07 March 2023Climate Change, Publications, Risk, TCFD
Nature
Connecting Finance and Natural Capital: A Supplement to the Natural Capital Protocol
Ignoring impacts and dependencies on natural capital poses material risk to finance sector New framework provides guidance on importance of…
Natural Capital: the enabler
Natural Capital – the enabler: Anders Nordheim, Programme Leader – Ecosystems and Sustainable Land Use: UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative…
New Tools on the block for the Financial Sector and Natural Capital
Forty years ago this year, I stood on the summit of the second largest mountain in Borneo and looked down…
Blue Finance, Nature, News | 19 September 2017
UNEP FI to contribute to unprecedented effort to place sustainability at the heart of global commodity supply chains
UNEP FI is joining forces with the world’s largest conservation, development and finance organizations to catalyze the sustainable transformation of global commodity supply chains around the world.
Nature, NCFA, News | 20 June 2017
Blog from Natural Capital Finance Alliance: Extreme drought major threat to banks’ loan portfolios
On World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, Raj Singh of the Natural Capital Finance Alliance looks at how the global…
Blue Finance, Nature, News | 29 May 2017
Call to collaborate via piloting on the Finance Sector Supplement to the Natural Capital Protocol
May 2017 We are pleased to announce an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of the Finance Sector Supplement…
Banking, NCFA, Publications | 06 April 2017
Drought Stress Testing Tool
The ‘Drought Stress Testing Tool’ enables banks to assess if a client may be at risk from drought and how drought…
Innovative New Tool Helps Banks Understand Risk of Loan Default Caused By Drought
LONDON, 5th April, 2017 A ground-breaking, open source tool which allows banks to test their loan portfolios for vulnerability to major…
Events, NCFA, News | 02 March 2017
Making Financial Institutions more Resilient to Environmental Risks: Launch of Drought Stress Testing Tool
In a pilot project on Environmental Stress Testing, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Natural Capital Finance Alliance (NCFA), have developed an analytical framework and tool that allows banks to quantify and assess the potential impact of drought events on the performance of their corporate loan portfolio. The project has been funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The tool will be launched at a series of events: 7th March in Mexico City, 10th March in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 14th March in Beijing, China, 17th March in New York, USA and 5th April in London, UK.
Blue Finance, Nature, News | 17 November 2016
Commit to taking positive action on biodiversity: sign the Business and Biodiversity Pledge
The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity [CBD], together with the Government of Mexico, is inviting businesses to become…