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World-Leading Insurers and United Nations Launch Pioneering Target-Setting Protocol to Accelerate Transition to Net-Zero Economy Davos, 17 January 2023 –…

Following the adoption of the historic resolution to forge an international legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution by 2024…

In the third and final blog post in our series on Gender, Climate and Finance, we shift our focus to…

In late 2021, 198 countries – signatories to the UNFCCC — agreed that “efforts towards the phasedown of unabated coal…

Today, a historic agreement was reached at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP 15): the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework which aims to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. Taking a similar approach to the Paris Climate Agreement, this framework sets a clear mandate for private financial flows to align with the 2050 Vision of “Living in harmony with Nature”, providing the finance sector with a landmark agreement for biodiversity-related financial-decision making.

Sebastian Bekker, Senior Programme Officer in UNEP-WCMC’s Nature Economy team, looks at how the ENCORE biodiversity module, a tool created…

By Marianne Haahr, Nature-related Finance Lead, Global Canopy Marianne looks at how the ENCORE biodiversity module, a tool created in…

Günther Thallinger has been reelected as Chair of the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance for the next two years.  He…

We are at a unique turning point for nature. COP15 [1] is expected to deliver the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF),…

At the end of November, UNEP FI convened its Leadership Council of CEOs of banks and insurers to explore how sustainable…