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   HIGHLIGHTS
   
   30 YEARS OF UNEP FI
   
   2022 marks 50 years of environmental action through UNEP, 30 years of
   
   REMEMBERING RICHARD HANSEN: OUR HUMBLE, HIGH-FLYER
   
   We lost a dear UNEP FI colleague recently, Richard Hansen, our web
   
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   REMEMBERING RICHARD HANSEN: OUR HUMBLE, HIGH-FLYER
   
   We lost a dear UNEP FI colleague recently, Richard Hansen, our web

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   HIGHLIGHTS
   
   UNEP FI LAUNCHES NEW RESOURCES TO SUPPORT CSRD IMPLEMENTATION BY LEVERAGING
   PRINCIPLES FOR RESPONSIBLE BANKING REQUIREMENTS
   
   UNEP FI has launched an ESRS Interoperability Package which helps banks
   
   RESPONSIBLE BANKING - PRIORITIES AND BLUEPRINT FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
   
   Leading responsible banks are transforming the finance sector through four
   
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   PRINCIPLES FOR SUSTAINABLE INSURANCE
   
   About Launched at the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development,
   
   PRIORITIES AND INITIATIVES
   
   The insurance industry’s core business is to understand, manage and
   
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   NZAOA TARGET-SETTING PROTOCOL FOURTH EDITION
   
   With this release, the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance has published four
   
   TO SERVE NET-ZERO CLIENTS, ASSET MANAGERS NEED A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO
   CLIMATE
   
   Geneva, 6 February - The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance
   
   HIGHLIGHTS
   
   TURNING POINT: HOW POLICYMAKERS CAN SHIFT THE TRILLIONS NEEDED FOR THE
   NET-ZERO TRANSITION
   
   Net-zero can only be achieved through systemic change. It is time to move

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   EXPORT CREDIT AGENCIES SUPPORTING BILLIONS IN GLOBAL TRADE FORM NET-ZERO
   ALLIANCE
   
   Geneva, 4 December 2023 – At COP28 today, eight leading export credit
   
   NEW RISK CENTRE TO HELP UNEP FI MEMBERS ADDRESS SUSTAINABILITY RISKS
   
   The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has unveiled its
   
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   GETTING STARTED
   
   The Challenge The natural world - our forests, soils, land and ocean and
   
   SUSTAINABLE BLUE FINANCE
   
   Welcome to the Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Initiative, a UN-convened
   
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   160 FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS REPRESENTING 15.5 USD TRILLION COMBINED ASSETS
   CALL FOR AN AMBITIOUS INTERNATIONAL TREATY TO END PLASTIC POLLUTION
   
   Geneva, 19 April 2024 – One hundred and sixty financial institutions and
   
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   IMPACT PROTOCOL
   
   Impact management explained, step by step! The Impact Protocol provides a

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THE 2023 CLIMATE RISK LANDSCAPE

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Policy, Pollution & Circular Economy, SDGs and Impact, Social

2023 IN REVIEW: A GROWING MEMBERSHIP CONTINUES AMBITIOUS ACTION ON SUSTAINABLE
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Dec 2024 | Banking, Principles for Responsible Banking, Publications, Social


ADVANCING GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT: TARGET SETTING GUIDANCE FOR
BANKS

Download the guidance here

Women and girls represent half of the world’s population and therefore also half
of its potential. But gender inequality persists everywhere and stagnates social
progress.

Investing in women’s empowerment provides the critical leverage required to
advance gender equality, poverty eradication and inclusive economic growth.

As employer, financier, financial services provider and participant in the
broader economic, political and social ecosystem, banks have tremendous power to
influence gender equality and women’s empowerment.

For this reason, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative
(UNEP FI) launched during its 2024 Global Roundtable, guidance co-authored with
UN Women on Advancing Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Target Setting
Guidance for Banks.

In line with the commitment banks have made by signing the Principles for
Responsible Banking (PRB) – the world’s foremost sustainable banking framework
through which more than 50% of the global banking sector works to build a more
sustainable future – this new work is designed to support the significant role
banks have in closing the gender gap. It provides clear, actionable steps for
banks to prioritise women’s empowerment in the workplace, marketplace and
community.

Through the inclusion of a holistic framework for action, metrics to track
progress, checklists, indicators and case studies, the guidance aims to enable
banks to:

 * Prioritise women’s empowerment as a cornerstone of and pathway to gender
   equality
 * Establish a holistic understanding of the ways banks can advance gender
   equality and women’s empowerment across its value chain
 * Act as advocates for gender equality, accelerating the alignment of financial
   flows with SDG 5, setting new standards within the financial industry

More specifically, the guidance shares how banks – using their workplace
policies and practices, business strategies and portfolios, as well as financial
products and services – can foster healthy and prosperous societies for all.

When banks align financing with gender equality objectives, they create more
inclusive and healthy economies and better position themselves to more resilient
and to tap into new markets, customer segments and previously unmet demand – to
the betterment of people of all genders. Banks that foster a gender-responsive
work environment can also benefit from higher employee retention rates and
reduced costs associated with staff turnover or attrition. Download the guidance
here.

Download Repository Documents here:

 * Checklist for Banks: Gender-responsive Financial Health Strategy
 * Checklist for Banks: Gender Data Management
 * Checklist for Banks: Portfolio Shift – Gender Analysis
 * Checklist – Gender-inclusive Leadership and Workplace Policies and Practices
 * Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment Indicator Database


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ADVANCING GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT: TARGET SETTING GUIDANCE FOR
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PRINCIPLES FOR RESPONSIBLE BANKING IMPLEMENTATION JOURNEY – DEFINING RESPONSIBLE
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RESPONSIBLE BANKING PROGRESS STATEMENT FOR PRB SIGNATORIES

GUIDANCE FOR TRANSPARENCY

SECTOR ACTION GUIDANCE FOR NATURE: GETTING STARTED IN THE AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY
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