This report, Financing the Transition – How Financial System Reform Can Serve Sustainable Development, is focused on understanding how the growing number of policy and regulatory measures taken in the financial system can support a real economy in transition.
This report, Financing Sustainable Development: Moving from Momentum to Transformation in a Time of Turmoil, proposes five steps to embed financing for sustainable development at the heart of tomorrow’s global financial system and deliver the much-needed transformation.
This paper, Greening the Banking System, takes stock of G20 experience with green banking, focusing on market practice. It assesses the evolving green banking agenda, focusing on mainstreaming and mobilization, drivers of progress, and key barriers. It concludes with a set of options for consideration by the G20.
This paper, Definitions and Concepts: Background Note, provides an initial mapping of existing practice in G20 and other countries and, where relevant internationally, highlights areas of convergence and difference, as well as distinctions between green, climate, and sustainable finance.
The primary goal of the present study, Government Subsidies to the Global Financial System, is to understand the character and to estimate the total value of subsidies, both direct and implicit, from governments to the private sector institutions that make up the global financial system.