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A collection of events for UNEP Finance Initiative.

14 August 2018 Webinar

Webinar: Hear from participants in UNEP FI’s pilot implementing TCFD Recommendations with 16 banks

This Webinar will discuss the results of a collaboration between sixteen of the world’s leading banks with UN Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), and climate risk and adaptation advisory firm Acclimatise. The banks set out to develop and test a widely applicable scenario-based approach for estimating the impact of climate change on their corporate lending portfolios as recommended by the Recommendations of the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). Hear directly from the banks, climate consultants and UNEP FI secretariat involved in this project.

25-26 June 2018 San Jose, Costa Rica

Sustainable Finance In-House Training Workshops In Caja de Ande

UNEP FI and INCAE Business School / Ecobanking Project will be delivering two in-house training workshops on Sustainable Finance at Caja de Ande in San Jose (Costa Rica) on 25 and 26 June 2018. These workshops will include topics such as Environmental & Social Risk Analysis (ESRA), Green Products and Services Financing and Corporate Ecoefficiency.

25-27 June 2018 Ivory Coast

UNEP FI and Ecobanking Project delivered ESRA Training to Financial Institutions In Ivory Coast

UNEP FI and Ecobanking Project/INCAE Business School are partnering with the International Trade Centre (ITC), the African Guarantee Fund for Small and Medium Enterprises (AGF) and the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) to deliver a Training Workshop on Environmental and Social Risk Analysis (ESRA) with a focus on SME designed for financial institutions in Ivory Coast.

31 May 2018 Athens, Greece

Financing energy efficiency in Greece and Cyprus

This event, organised by the European Commission in partnership with UNEP FI and the Greek Ministry of Environment and Energy aims to share best practices from Greece and Cyprus as well as further countries on how energy efficiency investments can be financed, including through private sources of capital.

21 May 2018 EE Global, UN City, Copenhagen (Denmark)

Financing for efficient buildings: Learning from G20 and GlobalABC

In order to realise the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the energy transition, the global building stock needs to be made zero emission, efficient and resilient. As the world adds the equivalent of the floor space of the city of Paris in new construction every week, there is an urgent challenge to bring together those who finance this large amount of new construction with the policy-makers who can enable new construction finance to evolve towards zero emissions.

15 May 2018 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Shaping the sustainable insurance agenda in Latin America

The Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) were launched during the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro—two decades after the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio—also known as the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. This May, we’re going back to Rio for another pioneering event—the first PSI regional market event for Latin America.