The resource, Social Bonds - Illustrative use-of-proceeds case studies: Coronavirus aims to provide an illustrative reference by which issuers and bond market participants can evaluate the financing objectives of a Social or Sustainability Bond in light of the current coronavirus epidemic and its global socio-economic impact.
This report aims to assess how policymakers and other stakeholders understand green growth, why knowledge on green growth diverges across regions, and what common understanding can be integrated in the green growth framework to enhance the relevance of the index for policy decision-making.
This document outlines the concepts, approaches, and methodologies used to estimate expected strategic outcome (SO) impacts of current projects and to develop approximate future targets for impacts based on the institute’s planned future activities.
The Coronavirus ESG Monitor indicates trends and insights where the COVID-19 pandemic intersects with environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues.
This report presents the anonymised analysis of the 79 investors who participated on a voluntary basis and cover a representative sample of around two thirds of the listed equity and corporate bonds held by Swiss pension funds and insurances.
This report provides options for standardisation examined by the ISO 14097 working group. It is based on a review of more than 130 financial institutions’ actions and initiatives on the integration of climate-related issues and current standards and disclosure frameworks aiming at improving financial institutions' practices and its comparability.
This report provides an overview of ecolabels that are currently used both in the European Union and at the national level, and an opportunity to apply them to both priority groups of products. The ultimate scope of the study is to define a list of ecolabels to be used for both priority groups, based on an analysis of the existing ecolabels.
To ensure Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) for key purchases, that guide recommends that environmental, social, and economic criteria should be applied, in this case, to select sustainable CFL products.
To ensure SPP for key purchases, environmental, social, and economic criteria should be applied, in this case, to determine sustainable LEDs. This guidance details criteria on technical specifications for LED lights, inclusive of sustainability requirements.
In the selection of paper products, in addition to the current regulation under the Law on Procurement, more environmental, social, and economic sustainability criteria should be used in Vietnam. These criteria are explained in this guidance.