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Asia Pacific, Events, News, Roundtable events, Roundtables | 23 March 2021
Regional Roundtable Asia Pacific 2021
UNEP FI is hosting its Regional Roundtable on Sustainable Finance for Asia Pacific as a virtual event on 1–3 June 2021, with the support of DB Insurance and RepRisk.
Events, Latin America & Caribbean, News, Training | 12 March 2021
Serie de Webinars sobre Ecosistemas y Finanzas Sostenibles en España y América Latina
UNEP FI, Finresp and Ecobusiness fund delivered a Series of Webinars on Ecosystems and Sustainable Finance from April to June 2021; webinars were conducted in Spanish.
Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, News | 05 March 2021
Dai-ichi Life Insurance is first Asian member of Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance
Japan’s Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company joins the United Nations-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, to become the first member based Asia.…
Banking, Climate Change, News, TCFD | 17 February 2021
Critical tools and recommendations for managing the climate transition for the banking industry
Geneva, 17 February 2021 – Transition risk poses a significant near-term threat to the economy. This is one of the…
Banking, Europe, News | 26 January 2021
26 banks test the application of the EU Taxonomy to core banking products
UNEP FI and the European Banking Federation (EBF) have launched a unique report assessing the extent to which the EU…
Africa & Middle East, Climate Change, News, Policy | 20 January 2021
New report sheds light on sustainable financing in Arab region and provides policy recommendations
A new report provides the first in-depth analysis of sustainable finance practices in a part of the world most vulnerable to the effects of climate change: the Arab region. Issues such as water scarcity, rising sea levels, drought, land degradation and desertification will have serious repercussions for food, energy and water security in this area. Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals – in particular those that help deal with the interlinked water-energy-food challenges – will be key to build resilient, fairer economies.
Insurance, News | 19 January 2021
World’s insurers and UN Environment Programme unveil state-of-the-art approaches to assessing climate-related physical, transition and litigation risks
Pioneering collaborative effort by insurers shows how climate change scenarios can be used to assess and disclose climate risks in…
Blue Finance, Nature, News | 20 November 2020
Investment & Pensions Europe: Storebrand Signs UN Healthy Oceans Framework
The Norwegian financial group said it had signed the United Nations-backed Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Principles, a guiding framework launched in 2018 for financing a sustainable ocean economy. Storebrand – one of Norway’s main occupational and personal pension providers – said the framework aimed to accelerate the transition towards sustainable use of the ocean and its resources by developing practical actions for insurers, lenders and investors to undertake.
Blue Finance, Nature, News | 28 October 2020
The global financial system is intimately linked to the ocean, says Peter Thomson of the United Nations
We cannot have a healthy planet without a healthy ocean, and in any global discussion on biodiversity the ocean must…
Blue Finance, GRT2020, Nature, News | 27 October 2020
Marine ecologist Enric Sala addresses the financial community
The blue economy is an attractive opportunity for banks and insurance companies, yet some players are rushing to invest without first adopting sustainability principles that can avoid repeating the wrongs of the past, says world-renowned ecologist Enric Sala.
