Publications

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.

This report and the accompanying tool address the gap in short-term climate scenario analysis, focusing on near-term risks, economic volatility, and systemic vulnerabilities.

This summary report concludes the implementation phase of the Legal Framework for Impact programme. It identifies the reasons why sustainability…

This report explores how banks can play a key role in making our buildings more energy efficient and contribute to their climate and resource efficiency goals, including those made under the Principles for Responsible Banking.

This report emphasises that achieving climate goals requires targeted retrofitting strategies and avoiding stranded assets, all underpinned by key performance indicators (KPIs) that track progress towards these ambitious environmental milestones.

This report offers an in-depth analysis of physical climate risk management to equip retail banks with tools to effectively assess, manage, and minimise physical climate risks in their business.

This latest report explores the challenges that companies, including financial institutions, could encounter concerning their management of critical climate data.  

This report is the fourth in a series of publications developed by members of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) with the goal of assisting banks by outlining the choices they face when setting climate-related targets for financing in various carbon-intensive sectors of the real economy.

The Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance uses this updated position to reiterate its call to policymakers to follow through on their Paris Agreement commitments and integrate carbon pricing into their climate policy toolkits.

The Climate Mitigation Journey (CMJ) is a manual for banks outlining the business capabilities they need to build and iterate for years to come as they are looking to align themselves with the Paris goal of 1.5°C global warming and net zero, as part of their commitments under the PRB and/or NZBA.