Chinese asset managers have made progress in expanding their ESG research capabilities, and onshore Chinese companies have increasingly been included in global benchmarks.
The report describes the two main driving forces for the development of responsible investment and ESG integration in China: top down policy pushing for green growth, and globalisation, which opens China up to scrutiny from international investors. Additionally, a third pressure is proposed: that ESG can be a source of alpha and better returns.
This reflection paper explores how developing and least developed countries can incorporate just transition principles into their revised NDCs, enabling more ambitious and equitable emission reduction strategies.
This brochure contains global, regional, and national resources for entrepreneurs in the energy sector. It also hopes to balance the picture of the predominant image of male leadership and male entrepreneurship by showing a wide array of what is possible for female entrepreneurs in the sphere of sustainable energy, including but not limited to innovative block-chain based solutions, financing and legal services.
This report summarises analyses on the implication of the Paris Agreement’s temperature limit for the Mongolian electricity supply sector, considers the health impacts associated with air pollution from coal power plants, and identifies several actionable next steps to accelerate mitigation ambition in the future.
This report, and accompanying interactive portal, track the economic and financial risks of coal power at the asset-level throughout the world. They conclude that the risk of coal power is increasing and profitability is decreasing.
This report presents a snapshot of some of the latest information available on how COVID-19 is affecting the world at the point of publishing.
The Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) Expert Group on Natural Capital has released the working paper, Recognizing Natural Capital in Policy Frameworks for Green Growth. The paper suggests a set of checklist criteria for integrating natural capital into green growth policymaking after reviewing 11 green growth and natural capital policy frameworks. This integration framework is then applied to the green growth policy frameworks of four leading organisations, the results of which suggests that a more comprehensive consideration of natural capital assets and services could significantly strengthen green growth policy support at the national level.
The Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) Expert Group on Natural Capital has released the working paper, Natural Capital and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The paper presents a methodology to estimate the “natural capital gap” in attaining nine SDGs and demonstrates the estimated sum of global natural capital gaps.
This document describes four response points from UNEP on COVID-19, and outlines their ambition to support member states and the incorporation of the environment into response efforts.
This report provides an overview key factors affecting concentrated solar power (CSP), the cooperation mechanisms, and consequently the obstacles encountered by the cooperation mechanisms for CSP.