Scaling Private Sector Climate Finance in the MENA Region

The global effort to fight climate change as well as the need to adapt and build resilience to the changing climate (climate adaptation) pose a set of challenges and opportunities for financial institutions in the MENA region. UNEPFI underwent a consultation process with member banks in the MENA region regarding climate finance in general and opportunities to provide support in scaling private sector finance for climate action in the region.
¿Cómo acelerar la innovación verde en América Latina y el Caribe y por dónde empezar?

El presente documento publicado por el BID vislumbra algunos lineamientos para el diseño de instrumentos de política para impulsar la innovación verde en la región. A pesar de su gran potencial en fomentar un nuevo modelo donde crecimiento económico y generación de empleo sean compatibles con la sostenibilidad del sistema natural, varios factores, tanto internos como externos a las empresas, han limitado su difusión en el tejido empresarial de la región.
Public development banks driving gender equality: An overview of practices and measurement frameworks

This publication was jointly prepared by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and
the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).
The publication was led by Vanina Vincensini, UN Women with substantive contributions from Mar Merita Blat, Philippe Galland and Myriam Mesbah from AFD; and Vipul Bhagat, Anna Falth, Robyn Oates and Diana Rusu from UN Women. The authors would like to thank the experts who generously contributed their time and expertise to review the report, including Lizabeth Bronder, Marcelo Giugale, Anna Gollub, Esther Illouz, and Daniel Seymour.
Climate Finance Provided and Mobilised by Developed Countries: Aggregate trends updated with 2019 Data

This report analyses options to make international public climate finance more transformative. This analysis focuses on the use of climate finance for wider catalysation of overall financing for climate finance in developing countries. The report identifies eight sets of levels to drive. Climate action: project-based investments, financial sector reform, fiscal policies, sectoral policies, trade policy, innovation and technology transfer, carbon markets, and climate intelligence.
Transformative Climate Finance: A new approach for climate finance to achieve low-carbon resilient development in developing countries

This report analyses options to make international public climate finance more transformative. This analysis focuses on the use of climate finance for wider catalysation of overall financing for climate finance in developing countries. The report identifies eight sets of levels to drive. Climate action: project-based investments, financial sector reform, fiscal policies, sectoral policies, trade policy, innovation and technology transfer, carbon markets, and climate intelligence.
Linking Climate Change Financing to Sustainability: Implications for Agriculture

In the context of Development Finance Institutions’ (DFIs) efforts to mobilise private sector capital in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, this document explore the progress to date from the perspective of private sector banks and focus, among others, on how banks choose to align their operations with the SDGs and the nature of the relationship that banks have with DFIs.