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Banking, Nature, Publications | 16 September 2026

Asking Better Questions on Nature: For Bank Chief Risk Officers and Risk Committees

This guide helps risk professionals at banks gather the information they need to monitor and manage nature-related risks and opportunities across their portfolios. Structured around ten questions, the guide helps banks better understand their nature-related impacts, capabilities, and management practices – and turn that understanding into greater resilience and future opportunities. 

Banking, Nature, News, Pollution & Circular Economy | 10 September 2026

Helping banks advance nature goals through circular finance

The new "Circular Solutions to Achieve Nature Targets" guidance aims to help banks address nature-related impacts and dependencies by integrating circular economy considerations across their portfolios and operations. Focusing on three ecosystems - ocean and marine, freshwater, and terrestrial and land ecosystems - it provides examples of high-impact sectors to address, practical actions for institutions to take and case studies illustrating emerging banking practices.

Banking, Nature, Pollution & Circular Economy, Principles for Responsible Banking, Publications | 10 September 2026

Circular Solutions to Achieve Nature Targets

This report provides commercial banks, particularly signatories to the Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB), with a practical framework for understanding how circular economy solutions can address nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities across three ecosystem categories: ocean and marine, freshwater, and terrestrial and land-based ecosystems.

Events, Nature | 30 July 2026

UNEP FI at COP17: Taking stock of progress on nature‑related finance

At COP17, UNEP FI will mobilize its network of members and partners to highlight the critical role of finance in protecting and restoring nature. Throughout the conference, UNEP FI will showcase progress on biodiversity finance since the adoption of the GBF, spotlight leading initiatives, commitments and innovations from across the finance sector, and advance dialogue on what is still needed to align global financial flows with biodiversity goals.

Asia Pacific, Banking, Nature, News, Principles for Responsible Banking | 16 July 2026

Transitioning to a Nature Positive Economy | Asia Pacific Case Studies

Supporting clients in the transition to a nature-positive economy means embedding nature into client engagement, supporting clients through advice, financial products and solutions, and capacity building. This is both an environmental and strategic imperative. In Asia Pacific, where economies are closely tied to natural systems, enabling client transition can reduce portfolio risk, strengthen resilience, and unlock new business opportunities.

Nature, News | 07 July 2026

On the road to COP17: A conversation with Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity

In this interview, Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, reflects on progress against key GBF finance targets, the opportunities for banks and insurers to support a nature‑positive transition, the importance of gender‑responsive finance and leadership, and why strong engagement from the finance sector will be critical at COP17.

Blue Finance, Nature, News | 08 June 2026

What whales can tell us about the future of ocean finance: an opportunity to shape new public–private finance mechanism

In this article, we explain why conserving ocean biodiversity is increasingly material to financial institutions and invite banks and insurers to help design new financial vehicles under One Ocean Finance – a new initiative led by UN agencies and global partners to boost finance for ocean-dependent industries and blue economy sectors.

Africa & Middle East, Asia Pacific, Europe, Events, Nature, Policy, Webinars | 28 April 2026

Supervision of Nature-Related Financial Risks: Challenges and Opportunities for Financial Institutions and Supervisors

This session will focus on the NGFS recommendations for Supervisors in implementing a nature-related supervisory framework, as showcased in its "Note on the Supervision of Nature-related Financial Risks". It presents an opportunity for financial institutions to understand upcoming regulatory requirements on nature risk and how to adapt their risk management practices.