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New UN report demonstrates renewables now dominate investment flows into new power generation
Coal and gas-fired electricity generation last year drew less than half the record investment made in solar, wind and other…
Fiduciary Duty in the 21st Century: UNEP FI announces a three year programme with PRI and The Generation Foundation to integrate sustainability into investors’ fiduciary duties
The project will engage asset owners, asset managers and policy makers across national and international jurisdictions to harmonise a global…
Conservation Finance From Niche to Mainstream: The Building of an Institutional Asset Class
Sustainable farmland, healthy forests, clean water and abundant habitat stand to become more valuable as the global population climbs to…
UNEP FI makes series of key recommendations to FSB’s Climate Disclosures Task Force
UNEP FI has presented a series of key recommendations to the International Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, recently established…
UNEP FI and partners publish new action framework on sustainable real estate
Set in the context of both the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate talks at the end of 2015,…
Results of UNEP FI and government survey demonstrate that UAE is already well on the way to green financing
Following a recent survey undertaken by UNEP FI and the UAE Ministry of Environment and Water, there is clear evidence…
UNEP FI Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative one of transformative projects of UN Secretary General’s Climate Resilience Initiative
A new initiative to build climate resilience in the world’s most vulnerable countries was launched today by UN Secretary-General Ban…
New report outlines options for portfolio decarbonization – across asset classes, investor strategies, and metric families
As the world transitions to a low-carbon future, institutional investors are increasingly motivated to contribute to greenhouse gas emissions reductions…
The world’s insurers and reinsurers launch an “Appeal on Climate Change” in Paris in run-up to COP negotiations
The UNEP FI Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) Initiative, UN leaders, government ministers, and industry leaders launched an ‘Appeal on…
UNEP FI’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance launches final, groundbreaking report of Global Resilience Project
At the “Resilience Day” event of COP21, the UNEP FI Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) Initiative launched the final report…