This report, Meeting Global Housing Needs with Low Carbon Materials proposes the greater use of low-carbon building materials in addressing the low-cost housing gap in cities.
This report, Driving Finance Today for the Climate Resilient Society of Tomorrow, reviews barriers and opportunities for financing resilience and adaptation by all actors across the financial system but chiefly targets financial system constituents, including policymakers and financial actors, and the actions required of each.
An India Advisory Council of the UNEP India Inquiry was convened by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). This report, Delivering a Sustainable Financial System in India highlights key proposals emerging from their discussions for aligning the Indian financial system with sustainability.
In the Indian context, they call for the development of a more robust and resilient ‘sustainability-oriented market framework’ focused on banking, institutional investment, public finance institutions and foreign direct investment. They called for policy and regulatory innovation in five areas:
This handbook, Green Growth Assessment & Extended Cost Benefit Analysis: A handbook for policy and investment decision makers, is an introductory guide for policy makers to apply the Green Growth Assessment Process (GGAP) and extended Cost Benefit Analysis (eCBA) in the planning process. Both tools provide an integrated framework to provide a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the economic, social, and environmental impacts of the projects.
Shifting Gears: How the world’s leading financial centres are entering a new phase of strategic action on green and sustainable finance is intended to stimulate dialogue on the role of financial centre action as green and sustainable finance develops. The report summarizes the results of FC4S's 2018 pilot of this assessment programme.