PRB Guidance

Banking, Climate Change, PRB Guidance, Principles for Responsible Banking, Publications | 20 November 2025

Transition planning is not only a regulatory or market-driven requirement—it is a core enabler of a bank’s portfolio composition, client engagement, and stakeholder and partnership strategies. In addition, transitioning planning helps banks respond to their climate, nature, human rights and healthy and inclusive economies commitments under the PRB. This report equips banks with the tools to embed sustainability into their core business models, enhance internal coordination, and proactively support the real economy’s transformation—delivering long-term value for both society and shareholders.

Banking, PRB Guidance, Principles for Responsible Banking, Publications, Social | 09 October 2025

Promoting decent work is not only an ethical and sustainability imperative, but also a smart business strategy. This guidance helps banks integrate decent work considerations into their financial activities, following the UN Principles for Responsible Banking Journey.

Banking, Climate Change, Net Zero Banking, PRB Guidance, Principles for Responsible Banking, Publications, Target Setting | 03 October 2025

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.

Adaptation Finance, Banking, Climate Change, PRB Guidance, Principles for Responsible Banking, Publications | 25 July 2025

The Practical Guidance on Implementing Adaptation and Resilience for Banks provides a roadmap and resources to support bank action on climate adaptation and resilience, whether a bank is just beginning to address adaptation and resilience, or seeking to enhance established practices.

Banking, Policy, PRB Guidance, Principles for Responsible Banking, Publications | 28 April 2025

The new report, "Guidance on Responsible Policy Engagement," captures best practice and offers recommendations for developing and implementing effective policy engagement strategies, supporting banks in implementing Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) “Principle 4: Stakeholder Engagement.” The guidance is centred around four pillars of responsible policy engagement: consistency, accountability, transparency, and active engagement.

Banking, PRB Guidance, Principles for Responsible Banking, Publications, Social | 11 December 2024

This new report from UNEP FI and UN Women is designed to support the significant role banks have in closing the gender gap using their workplace policies and practices, business strategies and portfolios, as well as financial products and services.

Banking, PRB Guidance, Principles for Responsible Banking, Publications | 10 September 2024

The Principles for Responsible Banking Guidance on Client Engagement provides banks with sector-agnostic guidelines on engaging clients, helping banks move beyond analysis and target-setting, towards implementation on their sustainability and impact targets and actions.

Banking, PRB Guidance, Principles for Responsible Banking, Publications | 10 September 2024

The Principles for Responsible Banking Guidance on Effective Governance provides a model for sustainability governance from the banking perspective, helping banks move beyond analysis and target-setting, towards implementation on their sustainability and impact targets and actions.

Banking, Climate Change, Net Zero Banking, PRB Guidance, Principles for Responsible Banking, Publications, Target Setting | 13 March 2024

'The Guidelines for Climate Target Setting for Banks - Version 2' outline key principles to underpin the setting of credible targets in line with the science and achieving the most ambitious temperature goals of the Paris Agreement.

Banking, PRB Guidance, Principles for Responsible Banking, Publications, Social, Target Setting | 21 February 2024

The new PRB guidance, "Driving Impact on Financial Health and Inclusion: From Setting Targets to Implementation", supports financial institutions prioritising financial well-being by creating common definitions for Financial Health and Inclusion, proposing a Pathway to Impact, and offering standard indicators and methodologies for strategy development and implementation. It provides practical tools to set impactful targets and create robust strategies to promote financial well-being, and tailor action plans to meet the unique needs of individuals and businesses.