Climate Change

Climate Change, Investment, News | 01 June 2021

Geneva, Tuesday 1 June. The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) are…

Climate Change, Events, Insurance | 27 May 2021

Co-hosted by the UN-convened SIF, UN PSI and the IAIS, this webinar will present the climate change risks and opportunities for the insurance sector and introduce the Application Paper on the Supervision of Climate-related Risks in the Insurance Sector.

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Investment, News | 27 May 2021

The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance announced the addition of five new members managing nearly one trillion US dollars of…

Climate Change, Investment, News | 20 May 2021

The founding partners of The Investor Agenda released today a new tool to enable institutional investors to step up action…

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Investment, News | 14 May 2021

Asset owners, BT Pension Scheme and the Church of England Pensions Board, alongside the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (AOA),…

Climate Change, Insurance, News | 21 April 2021

Geneva, 21 April 2021—Seven of the world’s leading insurers and reinsurers, working together with the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative, are currently in the process of establishing a pioneering Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA). The NZIA is expected to be launched at the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow this November (COP26).

Climate Change, News | 21 April 2021

Banking, Climate Change, Net Zero Banking, News | 21 April 2021

Geneva, Wednesday 21 April. Today, on the eve of President Biden’s Head of State Climate Summit, Mark Carney (the UK…

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, News | 21 April 2021

21 April 2021 – The United Nations-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance today announces a tripling in membership from its launch…

Climate Change, Publications | 20 April 2021

UNEP FI has partnered with MinterEllison to examine the impact of litigation in adaptation finance and address some of the challenges in scaling up adaptation capital identified in the GCA Adaptation Finance Paper published in 2019. This collaboration led to the publication of “The Forgotten Climate-related Financial Risk: Liability Impacts on Adaptation and Adaptation Finance“ in April 2021.