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Climate Change, Publications, Risk, TCFD | 21 July 2024

A Comprehensive Review of Global Supervisory Climate Stress Tests

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.

Banking, Climate Change, News, Pollution & Circular Economy, Principles for Responsible Banking | 18 July 2024

New resources to help banks operationalise the links between the circular economy and sustainability impacts

The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) releases the first reports in a new series of resources helping banks implement and benefit from the interlinkages between the circular economy and major sustainability challenges of climate change, nature loss, and pollution.

Banking, Pollution & Circular Economy, Principles for Responsible Banking, Publications, Target Setting | 18 July 2024

Circular Economy as an Enabler for Responsible Banking

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.

Events, Nature | 19 June 2024

Finance and Biodiversity Day at COP16

On behalf of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), UNEP FI is excited to officially announce the second Finance and Biodiversity Day is confirmed for Monday 28 October 2024, at COP16 in Cali, Colombia.