Partnership between United Nations Environment and the global financial sector to promote sustainable finance
The third issue of the Chief Liquidity Series focuses on a number of sub-sectors within the broader extractive sector. The first part of the briefing displays how water risks may manifest themselves in different types of extractive sub-sectors and how this in turn could affect the finance sector. Within the realm of this publication we…
A new UNEP-WCMC and UNEP FI report – “Biodiversity Offsets: Voluntary and Compliance Regimes” – provides an overview of voluntary biodiversity offset initiatives by businesses as well as compliance regimes of governments that are requiring companies to offset their impact on biodiversity and ecosystems. It also highlights existing challenges and opportunities for such schemes. Published:…
A commitment by the finance sector to integrate natural capital criteria into their products and services
Biodiversity is becoming financially material beyond reputation
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The Biodiversity Principles for sustainable finance
German version
Biodiversity and ecosystem services risk and opportunity management within the extractive industry
Suggestions by the financial sector on an effective forest-based climate change mitigation policy.
Executive Summary
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services degradation and loss has gained business’ attention in recent years, but not that of the finance sector.
Opportunities for financial actors and governments in the budding forest carbon markets
Published: 2010 | by: UNEP FI Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Investment Insight 1.1 (46 KB | 4 pages)
Published: 2010 | by: UNEP FI Water and Finance: Investment Insight 1.1 (56 KB | 3 pages)
Water-related materiality briefings for financial institutions
Published: 2010 | by: UNEP FI Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Investment Insight 1.0 (179 KB | 4 pages)
Published: 2010 | by: UNEP FI Water and Finance: Investment Insight 1.0 (196 KB | 3 pages)
A review of the business case, loan conditions and current practice in financial institutions
A tool enabling institutional investors to understand the impacts and dependency of their investments on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Results achieved in the first application of the Ecosystem Services Benchmark tool on the global Food, Beverage and Tobacco sectors
Executive summary
Concrete guidance at the local level – The questions financial institutions should ask to better handle water challenges facing agribusiness actors throughout the world
Ecological balance is one of the key pillars of sustainable development.
Guidance on water risks and opportunities for lenders and investors.