# Sustainable Finance

Enabling the transformation of the global financial system and architecture.


## We help enable the transformation of the global financial system to support climate and nature action, strengthen long-term value creation and contribute to sustainable economic growth.

By connecting private financiers across the investment value chain, including banks, investors, insurers, asset owners and asset managers, alongside multilateral development banks, development finance institutions and policy-makers, the Sustainable Finance Pillar helps advance cooperation on the decarbonization of heavy industry, food systems transformation, nature-positive growth and support for the net-zero transition in emerging economies.The Sustainable Finance Pillar engages financiers who want to contribute to climate and nature priorities across developed and emerging economies through a range of initiatives and communities.


## Our initiatives


### 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.

[Learn more ](https://initiatives.weforum.org/financing-transition-community/transitionfinance)


### 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.

[Learn more](https://initiatives.weforum.org/financing-transition-community/financingfood)


### 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.

[Learn more](https://initiatives.weforum.org/financing-transition-community/financingnature)


## Our impact in mobilizing investment for emerging markets

Design de-risking mechanisms and blended finance solutions to scale climate and nature investments across developed and emerging economies.


### 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.

[Learn more](https://www.weforum.org/publications/china-s-climate-challenge-financing-the-transition-to-net-zero/)


### Financing the Transition in Brazil

Achieving Brazil’s climate transition by 2030 will require BRL 1 trillion ($200 billion). To attract and facilitate this investment, the country must establish robust financing structures, with new new financial instruments.

[Learn more](https://www.weforum.org/publications/finding-pathways-financing-innovation-tackling-the-brazilian-transition-challenge/)


### Financing the Transition in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries

The transition of GCC economies towards sustainability requires more than $100 billion in annual investment. Securing this capital and advancing the region’s climate goals will necessitate innovative financing mechanisms and frameworks tailored to the GCC context.


### Mobilizing Investments for Clean Energy in Emerging Economies (MICEE)

Annual investment must increase from under $150 billion to over $1 trillion in the next decade to keep the world on track for net-zero, according to a recent IEA report produced with the World Economic Forum and the World Bank.

[Learn more](https://initiatives.weforum.org/micee/home)


## Our insights

[Discover more](https://initiatives.weforum.org/financing-transition-community/insights)


### Nature Positive: Corporate Assessment Guide for Financial Institutions

This report supports financial institutions with the information needed to capitalize on emerging nature opportunities and avert nature risks using data available today.

[Read the report](https://www.weforum.org/publications/nature-positive-corporate-assessment-guide-for-financial-institutions/)


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

This briefing paper make sense of the “nature finance” landscape and highlight crucial resources.

[Read the briefing paper](https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Financing_Nature-Positive_CEO_Briefing_2024.pdf)


### 100 Million Farmers: Breakthrough Models for Financing a Sustainability Transition

A breakthrough model for financing and collaboration to support farmers and accelerate the transition to sustainable food production.

[Read the report](https://www.weforum.org/publications/100-million-farmers-breakthrough-models-for-financing-a-sustainability-transition/)


### Decarbonizing Brazil’s Steel, Aluminum, and Aviation Sectors

This reports focuses on efforts to decarbonize the country’s hard-to-abate steel, aluminium and aviation sectors.

[Read the report](https://www.weforum.org/publications/decarbonizing-brazil-s-steel-aluminium-and-aviation-sectors/)


### An initiative of the Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems

Creating a financial system that allocates capital to support planet, people, and communities.

[Discover the Centre](https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-financial-and-monetary-systems/home)


### Join the Sustainable Finance initiative

Join industry leaders in advancing sustainable finance solution.

[Get involved](https://initiatives.weforum.org/api/communities/v1/public/initiatives/site/page-redirect?initiative_id=696803a4-5a46-41a8-b65d-da3740fc4df8&page_id=9edf3127-39b0-4cd4-b2e0-513d7c5fdc52)