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IFF Sustainable Development Council

IFF Sustainable Development Council
The IFF, with the support from the UN and related international institutes and renowned financial organizations, has established the IFF Sustainable Development Council, which aims to promote global sustainable development and practice the action plan of a comprehensive sustainable development community. Vision on Comprehensive Sustainable Development, New Capital, New Value, New World, the IFF invites global financial leaders, public and private elites and officials to the council. It is an experimental community for comprehensive and sustainable development that combines actions on cultural heritage, ecological protection and poverty alleviation.

IFF Global Green Finance Award

The 4^th IFF Global Green Finance Award
2023-06-05
The International Finance Forum (IFF) will start accepting applications for the annual IFF Global Green Finance Award, on June 5, 2023, which is also World Environment Day.
Echoing the theme of World Environment Day, "Only One Earth", which stresses the need to change through policy changes and our choices to live in harmony with nature sustainably, the IFF Global Green Finance Award is targeting applicants offering green financial solutions that promote the transformation of economic growth modes, contribute to pollution prevention and control and address climate change, as well as improve energy efficiency, energy conservation and emission reduction. This year's award is a global call for innovations and application practices in policy, system, industry, services, technology and talent building.

The 3^rd IFF Global Green Finance Award
2022-06-05
The IFF started the annual IFF Global Green Finance Award selection on June 5, World Environment Day, which echoes the theme “Only One Earth”, which stresses the need to change through policy changes and choices of living in harmony with nature. The IFF green finance award targets to reward applicants offering green financial solutions to promote the transformation of economic growth modes, contribute to pollution prevention and control and address climate change, energy efficiency, energy conservation and emission reductions.

The 2^nd IFF Global Green Finance Award
2021-12-4
The International Finance Forum (IFF), known as the F20 (Finance 20), upholds the spirit of “Comprehensive and sustainable development – New capital, new value, and new world“. The IFF kicked off the second IFF Global Green Finance Award in September 2021. Leveraging on global networks and platforms, IFF is committed to establishing partnerships worldwide via exchanges and dialogue with governments, enterprises and civil society to promote the development of green finance and foster green growth. The United Nations and many other international organizations highly praised the award. Based on the success of last year, the 2nd IFF Global Green Finance Award includes 10 Annual Awards for institutions and 10 Innovation Awards for innovative projects.

The IFF Global Green Finance Innovation Award
2020-11-21
With population growth, rapid economic development and a significant increase in energy consumption, green growth has become the trend in the world. The IFF Global Green Finance Innovation Award aims to recognize and reward innovative solutions in global green finance. Relying on the IFF's network and platform, the award will help deepen international exchanges and cooperation in green finance, promote successful experiences and best practices in green finance development, and contribute to the implementation of the concept of sustainable development and the achievement of its global goals.

The Green Finance Working Group

The Green Finance Working Group (GFWG)
Goldman Sachs and the International Finance Forum (IFF) launched the GFWG in December 2021 at the 18th IFF Annual Global Conference. The GFWG will provide a platform for companies to exchange and develop ideas on leveraging green finance innovations and help advance the world’s transition to a low-carbon economy. The Paulson Institute and a decade of leading international companies from China, the US and the EU in energy, transportation, finance, automobile and retail industries have joined the group.

The Global Green Growth Centre

The Global Green Growth Centre (GGGC)
The GGGC is an innovative research institute established by the IFF to support the Green Growth Fund (GGF), and was created in line with the IFF's mission of Comprehensive Sustainable Development, New Capital, New Value, New World. The GGGC will conduct research on promoting green growth, climate investment and will support dialogue and extensive cooperation with governments, enterprises and civil society on financial services for climate change, biodiversity conservation, the Belt and Road Initiative. The GGGC also committed to provide innovative solutions to the global sustainable development goals.

The Green Growth Fund

The Green Growth Fund (GGF)
Established in June 2017, the GGF got support from the Nansha Administrative Committee of China (Guangdong) Free Trade Zone and was sponsored by the IFF and SRIA. Being a public investment fund established for the GGGC, the fund aims at green, technology and finance. The GGF cooperates with Nansha International Financial Island on building a green fund town and the supporting platform of green growth and climate investment of Nansha International Financial Island, which provides one-stop green finance and data information services.

The Global Green Finance Development Index and Country Rankings

The Global Green Finance Development Index and Country Rankings
IFF started to launch the Global Green Finance Development Index (GGFDI) along with country rankings in 2021. The GGFDI is jointly developed by the IFF and the Central University of Finance and Economics in China. It is a quantitative measure of progress in developing green finance at the country level and focuses on three areas, policy and strategy, product and market, and international cooperation. The GGFDI provides rankings in green finance development of the world’s 55 largest economies as of the end of 2020.