Chris Hall

APRIL 23, 2024

The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative’s (UNEP FI) has opened a new risk centre centralising its resources on climate and nature risks, aiming to help members better identify and manage the ones that are financially material. In addition, a knowledge hub will share resources on assessing risks. “By

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 26, 2022

For example, trees are the Earth’s carbon storehouse but the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) estimates that 10 million hectares of forests are lost each year. Each step in a product’s life cycle has environmental consequences and a carbon footprint. For every kilogram of paper, 3.5 kilograms of carbon dioxide are produced.

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EMG CSR

MAY 17, 2024

EMG recently conducted a thought leadership interview with Mr Juan Bello, Director and Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Please tell us about UNEP’s work in South America. UNEP was established 50 years ago and operates globally.

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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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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Nature-related assessment and disclosure frameworks and standards pay insufficient attention to oceans, Romie Goedicke, Co-head of Nature at United Nations Environment Programme – Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has said, following the release of a comparative study. SBTN is expected to release its method for oceans this year,” she said.

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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

The conclusions reached by UNEP and the University of Oxford match those of an ongoing series of economic reports by Vivid Economics and Finance for Biodiversity, which has been tracking the "greenness" of different countries' recovery packages since the outbreak of the pandemic. Of the $14.6

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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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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 18, 2022

C above pre-industrial levels, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Second, wind down production of existing fossil fuel stockpiles at the needed 5% annually, as per UNEP. Not only are we failing to wind down fossil fuel production and use; we are adding to the problem.

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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

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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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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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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Environmental Finance

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation (FfB) are developing a framework which will look to "operationalise" nature positive concept and standardise definitions and investment approaches.

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Environmental Finance

MARCH 12, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) and technology are "rapidly reshaping the nature finance landscape", according to a recent UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) article, which also highlighted the growing importance of insurance and public finance for de-risking the sector.

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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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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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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

More consensus is needed on nature finance terminology to better understand capital flows, the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has said.

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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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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

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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

” The latest Food Waste Index Report (2024) , compiled by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and co-authored by WRAP, found that the world wastes over a billion tonnes of food – one fifth of all food available to consumers at the retail, food service and household level annually.

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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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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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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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James Militzer

JANUARY 8, 2025

The Gender Aspect of the Transition to E-Mobility A recent report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on e-mobility in Kenya focused on the gender aspect of a just transition to e-mobility.

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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 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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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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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 30, 2021

Read the full story at Sustainable Brands.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

For others who also want to take an integrated approach to food sector assessment, concrete and innovative tools, such as the TEEBAgriFood Framework developed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), with support from the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, can provide businesses with an immediate way to assess how their food systems (..)

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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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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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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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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Thats why we partnered with Tandem Global (formerly Wildlife Habitat Council) to complete nature and biodiversity assessments in 2024, including using the Taskforce on Nature Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) guidance to identify and understand the nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and (..)

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ESG Today

MAY 30, 2023

In a statement following the departures, UNEP said that announcements were made “in light of the recent discussions within the United States,” and that the insurers that exited the NZIA were “particularly those with significant US business and exposure.”

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