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As the global framework and gold standard for Sustainable Banking, the Principles for Responsible Banking need to continuously evolve in line with increasing ambition and new goals humanity defines. Signatories have made the important decision to strengthen the definition of the Principles’ climate ambition to specify that Signatory Banks, in accordance with the Paris Agreement, are expected to align their portfolios with a 1.5 degrees pathway.

Following the adoption of the historic resolution to forge an international legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution by 2024…

Today, a historic agreement was reached at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP 15): the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework which aims to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. Taking a similar approach to the Paris Climate Agreement, this framework sets a clear mandate for private financial flows to align with the 2050 Vision of “Living in harmony with Nature”, providing the finance sector with a landmark agreement for biodiversity-related financial-decision making.

At the end of November, UNEP FI convened its Leadership Council of CEOs of banks and insurers to explore how sustainable…

At UNEP FI, 2022 was a year in which we marked important milestones, while we continued to drive the finance…

The 27th Conference of Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ended on 18 November with…

The first progress report delivered by the NZBA since its launch in April 2021 aggregates the intermediate 2030 targets set…

The 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – COP27 – brought together heads…

UNEP FI welcomed more than 3000 participants at its 17th Global Roundtable (GRT), held virtually under the theme “Transforming Finance,…

UNEP FI Head, Eric Usher, spoke to Frédéric Oudéa, CEO of Societe Generale about how priorities in the finance industry…