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Read more at: Unhedgeable risk: How climate change sentiment impacts investment

Unhedgeable risk: How climate change sentiment impacts investment

November 2015 – This report analyses how shifts in market sentiment induced by awareness of future climate risks could impact global financial markets in the short term.


Read more at: Banking and Sustainability: Time for Convergence

Banking and Sustainability: Time for Convergence

September 2015 – A policy briefing on the links between financial stability and environmental sustainability.


Read more at: Insurance regulation for sustainable development: Protecting human rights against climate risks and natural hazards

Insurance regulation for sustainable development: Protecting human rights against climate risks and natural hazards

July 2015 – This report analyses the role of insurance regulation in protecting the basic human rights of life, livelihood and shelter against natural hazards and climate risk. Effective insurance regulation facilitates access to insurance (both traditional and alternative) as a means to increase communities’ resilience, fulfil related human rights duties of state and non-state actors and support the UN Sustainable Development Goals.


Read more at: Rewiring the Economy: Ten tasks, ten years

Rewiring the Economy: Ten tasks, ten years

July 2015, Updated November 2017 – Rewiring the Economy is CISL’s ten-year plan to lay the foundations for a sustainable economy. It is built on ten interconnected tasks, delivered by leaders across business, government and finance. Rewiring shows how these tasks can be tackled co-operatively to build an economy that encourages sustainable business practices, delivering the social and environmental progress demanded by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).


Read more at: Policy brief: Insurance regulation for sustainable development

Policy brief: Insurance regulation for sustainable development

POLICY BRIEF Insurance regulation for sustainable development Protecting human rights against climate risk and natural hazards Climate risks and natural hazards are a growing threat to the basic human rights of life, livelihood and shelter in communities worldwide. In 2013 alone, three times as...


Read more at: Effective regulation for mutual and co-operative insurers can help protect human rights against natural hazards

Effective regulation for mutual and co-operative insurers can help protect human rights against natural hazards

May 2015 – Effective insurance regulation promotes financial inclusion and supports people’s basic rights of life, livelihood and shelter. Disruptive insurance regulation, or no regulation at all, deprives the poorest people in our world from this protection. Mutual and co-operative providers of microinsurance are very aware of the sharp reality that inclusive insurance, insurance that reaches all strata of our societies, can only thrive with adequate regulation.


Read more at: Food Security – Closing the food gap: opportunities for investment?

Food Security – Closing the food gap: opportunities for investment?

15 April 2015 – ‘Food Security: Closing the food gap: opportunities for investment?’ investigates three particular categories of food security solutions that can actively contribute to sustainable food security. A focus on postharvest losses illustrates the differing profiles of solutions in developed and developing countries. Biotechnology, especially the area of GM seeds, is an issue that inspires confusion and hot debate. Water management was selected because it is closely tied to climate change, and critical to human health.


Read more at: Financing the Future of Energy

Financing the Future of Energy

2 March 2015 – The ‘Financing the Future of Energy’ report launched yesterday at the Global Financial Markets Forum in Abu Dhabi, setting out the changing nature of the global energy system over the next decade and highlighting the growing demand for sustainable energy in the Gulf region.


Read more at: How do Banks Finance Commodity Supply Chains?

How do Banks Finance Commodity Supply Chains?

21 January 2015 – How do Banks Finance Commodity Supply Chains? And how could they support the growth of sustainable production?


Read more at: The Future in Practice: The State of Sustainability Leadership

The Future in Practice: The State of Sustainability Leadership

December 2012 – The State of Sustainability Leadership is the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)’s annual collection of ideas and research into how business and policy leaders are tackling the challenges of the 21st century.