Publications

The Principles for Responsible Banking Guidance on Client Engagement provides banks with sector-agnostic guidelines on engaging clients, helping banks move beyond analysis and target-setting, towards implementation on their sustainability and impact targets and actions.

The Principles for Responsible Banking Guidance on Effective Governance provides a model for sustainability governance from the banking perspective, helping banks move beyond analysis and target-setting, towards implementation on their sustainability and impact targets and actions.

G20 countries play a pivotal role in the transition to a just and sustainable economy as they represent 85% the…

La Taxonomía de Finanzas Sostenibles de Costa Rica define qué es una inversión ambientalmente sostenible de manera estandarizada, estableciéndose un marco común de referencia que ayuda a los actores de la economía real y del sector financiero de Costa Rica a identificar aquellas inversiones que contribuyen al cumplimiento de los objetivos medio ambientales y sociales del país.

This document serves as a concise checklist summarising key requirements from the Guidelines for Climate Target Setting for Banks – Version 2, which members are expected to address on a comply-or-explain basis. Banks are encouraged to exceed these requirements where possible and consider all guidance provided in the complete Guidelines.

This report and its accompanying support document provide essential guidance on climate stress testing. It focuses on assessing the vulnerability of financial institutions to climate change impacts, identifying systemic risks, and enhancing informed decision-making. By addressing the lack of standardized, high-quality data, this guide helps regulators, central banks, policymakers, and financial institutions navigate data challenges.

A sectoral supplement to the climate-focused “Circular Solutions to Achieve Climate Targets”, this paper is designed to assist banks in integrating circular solutions in the buildings and construction sector as part of their climate transition plans to achieve net-zero emissions or climate mitigation targets, though a reduction of their financed emissions and through transition finance strategies.

A sectoral supplement to the climate-focused “Circular Solutions to Achieve Climate Targets”, this paper is designed to assist banks in integrating circular solutions in the textile sector as part of their climate transition plans to achieve net zero emissions or climate mitigation targets, though a reduction of their financed emissions and through transition finance strategies.

This report focuses on the nexus between circular economy and climate mitigation, outlining steps for banks to effectively embed circular solutions in their climate transition plans to achieve climate mitigation targets, including by increasing financing for circular solutions and opportunities, and through advocacy and partnerships with policymakers to enhance circularity.

This report is aimed at providing a general overview on operationalising the interlinkages between circular economy and climate, nature, pollution, and healthy and inclusive economies, encouraging banks to embed circularity into internal policies and processes, engage with clients in their transition to circular business models, redirect financial flows towards circular solutions and opportunities, and advocate for mainstreaming circularity.