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Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Industries, Investment, News, Themes | 13 March 2023

The Emerging Markets Transition Investment (EMTI) project, supported by the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, released a second paper in its Code Red! Series. The paper outlines guiding principles for responsible and effective engagement in emerging markets and developing economies.

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Investment, News | 17 February 2023

Opening remarks to the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance-hosted roundtable discussion at the Munich Security Conference by Günther Thallinger, Chair of…

Banking, Europe, News, Principles for Responsible Banking | 17 February 2023

UNEP FI has been reappointed as an observer in the new mandate EU Platform on Sustainable Finance. This platform seeks to promote dialogue and close cooperation among a wide range of stakeholders from the public and private sector which will be crucial to deliver on the aims of the EU Taxonomy Regulation and ultimately of the European green and the EU climate targets for 2030 and 2050.

Banking, Climate Change, News, Principles for Responsible Banking | 09 February 2023

As the global framework and gold standard for Sustainable Banking, the Principles for Responsible Banking need to continuously evolve in line with increasing ambition and new goals humanity defines. Signatories have made the important decision to strengthen the definition of the Principles’ climate ambition to specify that Signatory Banks, in accordance with the Paris Agreement, are expected to align their portfolios with a 1.5 degrees pathway.

Nature, News | 02 February 2023

Urgent action by world leaders to halt environmental degradation and biodiversity loss is needed. The WWF Living Planet Report, released…

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Industries, Investment, News, Themes | 31 January 2023

Third edition of Target-Setting Protocol published, setting out pathway to reducing portfolio emissions for 84 major institutional investors including Aviva,…

Climate Change, Insurance, Net Zero Insurance, News | 17 January 2023

Davos, 17 January 2023 – The United Nations-convened Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA) today launched the Alliance’s first Target-Setting Protocol at the…

Banking, Insurance, News, Pollution & Circular Economy | 17 January 2023

Following the adoption of the historic resolution to forge an international legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution by 2024…

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Industries, Investment, News | 20 December 2022

In late 2021, 198 countries – signatories to the UNFCCC — agreed that “efforts towards the phasedown of unabated coal…

Banking, Insurance, News | 13 December 2022

At the end of November, UNEP FI convened its Leadership Council of CEOs of banks and insurers to explore how sustainable…