Digital Tokens for Climate Action and Nature-Based Solutions: Exploration of Opportunities and Considerations
This report on digital tokens for climate action and nature-based solutions forms a valuable addition to the emerging body of knowledge and is specially intended to inform, inspire, and spur action for new, innovative, and potentially effective ways of providing financial resources and effective action for climate action and the conservation and regeneration of our natural capital.
Climate and development : the BNDES’s contribution to a just transition
The search for a carbon-neutral future depends on sustainable development, which jointly considers economic, environmental and social aspects in order to achieve a just transition. This objective is part of the BNDES’s strategy and institutional purpose of “transforming the lives of generations, promoting sustainable development”.
National DFIs: Critical allies for climate action Why and how can they be more involved in climate finance?
National development finance institutions (NDFIs) can play a vital role in promoting climate
financing and thus achieving Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) due to their
knowledge of local markets, their close connections to domestic public and private
stakeholders and their ability for local currency financing. However, currently NDFIs are not
involved as intensively in this field as they could be.
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.
Greenflation: The cost of the green transition in small open economies
We propose a new model of a small open economy with efficient energy use to investigate the inflationary dynamics along
the green transition. The model incorporates the production of
green energy that substitutes exogenous brown energy sources
in energy production. Production is characterized by low substitutability between resource and traditional inputs that firms
can alter through directed input-saving technical change.
ADAPTING TO NATURAL DISASTERS IN AFRICA
The private sector has an indispensable role to play in advancing climate adaptation and resilience building. The need for private sector solutions to address climate change impacts is even more pronounced in Africa given its sizable needs for adaptation and the limited fiscal space of most African states to adapt and build resilience to climate and disaster risks.
Decoding the Union budget 2023- 24 : MSME edition
By 2028, it is expected that India’s MSME sector will have contributed US$ 1 trillion to the country’s overall exports, accounting for around 33% of the country’s GDP. There are 7.9 million registered Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in India (MSMEs). About 120 million employment across industries and regions are supported by the sector, which amounts for about 33% of the nation’s overall GDP.
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.