A debt crisis is looming in the Global South. Although international capital has partially returned to developing and emerging economies, in many low- and middle-income countries debt service is impeding crisis responses and contributing to worsening development prospects and a compromised ability to adapt to the impending climate crisis as well as threatening the achievement of the SDGs.
NGFS and INSPIRE have established a joint Study Group on Biodiversity and Financial Stability, with the aim to understand the potential implications of biodiversity loss for financial stability.
This paper analyses the crucial interlinkage of ocean and coastal and marine Nature-based Solutions (NbS) as part of the GST.
The report from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) takes stock of corporate climate ambition in G7 countries. It assesses the temperature ratings of the leading equity indexes of their markets and frames science-based target setting as the solution to bridge the ambition gap, outlining levers to unlock breakthrough climate mitigation action.
Over the last two decades, private equity has outperformed other asset classes while growing tremendously, adding $US trillions in assets under management. Based on its recent returns and scale, private equity is more attractive and more influential than ever before. The Changing Climate for Private Equity, a joint research project between the SustainAbility Institute by ERM (the SustainAbility Institute) and Ceres, seeks to understand how deeply climate-related expertise is embedded within private equity firms and to explore what climate performance expectations they impose on the companies in which they invest.