
This report evaluates the “state of the practice” for sustainability standards and rating or accounting systems within one asset class—infrastructure investment. It reviews the standards and assessment tools available to investors and developers to measure and report on the sustainability and resilience of their infrastructure investments.

This issue brief Shades of Green: An introduction to the Green Economy for Parliamentarians aims to provide parliamentarians with a basic understanding of the green economy and of the policies required to transition toward it.

The G20 Green Finance Study Group (GFSG) and Sustainable Finance Study Group (SFSG) have been looking at ways to overcome a variety of institutional and market barriers to scaling up private finance over the last three years. Seven options were outlined in the G20 Green Finance Synthesis Report released in September 2016, and the Green Finance Progress Report assessed progress against these seven options in the 12 months that followed. This report focuses on progress in sustainable finance developments from July 2017 to the current date.

This publication examines the enormous potential for scaling up green business development in Asia and the Pacific, by reviewing green markets, technologies and practices before offering a set of policy options to enable governments and finance institutions to accelerate green business development in the region

This report discusses the range of measure that countries are adopting to address the implementation gap when it comes to environmental regulations and to ensure that rule of law is effective in the environmental sphere.