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Banking, Events, SDGs and Impact | 26 April 2021

One year after the launch of its first version, UNEP FI is pleased to launch Version 2 of the Portfolio Impact Analysis Tool for Banks.

Climate Change, Insurance, News | 21 April 2021

Geneva, 21 April 2021—Seven of the world’s leading insurers and reinsurers, working together with the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative, are currently in the process of establishing a pioneering Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA). The NZIA is expected to be launched at the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow this November (COP26).

Climate Change, News | 21 April 2021

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).

Blue Finance, Nature, News | 16 April 2021

Read about the conference hosted by the European Investment Bank and WWF, where Portugal, represented by Ricardo Serrão Santos, Minister of the Sea Republic of Portugal, endorsed the Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Principles and the EBRD and the Asian Development Bank were welcomed as recent signatories of the Principles.

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,…