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.
Integrating nature into mainstream infrastructure systems can produce lower cost and more resilient services. This report guides developing country service providers and their partners on how to seize this opportunity. It reviews approaches and examples of how to integrate green infrastructure into mainstream project appraisal processes and investments.
This paper Creating Green Bond Markets: Insights, innovations, and tools from emerging markets represents the critical beginning for SBN members to build and expand local markets for green bonds. It captures SBN members’ diverse experiences and the latest insights into the drivers, challenges, and innovations to create green bond markets in the emerging markets.
The report The Potential Role of Enhanced Bond Structures in Forest Climate Finance sets out a detailed shortlist of three potential enhanced bond structures, which have the potential to catalyze funding across the gamut of forest-based nationally determined contribution (NDC) activities. The focus is on bond structures that blend donor-funded performance-based payments (PBP) alongside some upfront grant funding to improve the financial performance of the use of proceeds for issuers, and hence enable larger-scale financing from capital markets.
This Report Low Carbon Cities: Exploring new crediting approaches to deliver Carbon and Climate Finance discussed that by 2050, two-thirds of the planet’s population will live in urban centers, and nearly 90 percent of the 2.5 billion new urban dwellers will live in Africa and Asia. The world’s urban areas were responsible for around 70 percent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2013, and that number could grow by 50 percent by 2050 if current trends continue.