Performance Framework: Resilience

Resilience relates to the susceptibility of the system to disruptions due to the impacts of unsustainable development. This covers both the direct impact of environmental stress as well as impacts of transitional effects. This is inherently future-oriented and requires analysis over extended time periods, and consideration of the trade-offs between short-to-medium term resilience achieved by continuing to externalize external factors, and the longer-term risks of environmental and associated social upheavals.

Inquiry Publications

Stock Exchanges and Sustainability

Date: 23-Dec-2015

Stock exchanges have historically played an important role in economic growth and development through enabling effective capital allocation. However, exchanges and markets more broadly have changed over time, in structure, inter-connectedness and rate of activity. This has happened against a backdrop of growing recognition of the unsustainability of the current economic growth path in both
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
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