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For Mongolian Finance Community: Intro to the Principles for Responsible Banking & Forward-looking Climate Analysis (TCFD)
For financial institutions in Mongolia: we are holding a webinar that will introduce the Principles for Responsible Banking and forward-looking climate assessment in line with the recommendations for the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures. With English-Mongolian translation.
Investment & Pensions Europe: Storebrand Signs UN Healthy Oceans Framework
The Norwegian financial group said it had signed the United Nations-backed Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Principles, a guiding framework launched in 2018 for financing a sustainable ocean economy. Storebrand – one of Norway’s main occupational and personal pension providers – said the framework aimed to accelerate the transition towards sustainable use of the ocean and its resources by developing practical actions for insurers, lenders and investors to undertake.
U.N.-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance adds members managing combined $200 billion assets
The United Nations-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance has added three new members with combined assets under management (AUM) of $200…
Nature-related Financial Risks gain Urgency in Emerging Markets
Financial institutions in Colombia, Peru and South Africa are beginning to tackle nature-related risks, exemplifying a trend across emerging markets…
American Hellenic Hull Insurance Company Signs the Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Principles
American Hellenic Hull Insurance Company announced today that it has signed the Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Principles joining a growing…
U.N.-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance publishes Thermal Coal Position
Members of the 30-strong UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance have published their position on thermal coal, calling for the cancellation…
How the Dutch Central Bank is Leading on Nature-related Risks
The Dutch Central Bank and financial supervisor, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), is the first central bank to highlight biodiversity as…
Implementing Holistic Impact Analysis: Learnings from early adopters, tool updates and new user guide
UNEP FI has released a detailed user Guide for the Portfolio Impact Analysis Tool for Banks, as well as the first updates to its in-built country needs assessment framework, one of several unique in-built resources of the Tools.
The global financial system is intimately linked to the ocean, says Peter Thomson of the United Nations
We cannot have a healthy planet without a healthy ocean, and in any global discussion on biodiversity the ocean must…
Marine ecologist Enric Sala addresses the financial community
The blue economy is an attractive opportunity for banks and insurance companies, yet some players are rushing to invest without first adopting sustainability principles that can avoid repeating the wrongs of the past, says world-renowned ecologist Enric Sala.
