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Climate Change, Events, Webinars | 16 March 2021

To explore adaptation finance from a litigation perspective, UNEP FI has collaborated with MinterEllison to examine how litigation may increase or reduce the barriers to adaptation finance identified in the earlier reports. The output of this collaboration, a high-level briefing paper "The Forgotten Climate-related Financial Risk: Liability Impacts on Adaptation and Adaptation Finance", will be launched at this event.

Climate Change, Events, Webinars | 16 March 2021

Join UNEP FI and EIT Climate-KIC for the launch of the 5th and 6th papers of this Thought Leadership Series: “Making Green Bonds Serve the Climate Goals" (Massamba Thioye, UNFCCC) and "Financial Stability in a Planetary Emergency: the role of regulators in a burning world" (James Vaccaro, Director of Re:Pattern, & David Barmes, Economist at Positive Money).

Asset Owner Alliance, News | 12 March 2021

A core focus area of the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance is Financing the Transition. To address this, the Alliance…

Nature, NCFA, News | 11 March 2021

The South African development bank for the agriculture sector is taking action on nature-related risks, as drought contributes to loan defaults in their portfolio. To ensure the long-term success of South Africa’s agriculture sector, Land Bank considers it vital to simultaneously support equitable ownership of land and tackle natural capital risks.

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, News | 11 March 2021

The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance welcomes Germany’s insurance industry association GDV as a supporting partner – the first insurance…

Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, News | 05 March 2021

Japan’s Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company joins the United Nations-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, to become the first member based Asia.…

Blue Finance, Nature, News | 02 March 2021

New practical guidance enables banks, investors and insurers to understand their impact on ocean health and immediately take action to accelerate the transition to a sustainable blue economy. Leveraging best practice based on input from more than 50 pioneering institutions and experts, this guidance sets out pathways to sustainable growth across five key ocean sectors, chosen for their established connection to private finance. It presents a detailed breakdown of which activities to seek out as best practice, which activities to challenge, and which activities to avoid financing completely due to their damaging nature.

Blue Finance, Nature, Publications | 01 March 2021

A practical guide for financial institutions to lead a sustainable ocean recovery This seminal guidance is a market-first practical toolkit…

Africa & Middle East, Climate Change, Events, TCFD, Training | 25 February 2021

For banks in Egypt and Tunisia, join our series of workshops that will provide you with a better understanding of physical and transition risks as well as climate risk methodologies and tools to strengthen your bank’s resilience and help implement the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures.

Banking, Climate Change, News, TCFD | 17 February 2021

Geneva, 17 February 2021 – Transition risk poses a significant near-term threat to the economy. This is one of the…