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BLOG: UNEP FI’s Eric Usher on how responsible banks can advance financial inclusion in the COVID-19 build back

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Denmark’s PFA Pension joins the UN-Convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance

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Property sector perspectives on ESG, COVID‑19, and managing crises

Banking

Banks share responses to COVID-19 crisis: Call to members to tell us about your company’s experiences

EVENTS AND WEBINARS

Ensuring a Sustainable Recovery in the ASEAN region: What Role for the Finance Sector?

11 June 2020

Webinar

As part of the main session of the UN Virtual Forum on Responsible Business and Human Rights - Asia Pacific, UNEP FI is co-organising a session on the role of the finance sector in the sustainable and inclusive recovery from the COVID-19 crisis in the ASEAN region.

Webinar: Developments in Climate Regulation and Disclosures with SASB

4 June 2020

Webinar

UNEP FI and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) webinar to discuss the evolving world of climate regulation and TCFD disclosures. SASB will share perspectives on their standards and their relationship to climate risk. UNEP FI will discuss findings from its latest TCFD pilot projects.

Ciclo de Webinarios “Tendencias en Finanzas Sostenibles en América Latina”

19 May 2020

Online

United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), ComunicarSe and WWF join forces to promote a series of webinars to address the main trends in Sustainable Finance in Latin America.

Webinar: Green Opportunities after the Pandemic (in Spanish)

5 May 2020

Webinar

Listen to a dialogue between UNEP FI, Ecobusiness Fund, UNEP, Permiam Global Colombia, Banco Hipotecario and Banco Promerica.

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PUBLICATIONS

Fiduciary Duty in the 21st Century programme: Final Activity Report 2015-2019

This report summarises the research and outreach activities carried out under the Fiduciary Duty in the 21st Century programme, convened ...

UNEP FI Corporate Impact Analysis Tool

The Corporate Impact Analysis Tool helps banks and investors gain a cross-cutting view of the impact status and possibilities of ...

UNEP FI Portfolio Impact Analysis Tool for Banks

The Portfolio Impact Analysis Tool for Banks represents a great step forward for holistic impact analysis in banking. Developed jointly ...

Changing Course: Real Estate – TCFD pilot project report and investor guide to scenario-based climate risk assessment in Real Estate Portfolios

Twelve institutional investors from eight countries, convened by UNEP FI and supported by Carbon Delta, have worked throughout 2018–2019 to ...

Unwrapping the risks of plastic pollution to the insurance industry

Plastic is an increasingly high-profile threat to our climate, ocean, wildlife and human health as it becomes widespread both in ...

Year Two Good Growth Partnership Highlights Report

The Good Growth Partnership convenes a wide range of stakeholders and initiatives throughout soy, beef and palm oil supply chains ...

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HEADLINE NEWS

BLOG: UNEP FI’s Eric Usher on how responsible banks can advance financial inclusion in the COVID-19 build back

Denmark’s PFA Pension joins the UN-Convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance

Property sector perspectives on ESG, COVID‑19, and managing crises

Banks share responses to COVID-19 crisis: Call to members to tell us about your company’s experiences

EVENTS AND WEBINARS

Ensuring a Sustainable Recovery in the ASEAN region: What Role for the Finance Sector?

Webinar: Developments in Climate Regulation and Disclosures with SASB

Ciclo de Webinarios “Tendencias en Finanzas Sostenibles en América Latina”

Webinar: Green Opportunities after the Pandemic (in Spanish)

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Fiduciary Duty in the 21st Century programme: Final Activity Report 2015-2019

UNEP FI Corporate Impact Analysis Tool

UNEP FI Portfolio Impact Analysis Tool for Banks

Changing Course: Real Estate – TCFD pilot project report and investor guide to scenario-based climate risk assessment in Real Estate Portfolios

Unwrapping the risks of plastic pollution to the insurance industry

Year Two Good Growth Partnership Highlights Report

RECENT NEWS

Covid-19 to push ESG up property investors’ agenda

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Post-Covid recovery packages must quicken the pace to net-zero carbon emissions

BLOG: UNEP FI’s Eric Usher on how banks around the globe are helping customers and communities weather the COVID-19 storm

UNEP FI launches new holistic impact analysis tools for the finance sector

Statement from the United Nations-Convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance on the coronavirus pandemic

Principles for Responsible Banking update: More than 170 banks worldwide now committed to aligning their business strategies with society’s goals

How to build deforestation-free supply chains: lessons from Indonesia

KENFO is the first sovereign wealth fund to join UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance

ERAFP joins UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance

2020: the year sustainable Islamic finance scales?

UNEP FI members recognised at ESG Finance Awards Japan 2019

Munich Re joins Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance bringing collective AUM of group to US$ 4.5 trillion

Günther Thallinger, Allianz CIO and Chair of Asset Owner Alliance reacts to BP’s announcement

Industry leaders and financiers met at Davos to define how companies and their investors deliver net-zero economy

Generali and Church of England investment bodies join UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance

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2019 in review: UNEP FI membership tops 300 as finance sector steps up on sustainable finance