This policy brief reviews existing approaches to sustainable investment and explores ways to improve their interoperability. Interoperability does not mean that all systems and tools need to operate in the same way. Rather, there should be clarity regarding how the tools interact, and sufficient comparability and interoperability between approaches so they are usable and accepted as credible across multiple jurisdictions.
Sustainable investment has been the hot topic for the financial industry in recent years, but its impact remains unclear. More and more investors are incorporating Environmental, Social and Governance (EGS) issues into their investment decision-making and are marketing…
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 125: Improving compatibility of approaches to identify, verify and align investments to sustainability goals
Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically set back progress on sustainable development. From a financing for development perspective, countries are faced with a dual setback ? they have regressed on sustainable development outcomes, and they have much less fiscal space post-pandemic to invest in recovery and the SDGs. As they formulate recovery plans to ?build back better?, it is thus imperative that such strategies include a coherent and integrated approach to financing related investments.
Such financing strategies are a key element of Integrated national financing frameworks (INFFs), a country owned planning tool that provide a framework for incorporating financing into…
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 124: Integrated National Financing Frameworks ? moving towards financing policy integration
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