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ADEBA becomes newest Supporting Institution in the Latin America and Caribbean Region
UN Environment’s Latin America and Caribbean Office wishes to extend a warm welcome to the Association of Argentine Banks (Asociación…
IGES joins UNEP FI as Supporting Institution
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, IGES, becomes ‘Supporting Institution’ of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative to Strengthen Future Collaboration…
Ring the Bell for Gender Equality to Celebrate Women’s Day: Sustainable Stock Exchanges co-organises global collaboration, launches report on advancing equal opportunities
8 March, 2017 Less than 5% of CEOs at large, listed companies are women, and investors have an important role…
UNEP FI and Ecobanking Project Deliver ESRA Training to Financial Institutions in Zambia
UNEP FI and Ecobanking Project partnered with the International Trade Centre (ITC), the African Guarantee Fund for Small and Medium…
Sustainability in the financial world: where are we and where do we go? A look at Chile & Latin America
UNEP FI is partnering with CLG Chile, Bolsa Comercio Santiago, Cámara Chileno-Británica, Facultad Economía y Negocios Universidad de Chile, British Embassy Santiago, and MEXICO2 on an event that will discuss sustainable finance in Chile and Latin America including a discussion of sustainable development and capital markets, and the role of green bonds in the transition to a lower carbon economy.
UNEP FI shapes its strategy on social issues
Building on ten years of efforts to advance the finance and human rights agenda with its members, UNEP FI is…
Making Financial Institutions more Resilient to Environmental Risks: Launch of Drought Stress Testing Tool
In a pilot project on Environmental Stress Testing, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Natural Capital Finance Alliance (NCFA), have developed an analytical framework and tool that allows banks to quantify and assess the potential impact of drought events on the performance of their corporate loan portfolio. The project has been funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The tool will be launched at a series of events: 7th March in Mexico City, 10th March in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 14th March in Beijing, China, 17th March in New York, USA and 5th April in London, UK.
ABBANK becomes first UNEP FI member in Vietnam
An Binh Commercial Joint Stock Bank (ABBANK), the fastest growing retail bank in Vietnam, has become the first UNEP…
Mapping corporate governance and ESG concerns in Brazil: Launch of latest Fiduciary Duty Roadmap
February 23, 2017 Recent environmental and corporate governance failures in Brazil and their economic impact have focused the attention of…
Argentina in the G20 troika: The Boost to Sustainable Financing
On February 15, 2017 the Argentine Ministry of Treasury met with the UN Environment Mission in Buenos Aires to discuss…