this chapter outlines this complex financial landscape and the potential for countries to take action to tap the potential synergies among growing new sources of environment finance and traditional sources of development finance transitioning to loivcarbon climateresilient and sustainable development pathways requires a holistic approach to finance and investment shifting public and private finance from brown to green investments scalingup green finance and integrating environmental considerations into all relevant investments and government activities the impact of these changes may fall indiscriminately across countries population groups and generations affecting in particular the poorest the most vulnerable and those who have limited control over and responsibility for possible solutions