Performance Framework: Effectiveness

Effectiveness concerns the degree to which markets price sustainability factors are into asset values. This is core to assessing the existence of market failures, although there remains a need to distinguish market failures and policy weaknesses associated with the real economy (e.g. lack of carbon pricing) and market failures and policy weaknesses in the financial economy, such as not considering the potential market impacts of future carbon pricing.

Inquiry Publications

Imagining a Sustainable Financial System

Date: 07-Dec-2014

Imagining a sustainable financial system allows us to move beyond conventional wisdoms. This paper sets out that a sustainable financial system would be one that serves the long term needs of a healthy real economy, an economy that provides decent, productive and rewarding livelihoods for all, and ensures that the natural environment on which we all
Towards a Performance Framework for a Sustainable Financial System

Date: 29-Nov-2016

This paper is intended to serve as a window on the Inquiry’s analytical approach, providing a deeper understanding of the unifying criteria for evaluation of multiple market designs for financial systems in a variety of economic, political and social settings. It is also intended to provide a foundation for investors and corporate management and policymakers,
Roadmap for a Sustainable Financial System

Date: 20-Apr-2017

CALL FOR CONSULTATION UN Environment and the World Bank Group view the over-arching objective of a sound financial system as being to provide finance that meets the long-term needs of an inclusive, environmentally sustainable economy. While there is no single blueprint or unique pathway for creating such a “sustainable financial system”, it is possible to describe
Reforming Electronic Markets and Trading

Date: 22-Dec-2015

Electronic markets and high-frequency trading (HFT) now comprise over half of all securities trading on both public “lit” exchanges and “unlit” dark pools and electronic platforms.This paper documents the proceedings of an expert seminar, chaired by Hazel Henderson. It includes contributions from: Hazel Henderson, Ethical Markets Media; John Ramsay, IEX; Dave Lauer, KOR Trading; Robert Zevin, Zevin
The Financial System We Need: From Momentum to Transformation

Date: 29-Sep-2016

Download the policy summary: [AR] [CH] [EN] [ES] [FR] [PT] [RU] Download the individual chapters: Chapter 1: Mapping the momentum | Chapter 2: Harnessing financial technology for sustainable development | Chapter 3: Measuring performance | Chapter 4: Steps towards transformation Our follow-up annual report reveals a doubling in policy actions over the past five years to align the global financial system with sustainable