here is growing evidence that the private sector can help address the climate adaptation finance gap and increase the resilience of vulnerable communities against the severe effects of climate change.
says Nicholson. “We need to be really clear that whatever is happening in loss and damage does not reduce the ambition for climate finance as a whole.”
This report brings together key reports from the investment world that demonstrate best practice on climate change, identifying the risks and opportunities, assessing how companies are dealing with them, and translating their performance and intentions into future financial returns. The emphasis is on co...
In this edition of CFO Insights, we’ll look at how increasing demands for accurate and transparent sustainability numbers offer the potential for finance chiefs to become better business partners to their C-suite peers. With a role that reaches across the enterprise, ...
United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), October 2009, The materiality of climate change, How finance copes with the ticking clock, A report by the Asset Management Working Group of ...
disruptions that are happening now or in the future. Leveraging technology, such as automated payments solutions, may not only help to improve cash flow but also may allow finance teams to focus on strategic projects, better positioning them to expand when the economy sta...
Forty years after the implementation of its reform and opening-up policy, China is not only the world's second largest economy, but also a world leader in green finance. In 2017 alone, China issued one-third of the world's green bonds, a relatively new field that focuses on financing...
However, many stakeholders are still trying to understand what climate finance actually includes, why climate finance is useful to communities, how different actors can build a tight ecosystem that sustains change, and which resources (...
COP26 is set to bring collective action on climate change, with finance in a lead role. Moderated by Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, “The Power of Collective Action: The Role of the Financial Industry in Transitioning the World to Net Zero” was the topic of a ...
According to FSD Kenya, the country’s commitment to addressing climate change through green finance has progressively emerged as a key topic underpinning policy development in promoting sustainable development and financial market growth. Large amounts of financial resources are needed to address...