report is the Urban Land Institute (ULI)'s first-ever outlook on issues that are specific to environmental, social, and governance (ESG)—a broad and critically important topic that affects every aspect of our businesses, our industry, and communities.
This report sets out ten guiding principles that policymakers can follow to help integrate sustainability into infrastructure planning and delivery. They are focused on integrated approaches and systems-level interventions that governments can make to create an enabling environment for sustainable infrastructure.
This report includes of a selection of case studies that illustrate each of the ten guiding principles which are featured in the first publication of this series on International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure.
This Urban Adaptation Finance Tracking brief identifies gaps and barriers to financing resilience solutions in global urban areas and highlights entry points to drive action by investors, cities, national governments, and other stakeholders to increase urban adaptation finance.
This publication is intended for businesses, especially Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). It aims to demonstrate the compelling business case for eco-innovation and how it can enable companies to carve out commercially interesting opportunities.
The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is developing a Simulation Tool based on coupled system dynamics models for the different indicators of the Green Growth Index. As illustrated in this technical report, such models are very complex but, at the same time, extremely useful in exploring relevant scenarios on future implications of policy and investment decisions on green growth transition.
In this paper, the identification of gaps in climate finance is based on a comprehensive review not only of current climate finance projects, but also of the contributions of SMEs to climate action, drawing on nearly twenty years of experience in providing incubation and acceleration programmes for eco-inclusive enterprises within SEED programmes as well as insights and good practices from the interrelated spheres of SME finance and green finance. This paper provides climate finance practitioners and policymakers as well as local financial institutions and other SME intermediaries (such as incubators, accelerators, business development service (BDS) providers) with tangible recommendations to better understand and leverage the potential of SMEs in meeting climate action objectives from the ground up.
The year 2020 is a year unlike any other, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to severely hit countries, resulting in more than 70 million infected people globally, a million deaths, millions of unemployed people, and trillions of dollars pulled-out for emergency stimulus packages to rescue the economies. The full impact of the pandemic is still expanding and governments are under immense pressure not only to invest in COVID-19 recovery packages while facing budget shortfalls, rising debt, and declining tax revenues, but also to “green” these investments.
The report communicates how climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution can be tackled jointly within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals. It serves to translate the current state of scientific knowledge into crisp, clear, and digestible facts-based messages that the world can relate to and follow up on.
This report introduces the concept of a Zero-Emissions Delivery Zone (ZED Zone), a new innovative financing model that can accelerate commercial vehicle electrification, while delivering substantial financial, social and environmental returns for forward-thinking investors.