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Asset Owner Alliance, Publications | 15 January 2021

In the recovery from the global coronavirus pandemic, government spending and recovery packages will play a pivotal role in underpinning…

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Investment, News | 13 January 2021

The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance publishes the final Inaugural 2025 Target Setting Protocol, as individual members begin setting their own 2025 decarbonization targets, to ensure a transition to net-zero emissions by 2050.

Events, Nature | 08 January 2021

Many companies are already setting climate science based targets (SBTs) to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Companies are now also considering nature science based targets in order to operate within planetary boundaries. Join a webinar co-hosted by UNEP FI and PRI for more.

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Investment, News | 07 January 2021

As members of the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (AoA), we welcome and commend important advancements in the recently-released 2020 World Energy Outlook – in particular, the first-ever inclusion of a net zero by 2050 case to supplement the Sustainable Development Scenario. To help enable a rapid and smooth global transition to net zero emissions by 2050 it is vital that this scenario is expanded into a more robust, comprehensive and central scenario in next year’s iteration of the WEO.

Blue Finance, Nature, News | 22 December 2020

In this op-ed originally published for The Economist Group’s World Ocean Initiative, Eric Usher, Head of UNEP FI, calls for…

Asset Owner Alliance, Publications | 15 December 2020

In the last year, the world has seen an unprecedented acceleration towards a net-zero economy. Governments, companies, financial institutions, cities…

Climate Change, News | 14 December 2020

On the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement, UNEP FI announced its membership of a group of leading finance coalitions that will coordinate their efforts to secure high ambition commitments from private finance institutions by COP26 in November 2021. The coalition will support the COP26 presidency and the Race to Zero in mobilising action across the finance sector.

Blue Finance, Nature, News | 11 December 2020

With calls to ‘build back better’ after the COVID-19 pandemic, how can insurance companies take a leadership role in transitioning…

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Investment, News, Themes | 10 December 2020

COP26 Champions welcome study as enabling rapid net-zero transition Geneva, 10 December 2020 – Based on the 2019 One Earth…

Banking, Climate Change, News | 08 December 2020

Today, UNEP FI published a summary of the first reporting from the 38 banks who are signatories to the Collective Commitment to Climate Action (CCCA), the most ambitious global banking sector initiative supporting the transition to a net zero economy by 2050.