Report of the First Annual Forum on Human Rights Defenders in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean
This document is the official report of the First Annual Forum on Human Rights Defenders in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Quito on 22 and 23 November 2022. The Forum was convened by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
Aligning Climate Policy Engagement with Net-Zero Commitments
This paper supports asset owners in assessing the climate policy engagement
approaches of one of their most important strategic partners: their asset managers.
This paper provides key principles to evaluate and engage asset managers on both their
in-house climate policy engagement and on their portfolio stewardship activities regarding investees’ climate policy engagement.
Increasing the Alignment of Global Finance with Nature
The global economy must
deliver nature-positive, equitable
outcomes if we are to tackle
the existential challenges of
nature loss and climate change.
As nature is not material in most
financial decision-making, there
is significant misalignment of
public and private financial flows
with nature-positive outcomes.
Understanding the current
degree of alignment of global
finance, and identifying actions
needed to increase it is vital.
Congo Basin Climate Commission
The present study was drafted under the overall leadership of Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in close collaboration with Hanan Morsy, Deputy Executive Secretary and Chief Economist at ECA, and with guidance provided by Jean-Paul Adam, Director of Technology, Climate Change and Natural Resources Management Division at ECA. The formulation of the standardized and harmonized protocol was supervised by Nassim Oulmane, Chief of the Green and Blue Economy Section at ECA, and Louis Mitondo Lubango, Environmental Affairs Officer, Technology, Climate Change and Natural Resources Management Division. Maxim Lobovikov provided detailed input to facilitate the development of the protocol.
The role of National Public Development Banks in Financing the Water and Sanitation SDG 6 the Water related goals of the Paris Agreement and Biodiversity Protection
This report is a global assessment of national public development banks’ (PDBs) involvement in the water sector in its broadest sense. It was commissioned by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in the context of the Finance in Common Initiative, which seeks to enhance PDBs’ role in financing countries’ commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement.