CIAO DATE: 12/2014
October 2014
Centre for International Governance Innovation
In recent years, a plurality of different governance initiatives has emerged that are designed to expand the disclosure of environmental risk within financial markets. The emergence of these initiatives represents an important policy development, and it has the potential to reduce environmental risk within the financial sector by incentivizing investments in sustainable economic activity capable of long-term value creation. Unfortunately, environmental risk disclosure has yet to be assessed as a field of governance activity in addition to its potential effectiveness in improving disclosure within financial markets.
Resource link: The Environmental Risk Disclosure Regime: Navigating Complexity in Global Financial Markets [PDF] - 3.6M