Key Publications
| Title/Link | Author/Group | Year | Nature and/or Climate | Intended Audience | Type of publication (Article, Academic Article, Report, White Paper, etc) | Category of mechanism (Generate, Deliver, Realign, Avoid) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Call for Action: Climate change as a source of financial risk | NGFS (Network for Greening the Financial System) | 2019 | climate | central banks; policymakers | Realign | ||
| Biodiversity: Finance and the economic and business case for action | OECD | 2019 | nature | G7 Environment ministers; framing for CBD 2020 | Realign | ||
| Business4Nature | 2019 | ||||||
| Fitch adds environmental risk metric to mortgage-backed securities ratings | CNBC News | 2019 | nature | ||||
| Global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services | IPBES Diaz, Settle, & Brondizio | 2019 | nature | policymakers | Realign | ||
| Into the wild: Integrating nature into investment strategies | AXA and WWF-France | 2019 | nature | G7 Environment ministers; finance instutions | Realign | ||
| Making finance serve nature | Finance Watch (Ludovic Suttor-Sorel) | 2019 | nature | policymakers | Realign | ||
| Sustainability and Satellites: New frontiers in soverign debt investing | Investec Asset Management and WWF | 2019 | nature | sovereign debt investors | |||
| Sustainability Improvement Loans: a risk-based approach to changing capital requirements in favor of sustainability outcomes | 2019 | ||||||
| The Sustainable Development Goals and the future of corporate reporting | Corporate Reporting Dialogue | 2019 | general | ||||
| Underwriting environmental, social and governance risks in non-life insurance business | UNEP & PRI | 2019 | nature | insurance industry | Realign | ||
| Values at risk? Sustainability risks and goals in the Dutch financial sector | Schellekens & van Toor | 2019 | nature | finance institutions | Realign | ||
| Measuring and managing environmental exposure: A business sector analysis of natural capital risk | Allianz | 2018 | nature | businesses | Realign | ||
| Aiming higher to bend the curve of biodiversity loss | Mace et al. | 2018 | nature | academics | Realign | ||
| Climate change and the macro-economy: a critical review | Bank of England (Batten, Sandra) | 2018 | climate | economists, central banks | Realign | ||
| Climate change challenges for central banks and financial regulators | Campiglio, Dafermos, Monnin, Ryna-Collins, Schotten & Tanaka | 2018 | climate | researchers, banks | Realign | ||
| Connecting finance and natural capital: A supplement to the natural capital protocol | Natural Capital Coalition & Natural Capital Finance Alliance | 2018 | nature | ESG analysts, environmental managers, etc working in financial institutions | Realign | ||
| Exploring natural capital opportunities, risks and exposure: A practical guide for financial institutions | Natural Capital Finance Alliance and UN Environment WCMC | 2018 | nature | finance institutions | Realign | ||
| Global Climate Change Analysis 2018 | CDP | 2018 | |||||
| Global Risks 2018: Fractures, fears and failures | World Economic Forum | 2018 | nature | businesses | Realign | ||
| Integrating natural capital in risk assessments: A step-by-step guide for banks | Natural Capital Finance Alliance & Pricewaterhouse Coopers | 2018 | nature | finance institutions | Realign | ||
| Making Waves: Aligning the financial system with sustainable development | UNEP Inquiry (Zadek and Robins) | 2018 | nature | policymakers | Realign | ||
| S&P Global Ratings’ Proposal For Environmental, Social, And Governance (ESG) Evaluations | S&P | 2018 | nature | businesses, FIs | Realign | ||
| Stranded Assets and the Enviroment | Caldecott, Ben | 2018 | nature | researchers | Realign | ||
| The private sector’s climate change risk and adaptation blind spots | Goldstein, Turner, Gladstone, & Hole | 2018 | climate | researchers | Realign | ||
| Environmental Risks Global Heatmap Overview | Moody's | 2018 | nature | investors | Realign | ||
| Advancing TCFD guidance on physical climate risks and opportunities | Four Twenty Seven and Acclimatise for EBRD | 2018 | climate | regulators | Realign | ||
| Better Business Better World | Business & Sustainable Development Commission | 2017 | |||||
| Enhancing environmental risk assessment in financial descision-making | Green Finance Study Group [GFSG] | 2017 | nature | public institutions | Realign | ||
| GMAP | IFC | 2017 | Financial intermediaries | ||||
| How Does S&P Global Ratings Incorporate Environmental, Social, And Governance Risks Into Its Ratings Analysis | S&P | 2017 | |||||
| Implementing the Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (Annex to 'Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures) | TCFD | 2017 | climate | businesses and finance institutions | Realign | ||
| Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures | TCFD | 2017 | climate | businesses | Realign | ||
| Biodiversity and ecosystem services: the business case for managing risk and creating opportunity | The Biodiversity Consultancy | 2017 | nature | businesses | Realign | ||
| SHIFTING PERCEPTIONS: ESG, CREDIT RISK AND RATINGS | UNEP PRI | 2017 | |||||
| Net Positive Impact on biodiversity: The business case | IUCN | 2016 | nature | businesses | Realign | ||
| Economics of Land Degradation Initiative: Report for the private sector. Sustainable land management – A business opportunity. | Cornell, A., Weier, J., Stewart, N., Spurgeon, J., Etter, H., Thomas, R., Favretto, N, Chilombo, A., van Duivenbooden, N., van Beek, C., and de Ponti, T / GIZ | 2016 | |||||
