Environmental Finance

MAY 31, 2024

The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has launched technical guidance for banks on managing physical climate risks within their loan portfolios.

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Impakter

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

UNEP Report Calls for a ‘Step Change’ in Adaptation Investments. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has issued its annual Adaptation Gap Report, which provides a science-based assessment of the global progress on adaptation planning, financing, and implementation.

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Environmental Finance

JULY 18, 2024

The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has launched a series of resources designed to help banks and clients implement circularity within their businesses and portfolios.

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Environmental Finance

JANUARY 29, 2024

Further alignment and streamlining of nature reporting is still needed, the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has said, as it predicted that mandatory disclosures are likely on the horizon.

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Environmental Finance

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has launched a database to help match nature projects with private and public funding.

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Environmental Finance

APRIL 19, 2023

Data gaps need not prevent financial institutions from applying the draft recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), UNEP FI has claimed.

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Global Renewable News

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), ReNew.

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John Englart

JANUARY 9, 2023

Ozone recovery is back on track says the latest UNEP assessment report on ozone depletion and recovery.Rogue emissions from China of ozone-depleting chemicals had threatened to delay recovery by a decade. But the emissions were stopped, says the New York Times.“That

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2023

Speaking at ESG Investor’s inaugural Stewardship Summit, UNEP FI’s Head of Climate Risk says transition finance flows to developing economies are too low to meet net zero targets. The post New Investment Models Needed for Net Zero Goals Warns UNEP FI’s Carlin appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Environmental Finance

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A blueprint from UNEP FI guides banks to play a pivotal part in transitioning towards climate-resilient, sustainable economy, writes Eric Usher

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Chris Hall

MARCH 4, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including UNEP FI, ISS ESG, ISSB, Xpansiv and Carbon Trust. The post This Week’s Tech and Tools News: UNEP FI Issues Oceans Toolkit for Investors appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 2, 2023

Ahead of a second round of negotiations on a global plastics treaty in Paris this week, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) laid out an action plan for business and government to end the planet’s enormous pollution problem. Here are six of its system-changing solutions. modern-day “milkmen” for consumer goods).

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 28, 2024

There is a 'massive gap between rhetoric and reality' that must be closed by new climate pledges being drafted under the Paris Agreement, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says.

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Global Renewable News

MARCH 10, 2024

On 7-8 March 2024 at the Buildings and Climate Global Forum, World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) joined the French Government and UNEP-GlobalABC, ministers and high-level representatives in discus.

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John Englart

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This is the fifteenth annual report by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) on the Emissions Gap. The warning is clear in 2024 that not enough is being done to reduce emissions which will result in catastrophic impacts down the line. Key take aways from the report:It is still technically possible to meet the 1.5°C

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Canada isn’t alone in its climate contradiction. The 2023 Production Gap Report , released by UNEP, the Stockholm Environment Institute and other partners, found that 19 leading energy-producing countries are planning to extract twice as much fossil fuel supply in 2030 as the maximum that can be burned to keep the world on a 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

“Investors and companies are increasingly setting climate and nature targets, but once those are in place, they need to be thinking more about how to redirect capital [in line with these goals],” Ivo Mulder , Head of the Climate Finance Unit at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), told ESG Investor. trillion in 2022.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

To meet the increasing investor demand for objective SDG-related data, Bloomberg has integrated the UN Environmental Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Sector Impact Map, developed as part of its suite of resources based on its unique holistic impact methodology, into Bloomberg’s ESG data offerings.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 6, 2023

If countries and companies make policy and market shifts using existing technologies, plastic pollution could reduce by 80% by 2040, according to a recent UNEP report.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

C this century, according to the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) latest Emissions Gap Report 2021: The Heat Is On. It is a now problem,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP. “To per cent off predicted annual greenhouse gas emissions in 2030, compared to the previous round of commitments.

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Chris Hall

JULY 16, 2024

Scientists at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) have now warned in a new report that many more “reservoirs of ancient, mostly uncharacterised microorganisms and viruses” could be lurking under the tundra – which is warming at four times the global average. Some of the identified risks are, unsurprisingly, environmental.

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John Englart

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Inger Andersen is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)Follow progress of INC3 at the

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John Englart

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) released the Global Production Gap Report on 8 November 2023. Governments in aggregate are planning to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Bloomberg said that it is the first data provider to integrate the UNEP FI Sector Impact framework into its data offerings. SDG targets include ending poverty and hunger, improving education, and protecting the environment.

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Environmental Finance

AUGUST 20, 2024

The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has called on G20 countries to de-risk nature investments and support the development of biodiversity credits.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In new guidance addressed to asset managers and owners, NGO ShareAction and the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) made five key recommendations to improve risk management in protected areas. “We

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 19, 2024

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has issued a report forecasting municipal solid waste (MSW) levels to rise globally by two thirds. As have previous UNEP efforts and messages, the report endorses waste reduction techniques as important. Read the full story in Waste Today.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 8, 2024

So much so that the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has recognized the power of video games as a communications tool to spread environmental messages. Every year since 2020, UNEP has held what it calls the Green Game Jam that challenges video game creators to inject a particular environmental theme into their games.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Co-created by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the IOC and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Sports for Nature Framework aims to deliver transformative action for nature across sports, by 2030 and beyond.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, November 28, 2023 /3BL/ - Ahead of COP28, the UNEP-convened Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), The Global Methane Hub (GMH) and Delterra are proud to announce their partnership to reduce methane emissions in the Global South. Learn more at: [link] and connect with us on LinkedIn & Instagram.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation is necessary to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and ensure a safe and livable climate, with recent research by UNEP suggesting action on forests could deliver around 20 percent of the emissions reductions needed over the next decade.

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Environmental Finance

JUNE 11, 2024

The biodiversity and carbon credit markets are "poised for massive expansion", but more needs to be done to connect the two mechanisms and utilise their co-benefits, the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has said.

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Environmental Finance

APRIL 25, 2024

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has discontinued the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA), which suffered an exodus of most of its members in spring 2023 due to antitrust risks.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Data from the UNEP shows that some 60% of food waste happens in peoples’ homes. Food loss and waste wastes 1/4 of fresh water used in agriculture every year. While a significant portion of food is lost along the food supply chain, a lot of food is wasted at the household level. How can we help more people to waste less food?

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Environmental Finance

MAY 22, 2024

Some banks are using a framework designed for the Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) initiative to help meet reporting requirements under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), a UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) webinar heard.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The in-person event, hosted within the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Regional Office for Asia-Pacific, runs from August 30 to September 1, during the Korea Global Adaptation Week (KGAW) 2023, one of the most notable adaptation events of the year, aiming to promote actions and practices to adapt to the negative impacts of climate change. 

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Chris Hall

MARCH 18, 2022

Jessica Smith, Nature Lead at the UNEP FI, says it’s time for biodiversity to take its place alongside climate in investor priorities. UNEP FI is going to play a big role in in the year ahead in the piloting programmes to work out what this will look like.”. Innovative finance.

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