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Spatial Finance : Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World

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2020-12-01
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Abstract
If financial markets are to realign towards truly sustainable development the financial sector needs to differentiate commercial actors more accurately on their climate and environmental performance. A potential breakthrough to help in this challenge is the emerging field of ‘Spatial Finance’, the independent assessment of the location of a company’s or a country’s assets and infrastructure using ground data, remote sensing observations and modelled insights, offers a potentially transformative means to gain improved quantitative ESG insights. Rapid development is required if spatial finance is to deliver in the short term. In this report, authors outline a possible taxonomy and hierarchy for spatial finance, showing how discrete forms of technology, approaches and data can be considered within a single consistent framework. Using this framework, spatial finance could provide insights at differing scales for different applications from the asset-scale for project finance, to company-scale for investment, to country scale for sovereign debt. Throughout the document authors provide insights into current cutting-edge developments within the field, illustrated with case studies from practitioners and data providers, and explore potential future developments.Citation
“World Bank; WWF. 2020. Spatial Finance : Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World. Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions Insight;. World Bank, Washington, DC. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/34894 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
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