Policy

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

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

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.

Europe, Policy, Publications | 11 December 2025

In this new policy brief, UNEP FI and the European Banking Federation (EBF) share seven potential policy levers to help strengthen the investment case for the EU chemical sector and help it attract finance for its sustainable transition.

Climate Change, News, Policy | 28 November 2025

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.

Adaptation Finance, Asia Pacific, News, Policy, Sustainable finance taxonomies | 25 November 2025

A new white paper jointly developed by UNEP FI and partners lays groundwork for a future guide that aims to channel more finance towards building adaptation and resilience capacity in support of the ASEAN Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance.

Climate Change, News, Policy | 12 November 2025

Key developments in the COP30 negotiation process indicate a possible breakthrough in the establishment of a UN-regulated carbon market. Eric Usher, Head of UNEP FI, outlines what we can expect to be agreed and highlights some of the risks and opportunities for financial institutions.

News, Policy, Sustainable finance taxonomies | 11 November 2025

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.

Policy, Publications | 10 November 2025

This report by the Taskforce on Net Zero Policy, co-authored by UNEP FI, provides policymakers, regulators, and others with insights and recommendations for developing high integrity corporate and financial policies that drive rapid and substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

Policy, Publications, Sustainable finance taxonomies | 07 November 2025

The Principles for Taxonomy Interoperability, developed by partners in the Taxonomy Roadmap Initiative, are intended to help countries and regulators design and implement key policy tools—sustainable finance taxonomies—with a set of guiding tenets to ensure that these taxonomies are usable, credible and comparable across borders.

Policy, Publications | 07 November 2025

This position paper from the Transformational Finance for Climate Group outlines how public and private actors—from development banks and climate funds to institutional investors and commercial banks—can work together to reorient and mobilize financial flows for transformational impact, scaling high-quality, just, inclusive, and long-term climate finance using a systems-level approach. UNEP FI is a member of the Group.