“Surviving or Thriving: The Options for Managing Climate Change”
“The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report paints a sombre picture for the world in terms of its current climate trajectory. In addition to a series of climate models, the report also incorporated a collection of scenarios, named Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), that explored a range of possible climate futures. These SSPs show how the choices being made by governments, corporations, investors and individuals are impacting the world’s climate trajectory and therefore represent essential inputs for future strategic planning.”
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Tech as a Force for Good Technology for a Secure, Sustainable and Superior Future
Technology could be the deciding factor in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals and in delivering human security for all. The ‘Capital as a Force for Good report described the seemingly insurmountable gap of up to US$135 trillion needed to fund the SDGs. Technology can change that equation and today’s technologists are at least as bold, innovative and resourceful as those that took man from agriculture to industrialization.
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Capitalism for a Secure and Sustainable Future, Report 2022
The total cost of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has also increased by up to 25% in the last year from US$116-US$142 to US$134-176 trillion. The rise has been driven by historic underfunding, requirements for achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions), a shortening window for achieving the goals, and high inflation that has spiked further following Russia’s war in Ukraine. While the finance industry is committing record amounts to funding the SDGs, on the current trajectory they will fail to be met by their 2030 deadlines, by decades in some cases.
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Capitalism for a Sustainable Future, Report 2021
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) face a financing gap that has soared to up to US$100 trillion in the wake of COVID-19 and other urgent global challenges. Finance industry leaders have significantly increased their engagement in this regard, committing a record US$9.5 trillion in sustainable financing to 2030.
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The Leading Financial Hubs for the Sustainable Age, Report 2021
The global finance industry today is dominated by a few key financial hubs, which concentrate much of the world’s financial activity and served as nerve centres for the global economy. During the next decade however, the global finance industry stands to be fundamentally transformed by a series of major transitions relating to sustainability, digital technology and to geopolitics. This report looks at how these transitions will impact global financial hubs, determining who will lead and who will drop in significance.
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Sustainability and Inclusion Creating a Race to the Top Among Leading Financial Institutions, Report 2021
In-depth engagements with finance industry leaders on the findings of the 2020 Capital as a Force for Good Report have confirmed the rising confidence, ambition and commitment to be a force for good by the most active participants leading the finance industry, with major institutions creating partnerships to accelerate their efforts to tackle increasingly complex and interrelated challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, problems which themselves are continuing to accelerate as well.
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Global Finance Industry Leaders Transforming Capitalism for a Sustainable Future, Report 2020
The finance industry, by nature of its privileged position in the allocation of global capital, can make a potentially disproportionate impact on addressing the world’s challenges and ensure the long-term sustainability of an economic system that has driven the world’s development and prosperity. The industry, and its leaders in particular, is taking an increasingly proactive position in addressing challenges for the common good, aligning its objectives with greater sustainable development and the SDGs in particular, and embracing a broader responsibility to stakeholders, thereby becoming an increasing ‘force for good’ in the world.
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Global Finance Industry Leaders Transforming Capitalism for a Sustainable Future, Infographics Report 2020
Infographic summary of the Capital as a Force for Good Report, 2020
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