Frameworks to help you navigate your sustainable finance journey.
Resource Hub – Frameworks or principles
Explore key frameworks or principles that guide financial professionals. The image below provides an overview of these, explaining what they are, as well as when and why to use them. The table below offers an overview of the main frameworks relevant for the field. You can filter by target audience, themes, or search directly using keywords. For the best experience, we recommend accessing this page on a laptop and viewing it in full-screen mode.
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| wdt_ID | Name | Description | Targets | Themes | Members / AUM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2X Challenge Financing for Women | Unlock resources that will help advance women’s economic empowerment and gender equality. | Financial Institutions | Diversity & Inclusion, Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment | NA |
| 2 | A Legal Framework For Impact | Analyse how investors can manage their fiduciary and sustainability impact duties and what happens if they are in conflict. | Investors | Impact Investing, Sustainable Finance | 539 / NA |
| 3 | Asset Owner Diversity Charter | Formalise a set of actions to improve diversity, in all forms, across the investment industry. | Asset Owners | Diversity & Inclusion, Justice | 26 / £1 tn |
| 4 | Biodiversity Footprint for Financial Institutions (BFFI) | An impact assessment approach developed to enable financial institutions integrate biodiversity impact into their investment decisions. | Financial Institutions | Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Environment | NA |
| 5 | CDSB framework for reporting environmental and climate change information | Approach for reporting environmental and climate change information in mainstream reports, such as annual reports, 10-K filing, or integrated reports. | Companies, Financial Institutions | Accounting, Climate Disclosure, Environment | NA |
| 6 | Equator Principles (EPs) | Minimum requirements to determine, assess and manage environmental and social risks in projects financing. | Financial Institutions, Infrastructures, Organisations Project Finance | Environment Risk, Social Risk | 128 / NA |
| 7 | European Microfinance Platform | Assess the environmental performance of financial services providers and other stakeholders in green inclusive finance and defines action plans to improve. | Academia, Financial Institutions | Microfinance | 95 / NA |
| 8 | GHG Protocol for Project Accounting (GHG Project Protocol) | Quantify the greenhouse gas benefits of climate change mitigation projects. | Organisations Project Finance | Accounting, GHG Emissions | NA |
| 9 | Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) | Provides a set of goals and targets aiming to catalyze and enable urgent and transformative action in our societies’ relationship with biodiversity by 2030. | Financial Institutions | Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Environment | NA |
| 10 | Green / Social / Sustainability linked Loan Principles (GLP, SLP, SLLP) | Promote integrity in the development of the loan market by clarifying how to categorize loans as green / social / or sustainability linked. | Financial Institutions, Green Loans, Social Loans, Sustainability-linked Loans | Environment, Social, Sustainable Finance | NA |
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