Publications

Mental health impacts are emerging as a significant yet often overlooked consequence of climate change. From extreme weather events and…

This report provides guidance for banks on engaging with policymakers and industry stakeholders to accelerate the decarbonization of the aviation sector, a hard-to-abate industry characterized by long asset lifecycles, high capital intensity, and limited commercially viable low-carbon alternatives.

Road transport accounts for roughly 12% of global greenhouse gas emissions, with light-duty vehicles responsible for the majority of those emissions. Decarbonizing the sector requires coordinated action across vehicle manufacturing, charging infrastructure, grid decarbonization, and the social foundations of the shift.

This series of guidelines equips commercial banks and DFIs with a practical methodology to assess the circularity of client activities across portfolios and client segments across the textile and agriculture sectors, as well as buildings and construction, minerals and metals, and plastics (coming soon). The guidelines help institutions determine which activities are circular and, where circularity criteria are not yet met, identify targeted engagement opportunities to support clients’ transition toward more circular business models.

This policy brief co-authored by UNEP FI and the European Banking Federation (EBF) discusses potential levers and actions for policymakers and financial institutions to help aid the sustainability transition for the EU aviation and shipping subsectors within the transportation sector by strengthening the investment case and attracting finance. It is intended to support financial institutions in understanding how the EU aviation and shipping subsectors are evolving within the broader sustainability transition, including the key policies influencing this shift.

This report provides an overview of how financial institutions are developing decarbonization targets for maritime shipping, a hard-to-abate sector that underpins global trade. Drawing on the Poseidon Principles and evolving net-zero frameworks, the report sets out key methodological choices for banks, including the use of carbon intensity metrics aligned with IMO trajectories, definitions of emissions scope, and approaches to portfolio coverage and data quality.

This report provides an overview of how banks are approaching decarbonization target-setting in the aviation sector, a hard-to-abate industry with growing emissions and limited short-term alternatives for decarbonization. This practical guidance is intended to help banks develop, refine, and implement aviation-related transition strategies in line with evolving methodologies and data availability.

This report provides an overview of how financial institutions are developing decarbonization targets for cement, a hard-to-abate sector. It sets out key methodological choices for banks, including the use of physical emission intensity metrics, definitions of emissions scope and approaches to portfolio coverage and data quality.

This Spanish-language guide, tailored for banking practitioners and sustainability professionals, provides practical measures to address climate mitigation and transition across an organization’s banking and corporate functions within the Latin America & Caribbean (LAC) region.

Issued in the context of the 2026 UN Financing for Development (FFD) Forum, where governments, business and finance reconvened following…