Partnership between United Nations Environment and the global financial sector to promote sustainable finance
Join this UNEP FI webinar to discuss how African investors and their global partners can begin to use the Investor Climate Action Plans (ICAPs) Expectations Ladder to start the decarbonisation process and jumpstart a green recovery.
UNEP FI’s TCFD programme is launching a Comprehensive Good Practice Guide to Climate Stress Testing. The report aims to provide a detailed user guide for financial institutions looking to understand the climate stress testing and develop plans for effectively executing them.
ESG regulatory changes are coming from all corners, proxy seasons becoming more bold, and financial institutions are grappling with diversity and inclusion within their own organisations at the same time as responding to fundamental change regarding racial equality and workplace equity in their portfolios. Will these changes suffice for the US to align its ESG…
This meeting convened by Good Food Finance Network, which will be held on 19 November 2021 between 13:00 and 15:00 CET is designed to kick-start a fruitful dialogue and collaboration between private and public banks to scale up finance for sustainable food systems. Our intention is that this event will mark the beginning of collaborative…
UNEP FI, the Union of Arab Banks (UAB) and the Tunisian Professional Association for Banks and Financial Institutions (APTBEF) have partnered to deliver a series of workshops on climate risks, opportunities, and disclosures focusing on the Tunisian Banking industry.
The National Securities Commission, UNDP and WWF, with the collaboration of UNEP FI, are organising the Paraguay Sustainable Finance Week. The webinars will take place on 22, 24, and 26 November,
Alas20, CentroRS, PRI, Moody’s, ESG Solutions and Governart, with the collaboration of UNEP FI, CECODES, FundSociety and Santiago organized the second Spanish-American Congress on Responsible Investment. The webinars took place in Spanish on 16, 17, 18 and 19 November.
This COP26 side event will bring together leading experts in the net zero and sustainable finance space to discuss what is needed to align all finance flows with Paris Agreement goals and ensure impact in the real economy.
This session focuses on how we can mobilise both public and private financial flows from banks, insurers and investors, towards a sustainable ocean industry that offers an immense potential for climate change mitigation and adaptation, using key frameworks and initiatives, including the Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Principles – to rebuild, renew and replenish the ocean – for people and planet.
In this episode, Charles Emond, CEO of CDPQ and Guy Cormier, CEO of Desjardins address net zero targets, climate risks, greenwashing, systemic change, business opportunities and the energy transition with Nili Gilbert, Chair of the Investment Committee at the David Rockefeller Fund
Throughout COP26, the UN Environment Programme’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative will focus on progressing the sustainable insurance agenda through the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance it convenes.
The COP26 summit will bring governments, civil society and the private sector together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Find out what UNEP FI is doing at COP26 to bring the latest climate commitments made by UNEP FI members to the attention of policymakers.
Partners European Association of Co-operative Banks The European Association of Co-operative Banks (EACB) represents, promotes and defends the common interests of its 27 member institutions and of cooperative banks, with regard to banking as well as to co-operative legislation. Founded in 1970, today the EACB is a leading professional lobbying association in the European banking…
Ahead of the G20 Summit and COP26, hear from some of the most important net-zero pioneers who are acting now to decarbonize their portfolios and speaking out about the imperatives, challenges, opportunities and feasibility of doing so.
Dennis Fritsch, Sustainable Blue Finance Lead at UNEP FI and Dorothee Herr, Oceans & Climate Change Manager at IUCN discuss ocean health, its role in regulating the global climate, its economic value and the role that financial institutions can play in restoring this vital ecosystem.
UNEP FI and the Egyptian Banking Institute (EBI) have partnered to deliver a series of workshops on climate risks, opportunities, and disclosures focusing on the Egyptian Banking industry. They will explore regionally specific physical and transition risks for the Arab region.
UNEP FI, IDB and FINRESP organized a webinar on Green Hydrogen to raise awareness on sustainable economy and to assess what the main challenges are in financing projects linked to green hydrogen production, storage and transport. The webinar took place on 25 October an it was in Spanish.