Climate Change

Asset Owner Alliance, Banking, Climate Change, Events, Podcasts | 19 January 2021

Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance, spoke to UNEP FI on navigating the climate crisis, climate disclosures, the Principles for Responsible Banking and the UN-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance.

Insurance, News, TCFD | 19 January 2021

A group of 22 leading insurers and reinsurers convened by UNEP FI has published the first comprehensive guidance for the insurance industry to identify and disclose the impact of climate change on their businesses.

Climate Change, Insurance, Publications, Risk | 19 January 2021

22 leading insurers and reinsurers from across the globe worked with UNEP FI to develop the first comprehensive guidance for…

Asset Owner Alliance, Publications | 16 January 2021

The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance has released the Inaugural 2025 Target Setting Protocol after consultation on the draft, issued…

Asset Owner Alliance, Publications | 15 January 2021

In the recovery from the global coronavirus pandemic, government spending and recovery packages will play a pivotal role in underpinning…

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Investment, News | 13 January 2021

The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance publishes the final Inaugural 2025 Target Setting Protocol, as individual members begin setting their own 2025 decarbonization targets, to ensure a transition to net-zero emissions by 2050.

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Investment, News | 07 January 2021

As members of the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (AoA), we welcome and commend important advancements in the recently-released 2020 World Energy Outlook – in particular, the first-ever inclusion of a net zero by 2050 case to supplement the Sustainable Development Scenario. To help enable a rapid and smooth global transition to net zero emissions by 2050 it is vital that this scenario is expanded into a more robust, comprehensive and central scenario in next year’s iteration of the WEO.

Asset Owner Alliance, Publications | 15 December 2020

In the last year, the world has seen an unprecedented acceleration towards a net-zero economy. Governments, companies, financial institutions, cities…

Climate Change, News | 14 December 2020

On the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement, UNEP FI announced its membership of a group of leading finance coalitions that will coordinate their efforts to secure high ambition commitments from private finance institutions by COP26 in November 2021. The coalition will support the COP26 presidency and the Race to Zero in mobilising action across the finance sector.

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Investment, News, Themes | 10 December 2020

COP26 Champions welcome study as enabling rapid net-zero transition Geneva, 10 December 2020 – Based on the 2019 One Earth…