In this report, Banque de France identifies climate‑related risk as a source of financial risks, assesses their potential financial and macroeconomic impacts, and highlights the opportunities associated with financing a transition to a low-carbon economy.
The Renewables 2019 Global Status Report marks 15 years since Bonn2004, the landmark international conference that gave rise to the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21). Then, a “coalition of the willing” came together with one objective in mind: to support and accelerate the development of renewable energy. From the outset, REN21’s mandate has been to collect, consolidate and synthesise a vast body of renewable energy data to provide clear and reliable information on what is happening in real time. This mandate still holds today.
This report Sustainable Industrial Development in Punjab, Pakistan focuses on the industrial province of Punjab, Pakistan that is home to over half of the country’s population.
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.