Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Environmental Protection
• Public Health
• Human Rights

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Lack of clean water resources and sanitation facilities
• Air pollution
• Production and consumption of toxic substances
• Disposal of hazardous wastes
• Destruction of natural resources
• Stratospheric ozone loss
• Climate change
• Biodiversity loss

Mitigation Strategies

• Adoption of international treaties and conventions (e.g., Basel Convention, Stockholm Convention, Kyoto Protocol, Montreal Protocol)
• Implementation of national environmental legislations and standards
• Development of water management strategies
• Introduction of clean fuels and cooking stoves
• Waste minimization and recycling programs
• Remediation of contaminated water sources
• Public health campaigns and education programs

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks

• Heat waves
• Floods
• Droughts
• Sea-level rise

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Environmental Sustainability
• Equity

Environmental Achievements

• Reduced carbon intensity of production globally
• Significant progress in curbing air pollution
• Several developing countries transitioned from deforestation to reforestation

Social Achievements

• Significant progress in girls’ primary and secondary education
• Narrowing health inequalities globally
• Improvements in education opportunities globally

Governance Achievements

• Increased share of countries that are democracies
• Improved governance of the Climate Investment Funds towards more equitable voice and participation
• Many countries enacted policy targets or promotion policies for renewable energy

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Widespread environmental degradation
• Income inequality worsened
• Disparities in health and education remain significant
• Climate change
• Land degradation
• Deforestation
• Overexploitation of water resources
• Overfishing
• Pollution
• Disequalizing effects of extreme weather events
• Power inequalities
• Gender inequality

Mitigation Strategies

• Investments that improve equity (e.g., renewable energy, water and sanitation, reproductive healthcare)
• Stronger accountability and democratic processes
• Community management
• Inclusive institutions
• Policies that integrate equity concerns
• Empowering people to bring about change
• Innovative financing schemes
• Addressing perverse incentives and market distortions
• Increasing accountability in global environmental governance
• Community-based disaster risk mapping
• Progressive distribution of reconstructed public assets
• Targeted cash transfers
• Employment schemes
• Weather-based crop insurance
• Asset transfers
• Expanding reproductive choice
• Supporting community management of natural resources
• Conserving biodiversity while promoting equity
• Equitable and adaptive disaster responses
• Innovative social protection

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks

• Extreme weather events
• Flooding
• Droughts
• Sea level rise

Opportunities

• Renewable energy development