Sustainable business needs financing: check how the brazilian financial system is getting ready to it.

Las week we celebrated the launch of the new “sustainable development agenda that embodies the aspirations of people everywhere for lives of peace, security and dignity on a health planet” as Ban Ki-moon said.

All the 193 member states adopted the new agenda and now are committed to implement the 17 goals in your country. But how to implement it¿ we are always sharing initiatives, projects that can contribute to the achievement of the goals in 2030 and today I chose a study by FEBRABAN (Brazilian Federation of Banks) and GVces about the Brazilian Financial System and the Green Economy. The study presents two analyses: the ‘Current Financing for the Green Economy in Brazil’ and ‘The Brazilian Financial Sector Institutional Context in the Transition to Sustainable Development’.

Check the executive summary:

“In order to be able to elaborate proposals for channeling capitals from the Brazilian Financial Sector (SFN, in Portuguese) – both from credit and financing, and from investments – towards sustainable development, it was necessary to understand the institutional context to which the Green Economy belongs in the Brazilian Financial Sector. There is no such a thing as a sector operating in institutional vacuum, and it was necessary to understand connections between SFN regulatory framework and the Brazilian legal scenario when it comes to environmental protection, since such connections may act either as incentives or barriers to the goal desired. This analysis was also encouraged after the Brazilian Central Bank published, on April 25th, 2014, Resolution 4,327, that deals with financial institutions socio-environmental responsibility, listing guidelines that shall be observed in order for SFN institutions to establish and deploy Socio-environmental Responsibility policies. Thus, with the objective of understanding the SFN institutional framework concerning topics related to sustainability and encouraged by the content of Resolution 4,327, the scope of Study 1 focused exclusively on banks and their corresponding credit and financing activities. Also, due to recent legal doctrine and judicial reviews on the responsibility of banks in case of environmental damages, we chose to analyze environmental aspects in this study. Other approaches to SFN institutional aspects are possible and desirable – such as insurance and investments, and social issues analysis-, although they were not the aim of this work.

Also, in order to make suggestions on how to foster funds towards the Green Economy it was important to understand what resources are currently allocated in the so-called Green Economy and their enablers. It is necessary to have a reasonably clear starting point in order to assess it and propose ways to change it. This was the purpose of Study 2: quantitatively map resources allocated, on December 31st, 2013, in the Green Economy and their enablers. In order to make it possible, data collection methodologies were proposed for the segments analyzed: credit and financing (financial institutions, constitutional and non-reimbursable funds), investments (pension funds, investment managers, and private equity funds – PE funds) and insurance.

Thus, both Studies ‘The Brazilian Financial Sector Institutional Context in the Transition to Sustainable Development’ and ‘Current Financing for the Green Economy in Brazil’ should be read as a whole: while the former tries to figure out how the institutional environment can encourage SFN capital channeling to sustainable development, the latter lists amounts allocated to the Green Economy on December 31st, 2013, by SFN actors.

The Study ‘Brazilian Finances: a Strategic 2020 Agenda for Renewable Energy and Agriculture’, on the other hand, observes the real economy – focused on agriculture, renewable energy, biodiversity and cities – and analyzes what advances will be needed towards sustainable development in these sectors and topics and, within this discussion, how SFN can contribute to the transition to sustainability. Therefore, whereas the first two studies focus essentially on SFN, the third one analyzes the real economy and its relationship with SFN. Besides, the study also covers – although it is not exactly an economic sector –Cities, since they have been increasingly seen as a privileged locus for action and production of experiences when it comes to sustainability, as they concentrate growing populations, resources, economic activities and political leadership, showing greater agility and autonomy than at the State level. “

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