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To fast-track financial institutions' action on decarbonising the global economy, UNEP FI has convened coalitions of actors from across the financial sector – investors, banks, and re/insurers. 2019 saw the launch of the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance in partnership with the PRI; in April 2021 UNEP FI launched the Net-Zero Banking ...
The office serves UNEP's governing body, the United Nations Environment Assembly, and its subsidiary organ, the Committee of Permanent Representatives, and manages their meetings. It helps strengthen the visibility, authority and impact of the Assembly as an authoritative voice on the environment. Law Division: helps to develop environmental law.
Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is a series of reports that review the state and direction of the global environment, issued periodically by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The GEO project is a response to the environmental reporting requirements of UN Agenda 21 and to a UNEP Governing Council decision of May 1995.
Environmental finance is a field within finance that employs market-based environmental policy instruments to improve the ecological impact of investment strategies. [1] The primary objective of environmental finance is to regress the negative impacts of climate change through pricing and trading schemes. [2]
The UN Global Compact is a founding member of the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative along with the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI), and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
This follows the publication in September 2015 of Fiduciary Duty in the 21st Century by the PRI, UNEP FI, UNEP Inquiry and UN Global Compact. [27] The report concluded that "Failing to consider all long-term investment value drivers, including ESG issues, is a failure of fiduciary duty".
The Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative promoting corporate investment in sustainable development.It is a project of the United Nations (UN) co-organized by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (), the United Nations Global Compact, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI) and the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).
Another estimate says that financial flows for climate mitigation and adaptation are going to be over $800 billion per year. These financial requirements are predicted to exceed $4 trillion per year by 2030. [153] [154] Globally, limiting warming to 2 °C may result in higher economic benefits than economic costs.