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Category: Guest contribution

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The climate transition offers new opportunities for investors

In this guest contribution, Frédéric Rochat, explains how the climate transition is creating unprecedented opportunities for investors.

Frédéric Rochat
April 19, 2023

Guest contribution

No time to waste, the only way is forward – COP27 and the accountable road to COP28

Peter Bakker, President and CEO of WBCSD shares his insights from COP27.

November 29, 2022

Guest contribution

COP27 and Climate Progress

The curtains have come down on COP27 and the dial ticks upwards to COP28.  Also ticking upwards are global greenhouse gas emissions, parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere and the likely degree...

November 21, 2022

Guest contribution

SDG Lab Interview: Dr. Stephen Jackson, UN Resident Coordinator in Kenya

Check out this interview by our partner, the SDG Lab, with Dr. Stephen Jackson, UN Resident Coordinator in Kenya, who discusses the challenges the country is facing in terms of development and how sus...

SDG Lab
October 6, 2022

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Pipeline Builder Partnership: Interview with John Hendra

Over the past weeks, and in the lead up to Building Bridges Week 2022, the SDG Lab has been running a series of interviews looking at sustainable finance from the perspectives of four people involved ...

SDG Lab
September 29, 2022

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Yofi Grant: “Our Development Agenda is already Aligned with the SDGs and Has Been for a Long Time”

The West African country of Ghana is the focus of a pilot of the Pipeline Builder, a partnership between SDG Lab at the United Nations in Geneva and Ground_Up Project, a Swiss-based impact finance adv...

SDG Lab
September 27, 2022

Guest contribution

How to Guarantee Debt Sustainability while Protecting the Environment

Can debt restructuring episodes used to promote climate friendly policies either through the issuance of green bonds or by attaching climate friendly conditions (in terms of mitigation, adaptation, or...

Swiss Lab for Sustainable Finance (SL4SF)
September 26, 2022

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Energy Transition: a Complex but Compelling Challenge

Reaching net-zero targets will require major investment and concerted political will. BloombergNEF (BNEF) estimates this investment at USD 92–173 trillion over the next three decades, of which US...

Marc Elliott - Energy Transition Specialist, UBP - Union Bancaire Privée
September 23, 2022

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Interview with Brindusa Burrows: “We simply cannot afford to not invest in the SDGs in emerging markets”

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in developing countries. Investing in their ability to contribute to the SDGs is key to our future. Th...

SDG Lab
September 20, 2022

Guest contribution

Solving Plastic Pollution from an Investor Perspective

Plastic is ubiquitous in our life. Look around and you will find all kinds of materials that are made from plastic such as smartphones or food packaging. Plastic’s versatility, lightweight, and low-co...

September 19, 2022