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Events, Risk, Webinars | 23 October 2026

Turning sustainability disclosures into risk insights: New sustainability risk management tools and research

Join this webinar to explore the UNEP FI Risk Centre’s new Sustainability Disclosure Readiness Indicators Toolkit, a practical self-assessment tool designed to help organizations evaluate their preparedness for sustainability disclosures. The session will also present a series of complementary briefings on sector-specific disclosures, as well as the updated Sustainability Risk Tool Dashboard – launching soon, which maps leading sustainability risk tools and provides insights into their methodologies, metrics, assumptions and use cases.

Banking, Events, Principles for Responsible Banking, Risk, Webinars | 12 October 2026

The Role of Risk in Responsible Banking

This session will explore the role of the risk function in responsible banking, drawing on the newly published, "A Chief Risk Officer's Guide to the Principles for Responsible Banking". It will set out how Chief Risk Officers and their teams can implement the Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) through the bank's existing risk management framework, and share the practical actions the Guide sets out across seven core risk element.

Publications, Risk | 08 October 2026

Enhancing sustainability-related disclosures

The UNEP FI Risk Centre has developed a series of resources to help risk professionals at financial institutions better understand and use sustainability-related disclosures within prudential risk management. The series is anchored in the Conceptual Framework for Sustainability Risk Integration, which sets out seven core elements for embedding sustainability-related considerations into existing risk management processes.

Banking, Principles for Responsible Banking, Publications, Risk | 21 September 2026

A Chief Risk Officer’s Guide to the Principles for Responsible Banking

A Chief Risk Officer’s Guide to the Principles for Responsible Banking explains how CROs and their teams can implement the PRB through the bank’s existing risk management framework. It connects each of the six Principles to the core elements of risk management, with practical actions, questions to ask, and case studies from signatory banks.

Banking, Nature, Publications, Risk | 16 September 2026

Asking Better Questions on Nature: For Bank Chief Risk Officers and Risk Committees

This guide helps risk professionals at banks gather the information they need to monitor and manage nature-related risks and opportunities across their portfolios. Structured around ten questions, the guide helps banks better understand their nature-related impacts, capabilities, and management practices – and turn that understanding into greater resilience and future opportunities. 

News, Risk | 08 September 2026

From emerging risk to strategic advantage: why integrating sustainability into bank risk management matters

Over the past decade and a half, banks have significantly strengthened their risk management frameworks. In the wake of the global financial crisis in 2008, institutions invested heavily in governance, controls, stress testing, and capital adequacy to better manage credit, market, liquidity and operational risks. Today, however, a new category of risk drivers is reshaping the landscape: sustainability-related risks related to climate change, nature loss, pollution and social pressures.

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Banking, Publications, Risk | 22 July 2026

Conceptual Framework for Sustainability Risk Integration

This conceptual framework sets out how sustainability risks should be considered across the seven core elements of risk management: risk strategy, governance, risk identification, measurement and materiality, risk taxonomy and scope, risk appetite, risk management actions, and risk monitoring and reporting. Its purpose is to help banking risk professionals integrate sustainability risks fully into their risk management frameworks, enabling them to meet evolving regulatory expectations while strengthening resilience, safeguarding capital, and supporting better-informed decision-making.