Today, growing public awareness of environmental and social issues is driving changes in consumer behavior, investment, and regulation. To help our clients succeed in this changing global environment, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has developed world-class environmental and social development expertise. Read more...

Additionally, IFC's Footprint Program ensures our business operations are consistent with how we do business, what we ask of our clients, and our commitment to sustainability and climate change.

Highlights

Emerging Risk: Impacts of Key Environmental Trends in Emerging Asia (added June 2009) A new series of reports from IFC and World Resources Institute (WRI) shines a spotlight on environmental risks and opportunities that will impact the financial performance of companies in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam and sounds the alarm that these risk and opportunities are overlooked by investors and companies in the region. Emerging Risk lays the groundwork for analysts to understand environmental issues as financially material, and for companies to see the financial benefits of reducing their environmental impact. Read more and download the publication... Undisclosed Risk: Corporate Environmental and Social Reporting in Emerging Asia (added June 2009) A new series of reports from IFC and World Resources Institute (WRI) shines a spotlight on environmental risks and opportunities that will impact the financial performance of companies in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam and sounds the alarm that these risk and opportunities are overlooked by investors and companies in the region. Undisclosed Risk focuses on corporate transparency on environmental risks, and lays the groundwork for understanding environmental disclosure and reporting in emerging markets through an investor lens. Read more and download the publication...

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