The Financing inclusive climate action in the UK: An investor roadmap for the just transition sets out the role that investors can play in delivering a just transition in the UK. It seeks to understand the growing momentum in favour of a just transition and to illustrate the implications through a set of place-based examples from Yorkshire and the Humber, before setting out recommendations for investor action.
The SME Competitiveness Outlook 2019 explains how best to scale up private sector investment in developing country SMEs for sustainable development impact. To boost investment in developing country small firms, this report finds that stronger investment facilitators (actors which connect firms to investors) are key. Other major findings: bundling investments for small firms into large packages helps scale up financing; disseminating information on small business credit performance improves risk assessments; and helping these firms to be investor-ready improves their commercial viability.
The independant report by the High-Level Group of Wise Persons on the European financial architecture for development recommends three options to streamline European Union development finance activity outside Europe and strengthen support for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
The paper ‘Transforming Green Bond Markets: Using Financial Innovation and Technology to Expand Green Bond Issuance in Latin America and the Caribbean’, provides an overview of the green bond market in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The manual Governing Infrastructure Regulators in Fragile Environments: Principles and implementation by the World Bank's purpose is to contribute to improvements in the quality of infrastructure regulation. It does so by identifying key principles for the governance of infrastructure regulators and by suggesting how these principles can be introduced successfully and maintained over time.