Publications

In this review summarizing the achievements of UNEP FI and its network of members during the years 2022 and 2023, find out how UNEP FI continued to help banks and insurers implement the industry frameworks, the Principles for Responsible Banking and the Principles for Sustainable Insurance, as well as the progress of the groundbreaking UN-convened net-zero alliances.

Navigating Pollution : A Blueprint for the Banking Sector serves as a guide for banks addressing pollution, one of the three planetary crises alongside climate change and biodiversity loss.

Women and girls represent half of the world’s population and therefore also half of its potential. But gender inequality persists…

UNEP FI and WWF’s Greening Financial Regulation Initiative have jointly authored a new publication, Navigating Nature-related Regulations for Banks: Mapping…

The Impact Mappings are intended to provide a starting point to understand Needs, Portfolio impact associations, and Interlinkages between impact topics. These resources were produced as part of the UNEP FI…

Set on tackling the Scope 3 or ‘hidden’ emissions, the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance conducts an in-depth sectoral analysis to…

Building on the Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI)’s long-standing work on nature-related issues over the past decade, the PSI Working…

Th Implementation Journey expands on the foundations set out in the PRB’s 3 Key Steps, demonstrating Principle by Principle how responsible banking can be defined in practice. It showcases the diverse range of actions banks can take on their progressive and continuous journey. 

Since its launch in 2019, over 350 banks – representing approximately 54% of global banking assets – have chosen to…

The UN Environmental Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) launched the Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) in 2019. Five years on…