The sustainable finance pillar of the Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems enables the transformation of the global financial system and architecture to encourage climate and nature action and to reinforce long-term value creation and economic growth.

Our mission

By engaging private financiers from across the investment value chain - banks, investors, insurers, asset owners and asset managers - alongside MDBs, DFIs as well as policy makers, the Sustainable Finance Pillar focuses on: decarbonization of heavy-industries, food systems transformation, designing nature-positive economic growth and supporting the net-zero transition in emerging economies.

The Sustainable Finance Pillar engages financiers interested to contribute to advance both climate and nature agendas, in developed as well as emerging economies, across different initiatives and communities.

Transition Finance for Industry Decarbonization

Design innovative financing mechanisms to mobilize capital in support of the commercial-scale adoption of decarbonization technologies in heavy-industrial and heavy-mobility sectors.

- Financing the Transition to a Net-Zero Future

- First Movers Coalition- Finance Pillar

- Industrial Clusters

Financing Food Systems Transformation

Define the role financiers can play to enable the food systems transformation and introduce innovative financial mechanisms to boost investment into sustainable solutions across the food value chain.

Financing the Nature Positive Transition

Enhance financing towards fostering a nature-positive transition, while advocating for the integration of nature-friendly solutions throughout operations and value chains.

Financing the Transition in China

China holds a critical role in achieving the targets of the Paris Agreement. A nuanced understanding of climate technologies and how to finance them in Greater China is critical to ensure the country can achieve its net-zero ambitions.

Financing the Transition in Brazil

Brazil, the fifth largest country in the world and the largest economy in Latin America, plays a critical role in the global fight against climate change. Achieving Brazil’s climate transition by 2030 will require BRL 1 trillion ($200 billion). To attract and facilitate this investment, Brazil must establish robust financing structures, with new new financial instruments.

Financing the Transition in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries

Transitioning the GCC economies towards sustainability necessitates substantial investment, estimated at over $100 billion annually. To secure this investment and enable the region's climate transition, innovative financing mechanisms and frameworks tailored to the unique circumstances of the GCC are imperative.

Mobilizing Investments for Clean Energy in Emerging Economies (MICEE)

From less than $ 150 billion to over $1 trillion per year, for the next decade, to put the world on track with net-zero targets, according to a recent report produced by the International Energy Agency, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the World Bank.

Transition Finance for Industry Decarbonization

Financing Food Systems Transformation

Financing the Nature Positive Transition

Financing the Transition in China

Financing the Transition in Brazil

Financing the Transition in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries

Mobilizing Investments for Clean Energy in Emerging Economies (MICEE)

Sustainable Finance

Our mission

Our initiatives

Financing Climate

Financing Nature

Blended Finance

Our insights

Financing the Nature-Positive Transition: Understanding the Role of Banks, Investors and Insurers

Decarbonizing Emerging Markets

100 Million Farmers: Breakthrough Models for Financing a Sustainability Transition

Decarbonizing Brazil’s Steel, Aluminum, and Aviation Sectors

Scaling Clean Technology Offtakes: A Corporate Playbook for Net Zero

Part of the Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems