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7th OECD Forum on Green Finance and Investment

This year’s Forum inevitably focuses on perspectives for green finance and investment in a COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 world. The pandemic has triggered a health and economic crisis of a magnitude never seen before.

OECD Forum on Green Finance and Investment

The 2020 edition of this event will take place virtually from 6-9 October 2020. This annual event convenes leading actors across the green finance community to help catalyse and support the transition to a green, low-emissions and climate-resilient global economy.

Developing Sustainable Finance Definitions and Taxonomies

2020 Symposium on Reinsurance Risk and Opportunity in Asia

This webinar will focus on the findings and lessons from a set of case studies on access to reinsurance and reinsurance oversight in Asian countries. This virtual event will be held via Zoom on 6-7 October 2020.

Leveraging the Role of Property Catastrophe Reinsurance Markets: The Case of India, Indonesia, Myanmar, and the Philippines

This report provides an overview of the insurance coverage available for catastrophe perils in India, Indonesia, Myanmar and the Philippines as well as the regulatory and supervisory frameworks in place to govern the use of reinsurance for managing exposure to catastrophe risks.

COVID-19 Government Financing Support Programmes for Businesses

The COVID-19 pandemic has provoked stress in financial markets that has severely strained access to credit for businesses, ranging from large corporates to SMEs. This note reviews various forms of government financing support programmes for businesses, and explores how they have been applied during the crisis.

OECD Webinar on Emerging Market Sovereign Debt in times of COVID-19

The purpose of this seminar was to gather a diverse panel of speakers to share their views on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on EM economies and sovereign debt markets, the core challenges sovereign debt managers are facing today and their response to rapidly changing market conditions.

Sustainable and resilient finance

29/09/2020 - The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted an urgent need to consider resilience in finance, both in the financial system itself and in the role played by capital and investors in making economic and social systems more dynamic and able to withstand external shocks. The 2020 OECD Business and Finance Outlook focuses on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors that are rapidly becoming a part of mainstream finance.

More efforts needed from governments, regulators and business to unlock full potential of sustainable finance

Governments and regulators should urgently work together to improve the data used for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, according to a new OECD report.

OECD Business and Finance Outlook 2020 - Sustainable and Resilient Finance