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About the OECD Forum on Green Finance and Investment :

Achieving climate objectives and a broader set of environmental objectives linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including in support of biodiversity and water security, will require:

Domestic ambition to rapidly and efficiently decarbonise and enhance resilience in all sectors, and scale up ambition on other environmental objectives, including biodiversity and water;
Well-aligned policies across the whole of government;
Strong and consistent signalling and well-targeted policy interventions to engage and mobilise industry and private finance, combined with a conducive investment environment;
Increased global co-operation between state and non-state actors, including financial and technical support for developing countries; and
Monitoring of progress in green investment and financing and of environmental outcomes.

Policies need to be cost-effective and supported by robust, evidence-based analysis, and reflect an understanding of the perspectives and constraints of investors, who will be the engine of the transition to a green and sustainable economy.

This event brings together leading actors from the green and sustainable finance and investment community to promote effective engagement, collaboration and action on green finance and investment. This includes institutional investors, asset managers, ministries of finance, central banks and other financial regulators and supervisors, environment policy makers, commercial and investment banks, multilateral development banks, green investment banks, corporations, civil society, philanthropies and more.

Agenda

The Centre seeks to produce high-quality policy-oriented research and analysis on green finance and investment. A key objective of the Centre is to address policy and market challenges and support the scaling up of green finance and investment. The Centre taps into the private, public and philanthropic sectors for cutting-edge expertise and analysis as well as access to the latest innovations and initiatives in a quickly evolving area. This enriches the Centre’s work and reach, contributes to its analysis, and provides direct insights into the policy making process. The Centre seeks to support developed, emerging, and developing economies by pursuing work in the key areas of:

strategies, policies, and actions for investment in the low-carbon, climate-resilient transition, as well as broader environmental issues like water and biodiversity
financing for green investment, including for climate change, water and biodiversity
tracking progress in green finance and investment

Effective implementation of key OECD standards such as the Anti-Bribery Convention, the MNE Guidelines and the Principles of Corporate Governance is critical to ensuring trust in business and promoting a level playing field for companies.

Angel Gurría

OECD Secretary-General

Key takeaways

The key messages from the Forum focused on the need to take a more cross-sectoral and collaborative approach to scale-up finance for the SDGs and in particular, sustainable infrastructure. Some of the key messages from speakers at the event included the following:

Long-lasting capacity

Entities like green banks can build long-lasting capacity and channel domestic capital towards green investment to serve the long-term sustainable development agenda.

Knowledge sharing

Knowledge sharing and collaboration across sectors is key to realise inter-dependencies and devise holistic solutions. It is important to stop working in silos and provide sufficient and comparable data, standards, definitions and benchmarks to integrate sustainability in investment decisions.

Successful transition

For a successful transition, it is not only necessary to develop a pipeline of green assets but also choke off the pipeline of brown assets in parallel. Simply adding a green economy on top of a brown economy is not the solution.

Investors

For investors to integrate ESG factors in their portfolios, it is important to have quality and not just quantity of data. As more data on sustainable assets becomes available, it is important to carefully identify and use relevant and material data for analysis.