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The Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance and Convergence Blended Finance announce the signing of a collaboration agreement to increase investment in…

UNEP FI, along with The Government of Suriname, SDG Joint Fund, UNDP, UNFPA and FAO will deliver a series of training sessions on Environmental and Social Risk Analysis (ESRA) for Suriname; Trainings will take place online in English on 1, 8, and 15 February, 2022.

Este año, en el Departamento de Capacitación de UNEP FI organizamos 16 Cursos Virtuales de tres semanas de duración y 15 eventos de sensibilización y formación sobre Finanzas Sostenibles. Formamos a casi 5.000 personas de más de 45 países en 2021, principalmente del sector financiero, y también de diversos ámbitos incluidos reguladores y supervisores financieros, empresas, el mundo académico y ONG, entre otros.

The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance was launched at the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit in 2019 and only celebrated…

The UNEP FI Regional Roundtable for Europe was held virtually on 10 and 11 November 2021 alongside COP26, and welcomed…

On 13 December, the senior leaders of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance’s Steering Group convened for the Alliance’s first annual Principals Meeting, wherein they reviewed the progress of the last year and made plans for 2022.

The UNEP FI Regional Roundtable for North America was held virtually as part of the first Sustainable Finance Summit with…

By Laxmi Aeshwarya Kumar, Project Specialist, UNEP FI, and Freya Bannochie, Policy Analyst, UK, PRI The COP26 summit in Glasgow has…

Since March 2021, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), the Agence Française de Développement Group (AFD and Expertise France, the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) delivered five online training workshops on “Integrating climate-related financial risks” in the Eastern Caribbean region, with a aim to prompt the development and implementation of climate-related regulations.

The blue (ocean) economy offers many opportunities for private finance to lend and invest in a sustainable and nature-positive way. Here we look at some of the leading examples of best practice in social and environmental sustainability across the coastal and marine tourism sector which banks, insurers and investors can seek out.