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As a global financial centre with a growing strategic interest in sustainable finance, and a country recognized as a leader in digital technologies and innovation, Switzerland is seeking an improved understanding of how digital finance can accelerate the greening of financial flows. This implies the integration of environmental risks and opportunities into day-to-day financing and investment decisions, as well as the development of financial services and products that make a substantial contribution to environmental objectives. It also involves the use of policy approaches that harness green digital finance applications to realign financial flows towards low-carbon and resource-efficient economies. To help improve understanding of what it would take to reach such an ideal state, UN Environment, with support from the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), undertook a stocktaking to map emerging green digital finance practices in Switzerland and globally in 2018.

The report The Economic, Social and Environmental Impacts of Greening the Industrial Sector in Cambodia provides evidence on the economics and social benefits of greening the industrial sector of Cambodia based on a robust economic analysis that included a quantitative study and integrated modeling and scenario analysis.

In the context of the OECD, UN Environment and World Bank Group's "Financing Climate Futures: Rethinking Infrastructure" initiative, this synthesis report identifies six transformative areas that have the potential to help the different financial actors move beyond an incremental approach to the low-carbon transition towards the transformational agenda needed for decisive action.

Use of renewable energy and more efficient use of natural assets are two essential aspects to foster rural development and increase agricultural productivity in Mozambique. The Green Growth Potential Assessment – Mozambique Country Report presents recommendations for both aspects.

Carbon pricing instruments come in many shapes and forms; in this report, IISD analyzes the possible development of innovative approaches to linking carbon pricing instruments and considers how carbon pricing club members could reduce emissions while keeping costs low.