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The GGKP and the UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System launched the Green Finance Measures Database - a library of policy and regulatory measures across 60 developed and developing countries that support the development of green finance
- on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25) in Madrid.
"This type of analysis can help public authorities learn from others' experiences, raise ambition and strengthen understanding of how their actions are leading to positive changes," said UNEP's Jeremy McDaniels, who developed the database alongside Green Finance Platform Manager Camille Andre.
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The fourth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (
UNEA-4) adopted
a resolution on mineral resource governance, recognizing the important contribution of mining towards the achievement of the SDGs, and the dependence of low-carbon clean technologies on metals and minerals.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is looking for a technical institution partner to support its work towards implementing this resolution, and is calling for applications from research institutes, universities, non-government organizations, and not-for-profit organizations.
Applications should be submitted by 31 December 2019.
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The OECD has released the report "Aligning Development Co-operation and Climate Action: The Only Way Forward". The report outlines how development co-operation providers can make changes at home, in developing countries and in the international development co-operation system, to help create low-emissions, climate-resilient economies, and how they can avoid supporting activities that lock the world into an unsustainable future.
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The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has released a set of Smart Freight Procurement Guidelines that aim to enable organizations to reduce emissions and air pollutants through their freight transport and logistics procurement. These guidelines complement the
Global Logistics Emissions Council (GLEC) Framework for logistics emissions calculation and reporting, as part of Smart Freight Centre's broader effort to help companies on their journey to zero-emissions freight.
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The Climate Bonds Initiative has released the Green Bond European Investor Survey 2019, the first in a planned series of investor surveys. Forty-eight of the largest Europe-based investment managers participated, representing a total of €13.7 trillion in assets under management. Since investment decisions are complex and depend on many factors, the survey attempted to isolate the factors that pertain to the green bond market.
The survey finds that investors are looking for green transition opportunities. They want deals with high-climate impact and highly value green credentials and transparency. It also finds that policy is a key driver to investment, and that there is a widespread lack of supply.
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The IFC has released the report, "Green Buildings: A Finance and Policy Blueprint for Emerging Markets". It provides a blueprint of the replicable and scalable solutions available to different market players to mainstream private investment in formal, new green buildings construction in emerging markets. It showcases current best practices by the players with the most influence to accelerate and amplify the green buildings market: financiers, policymakers, building owners, and developers across developed and emerging economies.
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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Circularity Platform provides an understanding of the circularity concept, its scope, and how it contributes to promoting sustainable consumption and production patterns. It also offers a wide range of resources and features stories illustrating how various stakeholders have successfully adopted circular approaches.
The platform provides information on circular processes in four categories:
- Reduce by design: Reducing the amount of material used, particularly raw material, should be applied as an overall guiding principle from the earliest stages of design of products and services
- From a user-to-user perspective: Refuse, reduce and re-use
- From a user-to-business intermediary perspective: Repair, refurbish and remanufacture
- From business-to-business: Repurpose and recycle
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The International Labour Organization (ILO) SME Performance Measurement Toolkit is a practical resource for organizations providing support to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It helps projects decide what aspects of SME performance to measure, as well as how to measure them. It consists of an indicator inventory-a set of actionable metrics drawn from existing sustainability standards, company codes of conduct, and international development monitoring and evaluation frameworks-and a set of tools and methods for data collection, with real-life examples of measurement in a developing country context.
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About the GGKP
The Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (
GGKP
) is a global community of organisations and experts dedicated to providing the policy, business and finance communities with knowledge, data, guidance and tools to transition to an inclusive green economy through the policy-focused Green Growth Knowledge Platform, Green Industry Platform and Green Finance Platform. The GGKP is led by the Global Green Growth Institute (
GGGI
), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (
OECD
), United Nations Environment Programme (
UNEP
), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and
World Bank Group
.
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