2 August 2012: The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), together with several private sector partners, and Tomorrow’s Company, a UK-based “think and do tank,” released a working paper on evaluating capital markets ability to drive sustainability. UNEP FI also invites interested parties to take part in a series of dialogues on the topic, scheduled throughout 2012-2013.

According to UNEP FI, the 36-page paper, titled “Tomorrow’s Capital Markets: A private invitation to work with Tomorrow’s Company to set new incentive structures for a sustainable world,” aims to begin the process of scrutinizing the effectiveness of the current incentives. The paper identifies the complexity of incentives faced by different actors along the investment chain, flagging fundamental challenges, from communication gaps to the lack of viable metric. [Publication: Tomorrow’s Capital Markets] [Tomorrow’s Company Website]