19 December 2023Banking, Climate Change, Impact Centre, Insurance, Investment, Nature, News, Policy, Pollution & Circular Economy, Social
Year: 2017
Breakfast Meeting: Sustainable Finance in Latin America and Chile
/The United Nations Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), along with CAF – Latin American Development Bank, and the Ecobanking project/INCAE Business School, are organizing an Executive Breakfast on Sustainable Finance in Latin America and Chile, which will be held on Tuesday, March 28 from 9h to 11h30 in Santiago de Chile.
Read more »ADEBA becomes newest Supporting Institution in the Latin America and Caribbean Region
/UN Environment’s Latin America and Caribbean Office wishes to extend a warm welcome to the Association of Argentine Banks (Asociación…
Read more »IGES joins UNEP FI as Supporting Institution
/Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, IGES, becomes ‘Supporting Institution’ of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative to Strengthen Future Collaboration…
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How Stock Exchanges Can Advance Gender Equality
/Gender equality is an issue that impacts everyone, from diversity in boardrooms and at the executive level, to equal opportunities…
Read more »Ring the Bell for Gender Equality to Celebrate Women’s Day: Sustainable Stock Exchanges co-organises global collaboration, launches report on advancing equal opportunities
/8 March, 2017 Less than 5% of CEOs at large, listed companies are women, and investors have an important role…
Read more »UNEP FI and Ecobanking Project Deliver ESRA Training to Financial Institutions in Zambia
/UNEP FI and Ecobanking Project partnered with the International Trade Centre (ITC), the African Guarantee Fund for Small and Medium…
Read more »Sustainability in the financial world: where are we and where do we go? A look at Chile & Latin America
/UNEP FI is partnering with CLG Chile, Bolsa Comercio Santiago, Cámara Chileno-Británica, Facultad Economía y Negocios Universidad de Chile, British Embassy Santiago, and MEXICO2 on an event that will discuss sustainable finance in Chile and Latin America including a discussion of sustainable development and capital markets, and the role of green bonds in the transition to a lower carbon economy.
Read more »UNEP FI shapes its strategy on social issues
/Building on ten years of efforts to advance the finance and human rights agenda with its members, UNEP FI is…
Read more »Making Financial Institutions more Resilient to Environmental Risks: Launch of Drought Stress Testing Tool
/In a pilot project on Environmental Stress Testing, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Natural Capital Finance Alliance (NCFA), have developed an analytical framework and tool that allows banks to quantify and assess the potential impact of drought events on the performance of their corporate loan portfolio. The project has been funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
The tool will be launched at a series of events: 7th March in Mexico City, 10th March in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 14th March in Beijing, China, 17th March in New York, USA and 5th April in London, UK.
Read more »ABBANK becomes first UNEP FI member in Vietnam
/An Binh Commercial Joint Stock Bank (ABBANK), the fastest growing retail bank in Vietnam, has become the first UNEP…
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