Inquiry Publications

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  China Report: The Risks and Opportunities of Stranded Assets

  Date: 06-Oct-2015

  The rise and fall of different technologies, products and businesses are central to rising productivity in healthy, well-functioning markets. This process can result in “stranded assets”—assets that have suffered from unanticipated or premature write-downs, devaluations or conversion to liabilities. Stranded assets are therefore a regular and necessary feature of dynamic economic systems, a phenomenon inherent
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  Banking & Sustainability: Time for Convergence

  Date: 01-Sep-2015

  In 2014, the UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) commissioned a study entitled Stability and Sustainability in Banking Reform – Are Environmental Risks Missing in Basel III?, in recognition of the growing number of banking regulators around the world that have started to act on environmental
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  Financing the Transition

  Date: 07-Apr-2017

  This paper presents a fictional Fast Track scenario, suggesting the key features of how a rapid transition to a low-carbon, resilient economy could play out in the financial system in terms of impacts on assets as well as on financial policy. This scenario helps to challenge some of today’s assumptions, notably that climate disruption is
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  Green Tagging: Mobilising Bank Finance for Energy Efficiency in Real Estate

  Date: 12-Dec-2017

  This report finds that green tagging around real estate and energy efficiency is growing at a critical time. Based on a survey of the 10 participating banks, the report identifies five key trends around green tagging: New green business opportunities are a stronger incentive for green tagging than improved risk management for banks. This practice