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UNEP Finance Initiative at COP26: Watch the events you missed
The COP26 summit will bring governments, civil society and the private sector together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Find out what UNEP FI is doing at COP26 to bring the latest climate commitments made by UNEP FI members to the attention of policymakers.
Net-Zero Insurance Alliance breaks ground in Africa and Asia as it expands in Europe
13 October 2021—In the run up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26), the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA) convened by UN Environment Programme’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative (PSI) has expanded its membership, announcing today five new members from Africa, Asia and Europe as part of its efforts to build a global alliance.
Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials collaborates with UN-convened Net-Zero Insurance Alliance to develop standard to measure insured emissions
The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF), in collaboration with the UN-convened Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA), today announced the launch of a working group comprising leading insurance and reinsurance companies to develop the first global standard to measure and disclose insured greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Finance ministers of world’s most climate-vulnerable economies establish insurance facility with UN Environment Programme to protect MSMEs
UNEP’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative to host V20 Sustainable Insurance Facility with initial funding from the German government
Global insurance and reinsurance leaders establish groundbreaking net-zero alliance
Geneva/Venice, 11 July 2021—As the G20 gathers in Venice for its Climate Summit, eight of the world’s leading insurers and reinsurers make a historic commitment to play their part in accelerating the transition to a net-zero emissions economy, as required by the Paris Agreement.
Global insurance and reinsurance leaders establish alliance to accelerate transition to net-zero emissions economy
Net-Zero Insurance Alliance committed to join Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero and UN Race to Zero; plus Net-Zero Banking…
Association of British Insurers joins UN’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative, builds momentum towards COP26 in Glasgow
12 May 2021—The Association of British Insurers (ABI)—the voice of the UK’s world-leading insurance and long-term savings industry—has joined UN…
World’s leading insurers and reinsurers and UN Environment Programme to establish pioneering Net-Zero Insurance Alliance
Geneva, 21 April 2021—Seven of the world’s leading insurers and reinsurers, working together with the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative, are currently in the process of establishing a pioneering Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA). The NZIA is expected to be launched at the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow this November (COP26).
World’s leading insurers and reinsurers and UN Environment Programme to establish pioneering Net-Zero Insurance Alliance
21 April 2021—Seven of the world’s leading insurers and reinsurers, working together with the UN Environment Programme, are currently in…
World’s insurers and UN Environment Programme unveil state-of-the-art approaches to assessing climate-related physical, transition and litigation risks
Pioneering collaborative effort by insurers shows how climate change scenarios can be used to assess and disclose climate risks in…