Sustainable Finance

The focus of the Sustainable Finance group is how to effectively mobilise finance to deliver climate action and sustainable development.

The group’s aim is to enable the transformation that is needed across the financial system to realise the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. This will require changes in financial analysis, financial policy and regulation as well as financial practice across the US$386 trillion in assets in banking, capital markets, investment funds and the insurance sectors. Momentum is building, but it is still not at the speed or scale required. Breakthrough approaches will be needed to reconnect finance with the real economy at a time of multiple ecological, social and technological transitions.

The group’s work consists of academic research, policy analysis, work with practitioners across a range of financial sectors, as well as communications and outreach. We are pursuing a number of interlocking work themes:

• Public finance: e.g. development banks and sustainable infrastructure
• Financial regulation: e.g. the role of central banks and supervisors
• Institutional investors: the Transition Pathway Initiative
• Insurance: e.g. responding to climate impacts and rewarding resilience
• Banking: e.g. environmental performance and credit quality
• Financial markets: e.g. climate risk management and asset pricing
• Financing a just transition: e.g. role of investors in promoting inclusive climate action
• Research Network on Energy Workforce Transitions (ReNEWT)

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