Climate Finance
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Climate Adaptation: It’s Everybody’s Business
The impacts of the climate crisis are rapidly intensifying, as evidenced by deadly heatwaves. Beyond slowing the pace of global warming, we must also protect our communities and adapt to living in a changing climate.
People and the planet together: Why Indigenous Peoples and local communities are at the heart of climate action
As we build the global climate finance architecture, Indigenous Peoples and local communities must have a seat at the table.
Sustainable Finance’s Next Big Act Will Tie Social Targets to Returns
Companies’ efforts to improve their environmental, social and governance credentials have given birth to a new type of debt – sustainability-linked finance – that links interest rates to ESG performance. But the majority of these instruments’ targets are mostly linked to issuers’ environmental impact, and not the impact they may have on the people they employ or the communities they affect.
With the pandemic bringing social issues to the fore and calls for a just transition to Net Zero, this could soon be about to change.
