Risk

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

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

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

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.

Banking, News, Risk | 22 July 2026

The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) today launched The Conceptual Framework for Sustainability Risk Integration that sets out a practical approach to help banks embed sustainability risks into core risk management practices, in response to growing supervisory expectations and technical challenges experienced by banks.

Banking, Publications, Risk | 22 July 2026

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.

Banking, Events, Global Roundtable, Insurance, Investment, Risk, Webinars | 16 July 2026

As a follow-up to the discussions at the UNEP FI Global Roundtable 2026 in June, this webinar will explore how financial institutions are enabling the real economy transition and strengthening resilience through financing, investment, and collaboration with the real economy. The session will highlight practical approaches to supporting the transition and provide participants with the opportunity to hear diverse perspectives from across the financial sector and the real economy.

Banking, Events, Risk, Webinars | 25 June 2026

In this webinar, UNEP FI’s Risk Centre will introduce its new Approach to Sustainability Risk Integration, which is launching first with a conceptual framework in July 2026, to help banks systematically integrate sustainability considerations into their existing frameworks. The webinar is designed for all risk professionals with an interest in sustainability issues.

Banking, Publications, Risk | 23 June 2026

Climate shocks, nature loss, pollution, and social pressures are affecting markets, asset values, and financial stability, and regulators worldwide are tightening expectations for how banks identify, measure, and manage these risks. This report, aimed at risk professionals at banks, assesses the extent to which sustainability risks are being integrated by the global banking sector.

Events, Insurance, North America, Risk, Social, Webinars | 06 May 2026

Climate change is increasingly linked to mental health risks, with implications for insurance risk assessment, claims and customer outcomes. This webinar introduces the Mental Health Integration Guide: A Tool for Insurers and explores how insurers can begin integrating these considerations across underwriting, claims and customer engagement.

Europe, Events, Policy, Risk, Webinars | 13 April 2026

This webinar will provide information on the EBA’s Guidelines on ESG Risk Management and how banks can prepare in this first year of implementation.