covid-19

The COVID-19 crisis demonstrates the need to invest much more in pre-disaster risk reduction and preparedness for a range of risks, including climate change and its accompanying hazards such as flooding. But what, asks Swenja Surminski, does this kind of investment need to consider in practice – and why is ‘resilience’ not already widely taken into account when making policy and investment decisions? Read more

The Philippines is highly exposed to natural hazards including typhoons. This report, finding that financial aid tends to be heavily focused on response to hazards rather than preparedness and resilience, investigates why further disaster risk policy intervention may be required at the local level and provides guidance to policymakers. Read more

ANDRIAM, a global sustainable and multi-assed focused investment manager and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (GRI) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) announce a new partnership to advance the global investment industry’s efforts towards a sustainable and inclusive global economy. Read more

This report provides an overview of the 21 projects commissioned by INSPIRE - the International Network for Sustainable Financial Policy Insights, Research and Exchange - up to spring 2020. The first preliminary results presented in this report point towards important policy implications, as well to the need for further research and exchange between researchers and central banks and supervisors. Read more

There’s an opportunity to build a new social contract, tackle inequality, foster innovation and adopt a long-term industrial strategy, write Sam Unsworth and Anna Valero, discussing some of the issues raised from a recent webinar hosted by the Royal Economic Society on policies for a strong and sustainable recovery from COVID-19. Read more

This brief argues that once the immediate rescue has been secured and countries move towards recovery from COVID-19, carefully implementing carbon pricing while reducing fossil fuel subsidies should be at the core of any stimulus package. Read more

Careful implementation of carbon pricing with reductions in fossil fuel subsidies can raise revenues to support the COVID-19 recovery and make society less vulnerable to future climate, ecological or public health risks, according to a new policy brief published today (May 15th). Read more