The Natural Capital Declaration (NCD), co-convened by the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the Global Canopy Programme (GCP), announces the launch of the ‘Advancing Environmental Risk Management’ work programme. To be completed over two-and-a-half years from November 2015, the project aims to help catalyse sustainable investments and lending globally by reducing risks from environmental and natural resource pressures. The project will support the development of global methodologies to quantify risk and a have a focus on emerging markets such as South Africa, Indonesia, Colombia and Peru.
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