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Climate Change, Events | 06 December 2018

Climate negotiators from around the globe are meeting in Katowice, Poland at COP24 to keep working towards implementing the Paris Climate Agreement. UNEP FI will be taking part in the  following events:

News, SDGs and Impact | 26 November 2018

We were delighted to launch Rethinking Impact to Finance the SDGs: a position paper and call to action during a plenary session on the occasion of UNEP FI’s Global Roundtable in Paris, November 26th, 2018.  Click here for a video of the session or scroll down for a summary.

Blue Finance, Nature, NCFA, News | 26 November 2018

The world’s first comprehensive tool linking environmental change with its consequences for the economy has been launched by the Natural…

News, SDGs and Impact | 26 November 2018

Paris, 26 November 2018 – How to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals? UNEP FI’s Positive Impact Initiative proposes a new…

Publications, SDGs and Impact | 26 November 2018

In Rethinking Impact to Finance the SDGs, we explore new ways to significantly decrease the cost of achieving the SDGs…

Publications, SDGs and Impact | 26 November 2018

The Impact Radar aims to offer a credible and comprehensive set of impact categories that can be integrated with the…

Publications, SDGs and Impact | 26 November 2018

This Model Framework covers Financial Products for Corporates with unspecified use of funds, i.e. where the funds raised or guarantees…

Publications, SDGs and Impact | 26 November 2018

This Positive Impact Initiative Model Framework covers Financial Products where the funds raised or guarantees issued are used for a…

Nature, News | 25 November 2018

Financial institutions around the world are waking up to the fact that businesses they invest in or lend to are…

Climate Change, Insurance, News, TCFD | 13 November 2018

UN Environment’s Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) announced today a partnership with 16 of the world’s largest insurers—representing around 10% of world premium and USD 5 trillion in assets under management—to develop a new generation of risk assessment tools designed to enable the insurance industry to better understand the impacts of climate change on their business. This understanding is vital for an industry whose core business is to manage risk.