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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.

Geneva/Cape Town/Johannesburg, 9 April 2018—The United Nations and Santam, South Africa’s largest general insurer, will co-host this month the first…

Geneva/Cape Town/Johannesburg, 9 April 2018—The United Nations and Santam, South Africa’s largest general insurer, will co-host this month the first…

Managing risk on two sides: The unique challenges of integrating ESG for the insurance industry Monday, April 30th, 09:30 EST…

Sustainable finance is experiencing continued rapid growth. The European Commission’s recent proposal of a taxonomy as a common language for…

In a remarkable development at the end of March, French President, Emmanuel Macron, and European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, launched…

In line with one of the proposed Ghana Banking principles of promoting customers to integrate Environmental Social Governance (ESG) in…

In partnership with the BrightTalk ESG summit, UNEP FI will be presenting updates on three work streams related to the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the SDGs. Financial institutions have a key role to play in implementing the world's agreed goals.

UNEP FI Head, Eric Usher writes about how the Positive Impact Finance Initiative is working with financial institutions to close the…

  Beijing, 28 March 2018 The United Nations Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), The…