Themes

Climate Change, Publications, Risk, TCFD | 14 January 2022

This report is designed to support the financial sector to improve assessment and interactions with clients in line with net zero plans. It has been created as part of the UNEP FI TCFD programme and builds on the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s Banking Environment Initiative Let’s Discuss Climate: the essential guide to bank-client engagement.

Climate Change, Publications, Risk, TCFD | 14 January 2022

This report produced by the UNEP FI TCFD programme and ClimateWise explores the combined financial impact of physical and transition risks. It includes theoretical principles and practical steps for implementation of an integrated assessment of physical and transition risks with examples of sectoral analysis.

News, TCFD | 12 January 2022

This original article was published on Forbes and can be found here – by David Carlin, TCFD Programme Lead, UNEP…

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Investment, News | 12 January 2022

To generate worldwide momentum that will lead to more institutional investors implementing bold climate action plans, the Investor Agenda published…

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, News | 11 January 2022

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

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Publications | 10 January 2022

This paper sets out a high-level framework for what a credible, transparent and comparable 1.5°C science-based commitment looks like and what it will mean for the real economy transition. By defining net-zero, this guidance helps financial institutions achieve consistency in target setting and implementation of their net-zero goals.

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, News | 22 December 2021

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

Blue Finance, Nature, News | 14 December 2021

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. 

Banking, Blue Finance, Nature, News | 09 December 2021

Read Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP's speech on the global biodiversity funding gap, and why negotiators finalizing the Global Biodiversity Framework can help to unlock private and public finance at a massive scale by setting the enabling environment for alignment of finance to nature. Includes what the climate space has taught us about using alignment to shift finance and the need to focus on action in food systems which will be particularly critical.

Asset Owner Alliance, News | 08 December 2021

Statement by Günther Thallinger, Allianz SE Board Member and Chair UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, on the Sunrise Project publication…