Estimates of Emissions Reduction Potential for the 2015 Report

It's time for companies and investors to make 2016 a 'Year of Green Finance' by putting efforts to reduce emissions on their priority list for investment and risk management, writes Caio Koch-Weser.

World leaders need to make it clear that they choose an inclusive and sustainable economy over the ageing, carbon-intensive dirty economic model based on burning fossil fuels, writes Paul Polman in The Guardian.

This paper is a background review representing part of the initial phase of the Financing the Urban Transition work programme. The review builds on a growing body of research that highlights both the importance of national sustainable infrastructure and the need to develop more effective and efficient financing mechanisms for delivering compact, connected cities that meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. While progress has been made in both these areas over the last five years, there remains a policy gap between the international/national level and the municipal level.

By Agnes Kalibata