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News, Policy | 17 December 2025

From sustainability to stability: Transition plans enter the prudential agenda

Prudential supervisors are increasingly considering how institutions can use their strategic transition plans to inform assessments of resilience, governance and financial stability—which, in turn, can help institutions evaluate their exposures to climate-related risks, and manage the financial implications of the transition. This article highlights emerging supervisory approaches and trends for financial institutions navigating evolving prudential expectations. It includes examples of how prudential supervisors in different countries and regions are approaching transition plans, and discusses implications of transition planning for banks’ risk management and governance.

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Africa & Middle East, Events, Policy, Webinars | 15 December 2025

Regional Implementation of Sustainability Reporting Standards in Africa and the Middle East

In this Regulatory Implementation Support Programme webinar, regional policymakers will reflect on the region’s implementation of sustainable finance policies, with a focus on the Africa and Middle East regions’ alignment and implementation of ISSB IFRS S1 and S2 standards, implications for the region, and interoperability with European Sustainability Reporting Standards and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards.

Europe, News, Policy | 11 December 2025

Financing the EU chemical sector transition: Opportunities to sustainably transform a hard-to-abate industry

UNEP FI and the European Banking Federation (EBF) have released a new policy brief to help financial institutions and other stakeholders understand how Europe’s chemical sector is developing within the region’s sustainable transformation, including key policies affecting the sector. The brief, “Transforming the EU Chemical Sector”, shares practical policy levers that can support the chemical industry’s sustainable transition and strengthen its investment case.

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Climate Change, News, Policy | 28 November 2025

The COP30 mutirão decision and what it means for the global finance sector

As COP30 in Belém, Brazil drew to a close, Remco Fischer, Head of Climate for UNEP FI, and members of UNEP FI's Latin America and Caribbean-based team reflected on key outcomes from the climate negotiations, Brazil’s leadership, and private sector engagement on climate change these past two weeks—and have set out some of the implications for the global finance sector.

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News, Policy, Sustainable finance taxonomies | 11 November 2025

New resource provides guiding principles for development of credible, comparable sustainable finance frameworks to help mobilize capital

This article shares an overview of a new global resource, Principles for Taxonomy Interoperability, developed by partners in the Taxonomy Roadmap Initiative, including UNEP FI, to help UN member states and regulators design and implement key policy tools: sustainable finance taxonomies. The seven principles were developed to help ensure that these taxonomies are usable, credible and comparable across borders.

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