| ‘Climate value at risk’ of global financial assets | Dietz, Bowen, Dixon, & Gradwell | 2016 | climate | researchers, businesses | Realign | ||
| Let’s talk about the weather: the impact of climate change on central banks | Bank of England (Batten, Sowerbutts and Tanaka) | 2016 | climate | economists, central banks | Realign | ||
| Natural Capital Protocol Principles and Framework | Natural Capital Coalition | 2016 | nature | organizations, businesses | Realign | ||
| Natural Capital Protocol | Natural Capital Coalition | 2016 | nature | organizations, businesses | Realign | ||
| Statement of Common Principles of Materiality of the Corporate Reporting Dialogue | Corporate Reporting Dialogue | 2016 | nature | investors, regulators | Realign | ||
| Stranded Assets in Palm Oil Production: A case study of Indonesia | UNEP/SSEE Morel, Friedman, Tulloch, Caldecott | 2016 | nature | researchers, practitioners | Realign | ||
| A Framework for Protected Area Asset Management | UNEP/SSEE Paul Jepson, Caldecott, Milligan, Chen | 2015 | nature | decision-makers, investors | Realign | ||
| Breaking the tragedy of the horizon – climate change and financial stability | Carney, Mark (Bank of England; with Phillips, Rhys and Weymarn, Ian de) | 2015 | climate | insurance/finance institutions | Realign | ||
| Linking forest ecosystem services to corporate sustainability disclosure: A conceptual analysis | D’Amato, Li, Rekola, Toppinen, & Lu | 2015 | nature | researchers | Realign | ||
| The cost of inaction: Recognising the value at risk from climate change | Economist Intelligence Unit | 2015 | climate | FIs | Realign | ||
| Toward a risk register for natural capital? | Mace et al | 2015 | nature | policymakers, researchers | Realign | ||
| Unhedgeable risk: How climate change sentiment impacts investment | University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) | 2015 | |||||
| Environmental and Social Risks | ERBD | 2014 | nature | ERBD's financial intermediaries | Realign | ||
| IPCC AR5 Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability | IPCC | 2014 | climate | policy makers, governments, researchers, other stakeholders | Realign | ||
| Financial Dynamics of the Environment: Risks, Impacts, and Barriers to Resilience Working Paper for the UNEP Inquiry | UNEP/SSEE Caldecott and McDaniels | 2014 | nature | finance sector | Realign | ||
| Risky Business: The economic risks of climate change in the United States | Gordon | 2014 | climate | policy makers, governments, stakeholders | Realign | ||
| The New Climate Economy Better Growth, Better Climate | The New Climate Economy | 2014 | climate | government, businesses | Realign | ||
| Opportunity Lost: Mitigating risk and making the most of your land assets. An assessment of the exposure of business to land degradation risk and the opportunities inherent in sustainable land management | ELD Initiative | 2013 | nature | businesses | Realign | ||
| Identifying natural capital risk and materiality | Hewitt et al. | 2013 | nature | organizations | Realign | ||
| Natural Capital at Risk: The Top 100 Externalities of Business | Trucost | 2013 | nature | companies, investors, governments, TEEB business coalition | Realign | ||
| Private-sector adaptation to climate risk | Surminski | 2013 | climate | researchers | Realign | ||
| Weathering the storm: Building business resilience to climate change | Center for Climate and Energy Solutions | 2013 | climate | policy makers, organizations | Realign | ||
| Harnessing nature to help people adapt to climate change | Jones, Hole, & Zavaleta | 2012 | nature | researchers | Realign | ||
| Is natural capital a material issue? | Bonner et al. | 2012 | nature | CFOs and accountants | Realign | ||
| Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX report) | IPCC Field et al eds. | 2012 | climate | policymakers, researchers | Realign | ||
| Risk ready: New approaches to environmental and social change | PwC | 2012 | nature | Businesses and finance institutions | Realign | ||
| The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review: Guidelines for Identifying Business Risks and Opportunities Arising from Ecosystem Change. Version 2.0. [ESR] | Hanson, C., J. Ranganathan, C. Iceland, and J. Finisdore / WRI, Meridian Institute, WBCSD | 2012 | nature | businesses | Realign | ||
| The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Business and Enterprise | TEEB | 2012 | nature | businesses and finance institutions | Realign | ||
| Universal Ownership: Why environmental externalities matter to institutional investors | UNEP FI & PRI | 2011 | nature | Institutional investors | Realign | ||
| Biodiversity and Business Risk | WEF | 2010 | nature | produced for participants in biodiversity discussions at WEF annual meeting | Realign | ||
| The cost of policy inaction | Braat & ten Brink | 2008 | nature | European Commission, for Review on the Economics of Biodiversity Loss | Realign | ||
| A “Silent Spring” for the Financial System? Exploring Biodiversity-Related Financial Risks in France https://publications.banque-france.fr/en/silent-spring-financial-system-exploring-biodiversity-related-financial-risks-france | Svartzman Romain, Espagne Etienne, Gauthey Julien, Hadji-Lazaro Paul, Salin Mathilde, Allen Thomas, Berger Joshua, Calas Julien, Godin Antoine, Vallier Antoine | 2021 | Nature | ||||
| The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital | Costanza et al. * | 1997 | nature | researchers | Realign |