Pollution & Circular Economy

Banking, Climate Change, Pollution & Circular Economy, Principles for Responsible Banking, Publications | 03 December 2025

This report focuses on the nexus between circular economy and climate mitigation, outlining steps for banks to effectively embed circular solutions in their climate transition plans to achieve their net-zero and climate mitigation targets. It is supported by four sector supplements, guiding banks to develop sector-specific financing action plans that promote circular economy principles in high impact sectors with significant circularity potential, namely agrifood, buildings and construction, textiles, and metals and minerals.

Pollution & Circular Economy, Publications | 01 December 2025

This paper outlines a structured approach to unlock circular economy financing by making circular economics work and strengthening evidence of the circular economy’s value proposition. It sets out complementary roles and possible actionable priorities for governments, financial regulators and central banks, public and private financial institutions. 

Latin America & Caribbean, Pollution & Circular Economy, Publications | 20 November 2025

The Circular Economy (CE) Finance project in Latin America aims to empower financial institutions to scale up CE investments, particularly benefiting micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), by addressing systemic barriers, improving taxonomy integration, and building internal capacities of financial institutions.

Banking, Pollution & Circular Economy, Publications | 31 October 2025

This series helps banks addressing pollution, one of the three planetary crises alongside climate change and biodiversity loss. The first sectoral supplement offers banks a practical framework to start reducing pollution impacts and manage risks related to the buildings and construction sector within their portfolios.

Banking, Events, Pollution & Circular Economy, Webinars | 31 July 2025

This webinar will present two new sector-specific guidance documents on pollution reduction and management in the agriculture, and in the buildings & construction sectors. These sector briefs offer tailored insights into how banks can support pollution reduction across two high-impact sectors, with recommendations on setting practice targets and actions to accelerate implementation.

Climate Change, Nature, News, Pollution & Circular Economy | 05 June 2025

As we mark World Environment Day, it is now more important than ever for communities across the globe to take bold action and ensure lasting solutions to beat plastic pollution.

Events, Latin America & Caribbean, Pollution & Circular Economy, Training | 09 January 2025

El objetivo de este programa de capacitación es promover el financiamiento de iniciativas de economía circular del sector empresarial en Chile y fortalecer a las instituciones financieras para que puedan ampliar sus carteras en iniciativas de economía circular que contribuyan a la descarbonización del país.

Banking, Climate Change, Insurance, Investment, Nature, News, Pollution & Circular Economy, SDGs and Impact, Social | 05 December 2024

As we close the chapter on 2024, the imperative for the financial sector to spearhead the transition to a more…

Banking, Climate Change, News, Pollution & Circular Economy, Principles for Responsible Banking | 18 July 2024

The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) releases the first reports in a new series of resources helping banks implement and benefit from the interlinkages between the circular economy and major sustainability challenges of climate change, nature loss, and pollution.

Banking, Pollution & Circular Economy, Principles for Responsible Banking, Publications, Target Setting | 18 July 2024

This report is aimed at providing a general overview on operationalising the interlinkages between circular economy and climate, nature, pollution, and healthy and inclusive economies, encouraging banks to embed circularity into internal policies and processes, engage with clients in their transition to circular business models, redirect financial flows towards circular solutions and opportunities, and advocate for mainstreaming circularity.