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Aligning financial portfolios with biodiversity goals: discover the new addition to the ENCORE tool
In a critical decade for climate and nature, banks and investors can now explore their portfolio’s impact on species extinction…
Climate Change, Investment, News | 20 May 2021
New ICAP framework drives investor action on climate crisis, accelerating transition to net-zero
The founding partners of The Investor Agenda released today a new tool to enable institutional investors to step up action…
Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Investment, News | 14 May 2021
The ASCOR Project: Assessing Sovereign Climate-related Opportunities and Risks
Asset owners, BT Pension Scheme and the Church of England Pensions Board, alongside the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (AOA),…
Events, Nature, NCFA, News | 04 May 2021
Aligning Financial Portfolios with Biodiversity Goals
The new, ground-breaking biodiversity module within the ENCORE tool enables financial institutions to identify risks and opportunities, in order to…
Banking, Events, Impact Centre | 26 April 2021
Launch: Portfolio Impact Analysis Tool for Banks – Version 2
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
World’s leading insurers and reinsurers and UN Environment Programme to establish pioneering Net-Zero Insurance Alliance
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).
Banking, Climate Change, Net Zero Banking, News | 21 April 2021
43 banks launch Net-Zero Banking Alliance as key part of consolidated Glasgow COP climate action
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
Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance more than triples membership to 37 since 2019 launch
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
Liability Risk and Adaptation Finance
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.
