07 March 2023Climate Change, Publications, Risk, TCFD
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Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Events, Investment, News | 17 January 2022
Increasing ambition and expanding scope: NZAOA Target Setting Protocol V.2
This webinar, co-hosted by UNEP FI and PRI, brought together leading actors from the U.N.-Convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance to…
Climate Change, Publications, Risk, TCFD | 14 January 2022
Leadership strategies for client engagement: Advancing climate-related assessments
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
Climate Tango: Principles for integrating physical and transition climate risk assessment with sectoral examples
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.
Climate stress testing is here: 4 ways your firm can prepare
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
Investor Agenda highlights best practices from leading global investors
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
Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance and Convergence Blended Finance collaborate on climate investment solutions
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
Recommendations for Credible Net-Zero Commitments from Financial Institutions
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 Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance new year countdown: a review of 2021 and a vision for 2022
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
8 examples of best practice to sustainably finance the coastal and marine tourism sector
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
The time to unlock financing for biodiversity protection is now
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.