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New Principles for Responsible Banking report to support banks addressing climate adaptation and resilience
A new Principles for Responsible Banking guidance helps banking professionals incorporate climate adaptation and resilience (A&R) into their risk frameworks and business strategies whether establishing their approach to A&R or enhancing existing practices within their organization.
Making the transition nature-positive: How sustainable finance taxonomies can play a key role
Sustainable finance taxonomies are key to shifting financial flows towards ‘nature-positive’ investments aligned with the transition. As transition planning and financing accelerates globally, the wider financial community should consider an important interlinkage: climate stability is interdependent on the health of our natural world. In a time of shifting sustainability sentiments, public and private decision-makers can leverage sustainable finance taxonomies that consider both climate and nature risks.
Making the Clean Industrial Deal bankable: Recommendations to scale sustainability across EU industry
In February 2025, the European Commission (EC) announced the Clean Industrial Deal (CID), the EU’s main industrial strategy and a key part of its climate policy. As leveraging private capital will be key to the CID’s success, policymakers, banks and industry representatives recently shared their recommendations for overcoming barriers and leveraging opportunities to help the CID achieve its transformative potential at an event convened by UNEP FI, the European Banking Federation, and the Net-Zero Banking Alliance.
UN forum launches first-of-its-kind global transition plan guide for insurance underwriting portfolios
Frankfurt, 2 July 2025—The United Nations-convened, multistakeholder Forum for Insurance Transition to Net Zero (FIT) launched today a first-of-its-kind transition…
PSI Working Group for Nature launches new series of guidance on nature-related assessments for the global insurance industry
London – As part of London Climate Action Week, the UNEP Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) Working Group for Nature…
UN Ocean Conference: Key takeaways for financial institutions
The ocean is vital to the global economy, climate stability, and biodiversity, yet it remains vastly underfinanced and increasingly under threat. Earlier this month, at the third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) and related side events, a series of major announcements underscored the growing momentum to change that.
How can export credit agencies redirect trillions for climate action? NZECA is paving the way
The ten members of the UN-convened Net Zero Export Credit Agencies Alliance outline their roadmap to COP30 and a net-zero…
Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance calls for urgent action to tackle deforestation
The Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) issued ‘Guidelines and Recommendations for Halting Deforestation,’ highlighting the necessity for action and collaboration between investors, policymakers, companies, and data providers. The paper provides a four-step pathway for investors to phase-out deforestation and forest conversion.
APAC regulators and supervisors are increasingly integrating climate-related risks into regulatory frameworks, new analysis finds
A new UNEP FI policy brief examines how jurisdictions across the Asia-Pacific region are incorporating climate-related risks into prudential frameworks, finding trends towards integration within micro- and macroprudential regulation and climate-related disclosures.
UNEP FI at London Climate Action Week
UNEP FI will be actively participating in London Climate Action Week 2025, contributing to key panels and events focused on sustainable finance, climate risk, and nature-based solutions.
