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Climate Change, Europe, Events, Investment, News | 24 April 2017

The members of the Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition (PDC), a UNEP FI-convened platform of 30 leading investors worldwide committed to taking bold portfolio action in response to climate change, are convening this week in Stockholm, at the invitation and under the auspices of Scandinavian pension company Storebrand/SPP, a member of the PDC Steering Committee.

Banking, NCFA, Publications | 06 April 2017

The ‘Drought Stress Testing Tool’ enables banks to assess if a client may be at risk from drought and how drought…

Nature, News | 05 April 2017

LONDON, 5th April, 2017 A ground-breaking, open source tool which allows banks to test their loan portfolios for vulnerability to major…

News, Social | 03 March 2017

Building on ten years of efforts to advance the finance and human rights agenda with its members, UNEP FI is…

Events, NCFA, News | 02 March 2017

In a pilot project on Environmental Stress Testing, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Natural Capital Finance Alliance (NCFA), have developed an analytical framework and tool that allows banks to quantify and assess the potential impact of drought events on the performance of their corporate loan portfolio. The project has been funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The tool will be launched at a series of events: 7th March in Mexico City, 10th March in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 14th March in Beijing, China, 17th March in New York, USA and 5th April in London, UK.

News, Social | 15 February 2017

The online Guidance Tool on Human Rights for the Finance Sector is UNEP FI’s trusted tool to assist lenders in…

SDGs and Impact | 02 February 2017

About Based on a unique theory of impact, UNEP FI works with its members and peer sustainability initiatives to mainstream…

News, Social | 01 February 2017

UNEP FI shares its report with takeaways from the 2016 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, which took place in…

News, Social | 31 January 2017

Foley Hoag LLP and UNEP FI collaborated on a research paper offering a legal analysis of the current banking and…

Banking, Investment, Publications, SDGs and Impact | 30 January 2017

The Principles for Positive Impact Finance provide guidance for financiers and investors to analyse, monitor and disclose the social, environmental and…