This guide explains the main concepts and techniques associated with water valuation, drawing from the progressive efforts of companies that have already started valuing water and using 25 case studies of business-related applications.
This PDA describes the threats to Mongolia's already-degraded peatlands, and covers management strategies for the restoration and protection of these areas.
This report provides a high-level summary of the research on corporate action on WASH in supply chains. It provides key findings and recommendations for the practice and policy community. Case studies accompany this report and detail how companies are taking action.
In the absence of a unified framework of the interaction of real and financial aspects of the transition, one set of studies conceptualises and quantifies asset stranding and other transition costs in declining industries, and a separate literature estimates the potential impact of these transition costs on the financial system. Combining these two research strands and modelling the feedback of financial distress on the real economy will require more research. This working paper classify and review the types of risks and impacts such a combination will likely have to consider.
This report examines the energy insecurity and attitude towards renewable energy of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Japan. Recommendations for the development of renewable energy are discussed.
While plastic pollution is a global problem, around 60 percent of marine plastic debris enters the ocean from just five countries: China, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. This report focuses on the challenge of managing plastic packaging waste in Southeast Asia and China. In addition to showing the scale of the challenge, the report gives an idea of the funds that could be raised if these countries introduced extended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes, under which companies that place plastic packaging on the market cover the costs of its proper management—from collection and sorting to recycling and disposal.
This report sets out the TEG’s final recommendations to the European Commission. This report contains recommendations relating to the overarching design of the Taxonomy, as well as guidance on how users of the Taxonomy can develop Taxonomy disclosures. It contains a summary of the economic activities covered by the technical screening criteria.
This “EU Green Bond Standard Usability Guide” aims to support potential issuers, verifiers and investors of EU Green Bonds. It provides guidance reflecting the latest changes in the draft model of the EU GBS.
The Nature Map Explorer provides a detailed representation of the world's terrestrial areas with classification into habitat types, and allows specific searches into a variety of features such as human impact on forest, realised clean water provision, and areas of global significance for conservation. These are displayed as a set of integrated global maps on biodiversity and ecosystems services, including carbon. These maps aim to support the design and planning of policies aimed at limiting biodiversity loss, and net greenhouse gas emissions from land use.
The purpose of this Compendium is to provide the market and its stakeholders with a summary reference document of the most significant developments in international policy initiatives, and best market practices, within the sustainable capital debt market and broader financial community.