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Climate Change, Events, TCFD | 17 November 2021

A Comprehensive Guide to Climate Stress Testing

UNEP FI’s TCFD programme is launching a Comprehensive Good Practice Guide to Climate Stress Testing. The report aims to provide a detailed user guide for financial institutions looking to understand the climate stress testing and develop plans for effectively executing them.

Africa & Middle East, Climate Change, Publications, Risk | 11 November 2021

Climate risk regulation in Africa’s financial sector and related private sector initiatives

This report highlights the state of climate risk regulation in Africa’s financial sector and presents an analysis of the financial stability architecture and climate risk initiatives in 12 selected deep-dive countries. It also highlights challenges hindering the integration of climate risk by financial sector authorities in Africa and offers potential areas of support for the key stakeholders in the finance ecosystem.

Nature, News | 08 November 2021

Leading banking institutions launch the Banking for Impact on Climate in Agriculture (B4ICA)

The agriculture and land use sectors represent one quarter of global GHG emissions and banks financing companies and farmers along value chain experiencing data gaps and complexity on the calculation, tracking and target setting of emissions and decarbonization pathways for the agriculture sector . Banks now have a place to to address agriculture’s data gaps and complexity for the finance sector to engage into food and agriculture issues.