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Beyond target-setting: New guidance on Client Engagement and Governance to promote responsible banking progress
The new Principles for Responsible Banking Guidance on Client Engagement and Guidance on Effective Governance can be used as tools to promote responsible banking progress, helping banks move beyond analysis and target-setting, towards implementation of sustainability and impact targets and actions.
G20 recommendations: advancing a nature-positive economy and just transition
The G20, comprising of 19 countries and the European Union, collectively represents 85% of the global economy, putting it in…
The Principles for Responsible Banking Academy launches new applied nature course for bankers
The Principles for Responsible Banking Academy's launches its latest course today: Applying Nature-Responsible Banking
Banks cannot fix the climate crisis alone
The Net-Zero Banking Alliance’s outgoing chair urges governments to intensify efforts on the path to net zero.
New resources to help banks operationalise the links between the circular economy and sustainability impacts
The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) releases the first reports in a new series of resources helping banks implement and benefit from the interlinkages between the circular economy and major sustainability challenges of climate change, nature loss, and pollution.
The Global Biodiversity Framework – how has financial policy and regulation evolved to support ambition on nature action?
In February 2023, we wrote about how policymakers and regulators could support the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework…
Bogota Declaration on Sustainable Insurance Launches Technical Secretariat
The Bogota Declaration on Sustainable Insurance- The Bogota Declaration on Sustainable Insurance (BDSI), recently elected Fasecolda, Federation of Colombian Insurers,…
UNEP FI, PRI and Climate Bonds Initiative join forces to support taxonomy efforts around the world
27 June 2024: United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), Climate Bonds Initiative and the Principles for Responsible Investment…
Finance and Biodiversity Day at COP16 announced for 28 October 2024
On behalf of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), UNEP FI is excited to officially announce the second Finance and…
Pioneering holistic sustainability risk management for financial institutions
The recent launch of the UNEP FI Risk Centre marks a significant step forward in environmental risk management. Designed to offer a comprehensive approach, the centre aims to simplify the complexities of climate change and biodiversity loss for financial institutions.
