The Environmental Sustainability in Asia publication series, published by the Korea Environment Institute (KEI), demonstrates a comprehensive picture of the progress, challenges and opportunities of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation in the Asian countries. The second issue in the series focuses on Cambodia
The study explores the link between financial returns and gender diversity; the lack of women in the industry; and steps needed to achieve gender balance. One of the key findings of the report is that private equity and venture capital funds with gender-balanced senior investment teams generated 10 percent to 20 percent higher returns compared with funds that have a majority of male or female leaders.
The G20 Green Finance Study Group (GFSG) and Sustainable Finance Study Group (SFSG) have been looking at ways to overcome a variety of institutional and market barriers to scaling up private finance over the last three years. Seven options were outlined in the G20 Green Finance Synthesis Report released in September 2016, and the Green Finance Progress Report assessed progress against these seven options in the 12 months that followed. This report focuses on progress in sustainable finance developments from July 2017 to the current date.
This document presents lessons learned from over twenty Climate Public Expenditure and Institutional Reviews, a key tool for country decision-makers to improve their understanding of how and how much they are spending on their national climate change responses, and to identify public programmes with climate change objectives or co-benefits in which governments are investing.
This report, 1.5-Degree Lifestyles: Targets and options for reducing lifestyle carbon footprints, analyses the carbon footprint of household lifestyles and how changes can contribute to meeting the ambitious 1.5-degree aspirational target envisaged by the Paris Agreement on climate change. It analyses scientific emission scenarios and case studies from Finland, Japan, China, Brazil, and India, and proposes long-term targets for individuals’ lifestyle carbon footprints by 2030-2050, as well as low-carbon options that citizens and society can adopt.