Shaping a Sustainable Financial System
Future-proofing global finance for a net-zero, nature-positive world
The financial system has a pivotal role to play in tackling climate change and environmental degradation. Its full potential must be harnessed to serve as an engine in the global economy’s transition towards a low carbon economy and sustainable development.
This policy brief sets out CDP's view of what a sustainable financial system should look like, the reasons
to review the current framework, and the main actions policymakers must take to achieve this goal. Accompanying it are a series of regional profiles from key CDP jurisdictions.
Below are a series of regional profiles: several real-world examples from key jurisdictions in which CDP operates, creating a snapshot of the sustainable finance policy landscape and highlighting the governance challenges to the development of more sustainable financial systems.