Industries

Events, Insurance | 14 September 2026

Taking place at the Insurance House during the 2026 UN Climate Change Conference (COP31) in Antalya, Türkiye, the COP31 Global Sustainable Insurance Summit will serve as the flagship UN-convened, insurance industry-led, multistakeholder gathering at COP31.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Banking, Publications, Social | 01 September 2026

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.

Asia Pacific, Europe, Events, Policy, Webinars | 04 August 2026

This webinar explores the evolving landscape of nature-related prudential regulation, with a focus on developments in China and the European Union. The session will present key insights from a recently published policy brief and examine how regulatory approaches are advancing across both jurisdictions.

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

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.

Banking, News, Risk | 22 July 2026

The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) today launched The Conceptual Framework for Sustainability Risk Integration that sets out a practical approach to help banks embed sustainability risks into core risk management practices, in response to growing supervisory expectations and technical challenges experienced by banks.

Banking, Publications, Risk | 22 July 2026

This conceptual framework sets out how sustainability risks should be considered across the seven core elements of risk management: risk strategy, governance, risk identification, measurement and materiality, risk taxonomy and scope, risk appetite, risk management actions, and risk monitoring and reporting. Its purpose is to help banking risk professionals integrate sustainability risks fully into their risk management frameworks, enabling them to meet evolving regulatory expectations while strengthening resilience, safeguarding capital, and supporting better-informed decision-making.