World Employment and Social Outlook 2018: Greening with jobs presents an assessment the employment impacts of the transition to a green economy. The reported estimates suggest that the net effect on job numbers will be positive, with a net increase of approximately 18 million jobs across the world as a result of the adoption of sustainable practices.
The report, Universal Ownership – Why environmental externalities matter to institutional investors, found that, large institutional investors are, in effect, “Universal Owners”, as they often have highly-diversified and long-term portfolios that are representative of global capital markets.
The report, The pollination deficit: Towards supply chain resilience in the face of pollinator decline, sets out a five-step roadmap to enable sustainable pollinator management within supply chains.
The report, The Economics of Land Degradation Neutrality in Asia, highlights the cost of land degradation and what economic benefits are generated through investments in sustainable land management.
The paper The Role of Investors in Promoting Sustainable Infrastructure Under the Belt and Road Initiative examines how the multilateral development banks (MDBs) and the European bilateral development finance institutions (DFIs) encourage the use of sustainable procurement by their borrowers, and how China’s policy banks approach this issue.