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As the global framework and gold standard for Sustainable Banking, the Principles for Responsible Banking need to continuously evolve in line with increasing ambition and new goals humanity defines. Signatories have made the important decision to strengthen the definition of the Principles’ climate ambition to specify that Signatory Banks, in accordance with the Paris Agreement, are expected to align their portfolios with a 1.5 degrees pathway.

Urgent action by world leaders to halt environmental degradation and biodiversity loss is needed. The WWF Living Planet Report, released…

Third edition of Target-Setting Protocol published, setting out pathway to reducing portfolio emissions for 84 major institutional investors including Aviva,…

By Marianne Haahr, Nature-related Finance Lead, Global Canopy COP15 in Montreal brought 2022 to a close with a new global…

Davos, 17 January 2023 – The United Nations-convened Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA) today launched the Alliance’s first Target-Setting Protocol at the…

Following the adoption of the historic resolution to forge an international legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution by 2024…

In the third and final blog post in our series on Gender, Climate and Finance, we shift our focus to…

In late 2021, 198 countries – signatories to the UNFCCC — agreed that “efforts towards the phasedown of unabated coal…

Today, a historic agreement was reached at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP 15): the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework which aims to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. Taking a similar approach to the Paris Climate Agreement, this framework sets a clear mandate for private financial flows to align with the 2050 Vision of “Living in harmony with Nature”, providing the finance sector with a landmark agreement for biodiversity-related financial-decision making.

Sebastian Bekker, Senior Programme Officer in UNEP-WCMC’s Nature Economy team, looks at how the ENCORE biodiversity module, a tool created…