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Adaptation Finance, Climate Change, Events, Latin America & Caribbean, Webinars | 23 October 2026

This webinar, held in Spanish and English, will introduce UNEP FI’s Adaptation Finance Taxonomy Playbook, a guide accompanied by a practical toolkit designed to help financial institutions navigate these challenges. Tailored for policy, compliance, investment and underwriting teams, the session will explore how taxonomies can be used to identify and classify adaptation activities, highlight emerging market practices, and share real-world examples relevant to Latin America and the Caribbean.

Events, Risk, Webinars | 23 October 2026

Join this webinar to explore the UNEP FI Risk Centre’s new Sustainability Disclosure Readiness Indicators Toolkit, a practical self-assessment tool designed to help organizations evaluate their preparedness for sustainability disclosures. The session will also present a series of complementary briefings on sector-specific disclosures, as well as the updated Sustainability Risk Tool Dashboard – launching soon, which maps leading sustainability risk tools and provides insights into their methodologies, metrics, assumptions and use cases.

Insurance, Nature, Publications | 22 October 2026

Nature should be viewed as a form of critical infrastructure. This briefing explores how ecosystem condition shapes climate-related risks and introduces the PSI Climate–Nature Nexus Atlas, a practical resource to support nature-aware underwriting.

Insurance, Nature, News | 22 October 2026

InsuranceERM has awarded the PSI Climate–Nature Nexus Atlas the Nature/Biodiversity Initiative of the Year, recognizing its contribution to evidence-based nature-aware underwriting and advancing industry understanding of the climate–nature nexus. 

Insurance, Nature, News, Risk | 22 October 2026

The PSI Nature-Aware Underwriting Toolkit is now available to PSI Members. Explore practical resources for integrating nature-related considerations into underwriting and contribute to the toolkit's continued development through testing and feedback via the UNEP FI Risk Centre.

Blue Finance, Events, Nature, Webinars | 21 October 2026

The session will examine key financing needs and opportunities in the blue economy, including: The connection between sustainable blue finance, responsible ocean use, and a just transition to a sustainable ocean economy; Financing approaches that strengthen coastal resilience and deliver positive outcomes for marine biodiversity; Scalable funding mechanisms that leverage contributions from ocean-based industries to create shared benefits for communities, businesses, and marine ecosystems; Emerging financing models for coastal resilience, ports, shipping, and related infrastructure. 

Nature, News | 19 October 2026

Europe is heading into COP17 after one of its hottest and driest summers on record. The extreme heat this year could reduce Europe's GDP by 1% — equivalent to €180 billion in economic damage. Resultant wildfires, drought, impacts on soil health, shrinking lakes and reservoirs, and depleted groundwater, all impact upon flora, fauna, agriculture and industry.

Insurance, Nature, Publications | 19 October 2026

Prepared by the Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) and the UNDP Insurance and Risk Finance Facility (IRFF) for CBD COP17, this briefing explores how insurers can support implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework through risk management, risk transfer and investment, while highlighting priorities for scaling insurance for nature and strengthening resilience through healthy ecosystems.

Nature, News | 16 October 2026

In the two years since COP16 in Cali, the finance sector has made significant progress in building the foundations for nature finance, but stronger action and clearer government policies are needed to meet global biodiversity targets for 2030. Financial institutions must redouble their efforts to mobilise finance, manage nature-related risks, and improve data and reporting – a supportive enabling environment is necessary for this to occur.

Nature, Publications | 15 October 2026

In the two years since COP16 in Cali, Colombia, the finance sector has made significant progress in building the foundations for nature finance. Yet financial flows remain fundamentally misaligned with global biodiversity goals. UNEP FI's 2026 report card finds that stronger action by financial institutions, alongside clearer government policies and regulations, is needed to meet the 2030 targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.