The third iteration of the UNEP FI Asset Management Working Group’s ground-breaking “Materiality  Series,” which started in 2004 with “The Materiality of Social, Environmental and Corporate  Governance Issues to Equity Pricing” and followed in 2006 by “Show Me The Money: Linking  Environmental, Social and Governance Issues to Company Value”, exclusively tackles climate  change.

This landmark report by the UNEP FI Insurance Working Group is a testament to the fundamental role of the insurance industry in sustainable development, which is not a choice, but the only option.

This landmark publication by the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative on the fiduciary responsibility of institutional investors continues the debate initiated by the 2005 ‘Freshfields Report’ of UNEP FI that explored the complex relationship between fiduciary law and environmental, social and governance issues in investment policymaking and practice.

Introduction of participatory budgeting can be a sound vehicle in realizing good governance and fighting poverty. It is a mechanism that involves elected leaders, public officials, service providers, and non-state actors – civil society, private sector and development partners.

This series is designed to cover all aspects of sound financial management for local governments in developed and developing countries and economies in transition. Concepts of good governance, transparency and accountability are woven into the text of every chapter, and the needs and potential obstacles to greater decentralization and democracy are highlighted. Each volume is self-contained with its own Trainer’s Guide, exercises and web resources.

The degree of success and efficiency of housing production and delivery depends on the prevailing legal, institutional and financial framework. Housing finance credit mechanisms are generally weak in most developing countries because of low-income levels, weak regulatory and legal framework provisions for land title and tenure system, absence of effective laws governing credit and absence of credit rating systems.