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Sustainable Investment Ensuring Economic Resilience and Unlocking New Growth Opportunities

  • Report

  • 43 Pages
  • December 2023
  • Region: Global
  • Frost & Sullivan
  • ID: 5928328

An Accelerated Sustainability-driven World Economy Could be Worth $221.41 Trillion by 2030

In a rapidly evolving economic and geopolitical landscape, climate change, environmental preservation, and sustainable development have gained importance on the global policy stage. The objectives outlined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement offer extensive guidance for transitioning toward a green, low-carbon global economy. Realizing these ambitious net-zero goals necessitates immediate, comprehensive, and unprecedented actions by policymakers to catapult a stable flow of substantial investment toward sustainable industries and practices.

The Green Taxonomy framework, being rapidly adopted across major countries around the world, has the potential to steer capital toward high-value and sustainable sectors, ultimately reducing economic reliance on natural resources, limiting the degree of the polycrisis, and enhancing both the magnitude and sustainability of economic growth.

This thought leadership piece is crucial as critical policy elements, such as green taxonomy, provide standardized frameworks to identify environmentally sustainable activities and investments. In an era of pressing climate and environmental challenges, it enables governments, businesses, and investors to make informed decisions that support the transition to a sustainable, low-carbon economy. Sustainable finance drives capital toward green initiatives, fosters innovation, and bolsters the resilience of financial systems, contributing to a more sustainable and prosperous future for society and the planet.

Table of Contents

Strategic Imperatives
  • Why is it Increasingly Difficult to Grow?
  • The Strategic Imperative 8™
  • The Impact of the Top 3 Strategic Imperatives on the Sustainability-Driven Economy
  • Growth Opportunities Fuel the Growth Pipeline Engine™
  • Correlation Between Economic Resilience and Sustainability
  • Correlation Between Economic Resilience and Sustainability - An Overview
  • Growth Drivers
  • Growth Restraints
  • Why are Economic Resilience Strategies Important?
  • Framework of Assessing Macroeconomic Resilience
  • Measuring Economic Resilience and Sustainability - Methodology
Correlation Between Economic Resilience and Sustainability
  • Nominal GDP Under Different Sustainability Scenarios
Investment Needs to Attain Sustainability
  • Countries Off Track in their SDGs
  • Financing Gap to Meet the Sustainability Agenda
  • Sustainable Finance - Present Market and Outlook
  • Sustainable Finance Policy Priorities
  • Sustainable Finance Policy Pivot in Key Countries
Impact of Sustainability on Key Industries
  • Impact of Sustainability Across Key Industries
Growth Opportunity Universe
  • Growth Opportunity 1: Net-zero Manufacturing Facilities
  • Growth Opportunity 2: Circular Economy and Sustainable Logistics
  • Growth Opportunity 3: Residential Solar PV Systems
  • Growth Opportunity 4: Biogas Upgrading Technologies for RNG Conversion
  • Growth Opportunity 5: ESG Reporting
Appendix
  • Country Classification - High Income and Upper-middle Income
  • Country Classification - Lower-middle Income and Low Income
  • List of Exhibits