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Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
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.
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
This report, TCFD: 2019 Status Report provide an overview of current disclosure practices as they relate to the Task Force’s recommendations, highlight key challenges associated with implementing the recommendations, and outline some of the efforts the Task Force will consider undertaking in coming months to help address some of the implementation challenges.
United Nations Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
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.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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.
Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System (UN Environment Inquiry)
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)

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: