All banks are encouraged to use the guidance documents for best-practice on key topics. Working groups of signatory banks worldwide have contributed to – or are actively engaged in – creating this guidance, working with experts in the field. Discover what leadership looks like by using the easy-to use guides below.
PRB Implementation for Banks
Principles for Responsible Banking Implementation Journey – Defining Responsible Banking
Since 2019 – when the Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) framework was launched – there has been unprecedented change in the sustainable finance landscape. New international agreements have come to the fore, such as the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, defining ...
Responsible Banking Blueprint
Navigating the dynamic intersection where science, regulation, standards and sustainable innovation meet, responsible banks play a critical role as both financial intermediaries and as agents of transformation. By aligning their core strategies, business processes, financial portfolios and client engagement practices ...
Principles for Responsible Banking Guidance
The Principles for Responsible Banking Guidance document is designed to support signatory banks' implementation of the Principles. It provides non-binding guidance to banks on measures they can take to implement each Principle. Each section of the Document begins with one ...
Impact Protocol 2025
Impact management explained, step by step! The Impact Protocol provides a step-by-step overview of how to analyse and manage bank portfolio impacts as per UNEP FI’s holistic impact approach and in conformity with the requirements of the Principles for Responsible ...
Principles for Responsible Banking Target Setting FAQ
Signatory banks of the Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) align their business strategy and practice with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement by following three key steps: impact analysis, target setting and reporting. Once they finish analysing ...
Guidance for Banks
Guidance for Climate Target Setting for Banks – Version 3
The Guidance for Climate Target Setting for Banks outlines key principles to underpin the setting of credible, robust, impactful and ambitious targets for achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions goals in alignment with the Paris Agreement. NZBA members are encouraged to ...
Advancing Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Target Setting Guidance for Banks
Women and girls represent half of the world’s population and therefore also half of its potential. But gender inequality persists everywhere and stagnates social progress. Investing in women's empowerment provides the critical leverage required to advance gender equality, poverty eradication ...
Guidance on Client Engagement
Banks are vital economic intermediaries and as such can make their most significant contributions to society’s goals by creating synergies with clients, encouraging sustainable practices, and accompanying clients in their transition towards more sustainable business models and technologies. Simultaneously, banks ...
Guidance on Effective Governance
Research shows that strong performing governance frameworks have a bearing on risk management and business opportunity outcomes. We also know that good governance systems support more consistent delivery against organisational objectives and targets. Moreover, as financial intermediaries, banks have an ...
Driving Impact on Financial Health and Inclusion of Individuals and Businesses: From Setting Targets to Implementation
As economic, political, and environmental challenges strain families and businesses worldwide, the importance of financial health and inclusion has become increasingly evident for sustainable development. Financial institutions, as stewards of their customers' financial well-being, bear a crucial responsibility in promoting ...
Climate Adaptation Target Setting
The new Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) Climate Adaptation Target Setting guidance aims to help banks accelerate their efforts on managing climate-related impacts and financing climate adaptation, by setting adaptation targets using the PRB impact framework. Building on a framing ...
PRB Nature Target Setting Guidance
Authored by the UNEP FI with the support of Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) signatories, the new nature target-setting guidance aims to help the banking industry act on nature loss and set targets to align with the objectives of the ...
The Use of Carbon Credits in Climate Target Setting
To support Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) member banks in developing targets, the Alliance has developed this short paper to provide clarification on the already-published Guidelines for Climate Target Setting for Banks outlining how the Alliance views the treatment of offsetting ...
Banking on nature: What the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework means for responsible banks
As part of a series of publications to help financial institutions understand the relevance and implications of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), this briefing provides banks a first overview of how the GBF applies to their industry, through the ...
Guidance on Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy Target Setting – Version 2
Our current linear economic system is based on a take-make-waste model which relies on resource extraction and depletes natural capital. Such practices severely worsen the global challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, and resource use is estimated to ...
Case studies on impact analysis and target setting
Signatory banks of the Principles of Responsible Banking are to set and publish targets in the areas where they have the most significant impacts on people and the environment. Both impact analysis and target setting are complex processes, requiring appropriate ...
Foundations of Climate Mitigation Target Setting
A getting-started guide on setting targets. Learn about the science, process, and context of target setting through this foundation guidance. As controllers and facilitators of capital, banks can be at the core of the systemic change needed to help decarbonise ...