Climate Change publications

Making changes: a learning journey

Climatic challenges, the role of climate information, and what an organizational response can look like

Demystifying private climate finance

How private finance connects with climate change mitigation and adaptation
Executive Summary

Financial institutions taking action on climate change

How climate leadership is emerging in the finance sector – and on how public and private actors need to work together to grow leadership into a new normal

The Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition

Mobilizing financial markets to catalyze economic decarbonization
Press release

Global investor statement on climate change

Signed by 407 investors representing more than US $24 trillion in assets

Climate Change: Implications for Investors and Financial Institutions

In partnership with Cambridge University and IIGCC, UNEP FI has developed a summary and fast-track guide to the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the physical, economic, and regulatory impacts of climate change from a finance sector perspective. View the Press Release Published: 2014 | by: UNEP FI, Cambridge and IIGCC […]

Insuring Climate Resilience

A global industry survey on how to mobilise climate insurance for vulnerable communities

2013 Global Insurance Industry Statement

How the insurance industry and governments can work together more effectively in building climate resilience

South-originating Green Finance: Exploring the Potential

Latest quantitative evidence of rising levels of green finance from developing countries.

Investor Briefing – Portfolio Carbon

A briefing on why and how investors should meausre, disclose, and manage the GHG embedded in investments and portfolios.

2012 Global Investor Letter on Climate Change

2012 Investor Call for Climate Change Action

Financing Renewable Energy in Developing Countries: Drivers and Barriers for Private Finance in sub-Saharan Africa

Survey-backed study of obstacles hindering the private financing of renewable energy projects in sub-Saharan Africa

Re-launch of AND YET IT MOVES – success stories and drivers of CDM project development in sub-Saharan Africa

How low-carbon investment in sub-Saharan Africa is made possible by international carbon markets

Insurance in a Changing Risk Landscape – Local lessons from the Southern Cape of South Africa

Case study on risks associated with climate change and ecosystem degradation in South Africa’s Eden District Municipality

2011 Global Investor Statement on Climate Change

This Statement is supported by investors that represent assets of more than US$20 trillion
Press release

Investment-grade Climate Change Policy: Financing the transition to the low-carbon economy

The report has two objectives: (1) to contribute to policymakers’ understanding of the factors that institutional investors consider when investing in areas such as renewable energy and energy efficiency, and (2) to set out what institutional investors see as ‘investment-grade’ climate change and clean energy policy that would support significant low carbon, clean energy investment. […]