Climate Change

Banking, Climate Change, Net Zero Banking, News | 21 April 2021

Geneva, Wednesday 21 April. Today, on the eve of President Biden’s Head of State Climate Summit, Mark Carney (the UK…

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, News | 21 April 2021

21 April 2021 – The United Nations-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance today announces a tripling in membership from its launch…

Climate Change, Publications, Risk | 20 April 2021

UNEP FI has partnered with MinterEllison to examine the impact of litigation in adaptation finance and address some of the challenges in scaling up adaptation capital identified in the GCA Adaptation Finance Paper published in 2019. This collaboration led to the publication of “The Forgotten Climate-related Financial Risk: Liability Impacts on Adaptation and Adaptation Finance“ in April 2021. 

Adaptation Finance, Climate Change, News | 20 April 2021

The fifth edition of the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report (2020) found that 72% of countries have adopted at least one…

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Events | 20 April 2021

Mark Carney, the UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance - in partnership with the UK COP26 Presidency and the UN Race to Zero campaign - are launching a coordinating alliance that brings together existing and new net zero finance initiatives into one sector-wide strategic forum: The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ).

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Investment, News | 15 April 2021

The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance has today released a new resource designed to help asset owners set expectations for,…

Climate Change, Publications, Thought Leadership | 13 April 2021

UNEP FI has partnered with EIT Climate-KIC to bring the Thought Leadership Series, which presents papers from some of the world’s…

Climate Change, Events, Webinars | 16 March 2021

To explore adaptation finance from a litigation perspective, UNEP FI has collaborated with MinterEllison to examine how litigation may increase or reduce the barriers to adaptation finance identified in the earlier reports. The output of this collaboration, a high-level briefing paper "The Forgotten Climate-related Financial Risk: Liability Impacts on Adaptation and Adaptation Finance", will be launched at this event.

Climate Change, Events, Webinars | 16 March 2021

Join UNEP FI and EIT Climate-KIC for the launch of the 5th and 6th papers of this Thought Leadership Series: “Making Green Bonds Serve the Climate Goals" (Massamba Thioye, UNFCCC) and "Financial Stability in a Planetary Emergency: the role of regulators in a burning world" (James Vaccaro, Director of Re:Pattern, & David Barmes, Economist at Positive Money).

Asset Owner Alliance, News | 12 March 2021

A core focus area of the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance is Financing the Transition. To address this, the Alliance…