Interactive country fiches
The Interactive Country Fiches tool offers interactive, updatable environmental profiles for countries, covering eight environmental pillars. It centralises national policies, performance indicators and over 100 up-to-date datasets into a single access point.
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OVERVIEW
Developer & organisation
The Interactive Country Fiches (ICF) tool is developed by UNEP/GRID-Geneva, supported by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA). GRID-Geneva operates under the UN Environment Programme’s global GRID network.
Target audience
ICF aims primarily at researchers, policy analysts, development agencies, environmental institutions and governmental bodies that require comparative environmental data.
Functionality & features
- Presents interactive, country-level profiles across eight environmental pillars.
- Integrates more than 100 up-to-date datasets and national policy indicators in one interface.
- Enables visual comparison across countries and tracking of trends over time.
- Provides access to thematic data (e.g. climate, water, ecosystems, pollution) via consistent indicators.
Relevance to finance professionals
- ESG & risk integration: helps assess sovereign and country exposures to environmental and climate risks.
- Sovereign risk modelling & stress testing: supports scenario analysis and integration of environmental variables into credit and macro models.
- Benchmarking & peer comparison: allows relative ranking of countries on environmental metrics, useful in portfolio decisions.
- Data efficiency: centralises dispersed environmental datasets, reducing effort in sourcing, cleaning and validating data.
