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Banking, Principles for Responsible Banking, Publications, Risk | 21 September 2026

A Chief Risk Officer’s Guide to the Principles for Responsible Banking

A Chief Risk Officer’s Guide to the Principles for Responsible Banking explains how CROs and their teams can implement the PRB through the bank’s existing risk management framework. It connects each of the six Principles to the core elements of risk management, with practical actions, questions to ask, and case studies from signatory banks.

Banking, Nature, Publications, Risk | 16 September 2026

Asking Better Questions on Nature: For Bank Chief Risk Officers and Risk Committees

This guide helps risk professionals at banks gather the information they need to monitor and manage nature-related risks and opportunities across their portfolios. Structured around ten questions, the guide helps banks better understand their nature-related impacts, capabilities, and management practices – and turn that understanding into greater resilience and future opportunities. 

Banking, News, Policy, Principles for Responsible Banking | 11 September 2026

UNEP FI convenes inaugural Strategic Dialogue with central banks on emerging sustainability risks

UNEP FI convened the inaugural Strategic Dialogue on emerging sustainability risks alongside the June UNEP FI Global Roundtable during London Climate Week. The session brought together senior representatives from 13 central banks and supervisory authorities, NGFS Secretariat, and members of the UNEP FI Banking Board to exchange perspectives, surface priorities and explore opportunities for future engagement.

Banking, Nature, News, Pollution & Circular Economy | 10 September 2026

Helping banks advance nature goals through circular finance

The new "Circular Solutions to Achieve Nature Targets" guidance aims to help banks address nature-related impacts and dependencies by integrating circular economy considerations across their portfolios and operations. Focusing on three ecosystems - ocean and marine, freshwater, and terrestrial and land ecosystems - it provides examples of high-impact sectors to address, practical actions for institutions to take and case studies illustrating emerging banking practices.

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Banking, Nature, Pollution & Circular Economy, Principles for Responsible Banking, Publications | 10 September 2026

Circular Solutions to Achieve Nature Targets

This report provides commercial banks, particularly signatories to the Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB), with a practical framework for understanding how circular economy solutions can address nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities across three ecosystem categories: ocean and marine, freshwater, and terrestrial and land-based ecosystems.

Asia Pacific, Banking, China, News, Principles for Responsible Banking | 09 September 2026

Building a Green Banking Ecosystem in China | Asia Pacific Case Studies

Financial health and inclusion are central to economic resilience, enabling households and small businesses to meet obligations, manage shocks, and invest - underpinning more resilient portfolios and, ultimately, more sustainable banks. This case study explores how PRB signatories in Asia Pacific are turning financial inclusion gains into resilience.

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Banking, Publications, Social | 01 September 2026

From Ambition to Action: Five Years of Advancing Financial Health and Inclusion in Banking

Our new report, “From Ambition to Action: Five Years of Advancing Financial Health and Inclusion in Banking", looks at how banks involved with the Principles for Responsible Banking Commitment to Financial Health and Inclusion are putting financial health and inclusion into practice including case study examples across five areas: strategy, internal policies & processes, portfolio composition & financing, client engagement and advocacy & partnerships.

Banking, Pollution & Circular Economy, Publications | 28 July 2026

Circular economy finance: Sectoral guidelines for commercial banks and development finance institutions

This series of guidelines equips commercial banks and DFIs with a practical methodology to assess the circularity of client activities across portfolios and client segments across the textile, agriculture and buildings and construction sectors, as well as minerals and metals (coming soon). The guidelines help institutions determine which activities are circular and, where circularity criteria are not yet met, identify targeted engagement opportunities to support clients’ transition toward more circular business models.