Events

Hosted by Climate Action and UNEP FI, the 6th Annual Sustainable Investment Forum Europe returns to Paris at the Pullman Paris Eiffel Tower on the 9th May 2023. UNEP FI has a limited number of complimentary guest passes for UNEP FI members. If you would like to attend, please write to us. Bringing ...
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While investors are making commitments to decarbonise their investment portfolios, there remains a significant methodological gap—there is no internationally-agreed framework for assessing the climate-related risks and opportunities associated with sovereign debt instruments. The solution to the issue would be a publicly available, independent, and open-source investor framework/database to assess the ...
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The UNEP 2022 Emissions Gap Report highlighted the urgency of halving global emissions by 2030, to get on the pathway of net zero emissions by mid-century. Heavy industries and emerging economies are central to this challenge, where innovative decarbonization solutions are yet to be developed or deployed at scale. Evidence from ...
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The 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – COP27 – brought together heads of state, ministers and negotiators, along with climate activists, mayors, civil society representatives and CEOs in November 2022 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, for the largest annual gathering on climate action ...
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The Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, Asset Managers Initiative, Insurance Alliance, and Banking Alliance have committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Convened by PRI and UNEP FI, these alliances unite the industry leaders in climate action. What do their net-zero commitments entail and how can financial institutions (FIs) deliver on ...
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Ahead of the IMF/World Bank Annual Meeting and the 27th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 27), this forum elevated the topic of blended finance to decision makers at the highest level, without whom progress is impossible. The agenda included ...
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The Investor Agenda is hosting a webinar around investor momentum on climate policy to publicly mark the launch of the 2022 Global Investor Statement. Taking place within the context of high-level climate policy discussions at the UN General Assembly’s 77th meeting, and ahead of New York Climate Week, the webinar ...
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Presented by the PRI, the session will begin with an overview of the “A Legal Framework for Impact” report followed by a presentation of key findings from the legal analysis of EU jurisdiction and areas of reform. The session will then explore the understanding of investing for sustainability impact in ...
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This event is the first in a series on Climate-aligned investing in Africa run by UNEP FI. A first step towards adaptation to future climate change is reducing vulnerability and exposure to present climate variability. Significant co-benefits, synergies and trade-offs exist between mitigation and adaptation and among different adaptation responses ...
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This webinar, co-hosted by UNEP FI and PRI, brought together leading actors from the U.N.-Convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance to present the second edition of the Alliance Target Setting Protocol (TSP2). The authors of the Protocol discussed key adjustments to the first edition, including: Expansion of asset classes (target setting ...
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