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S&P, UNEP Launch Methodology to Measure Companies’ Nature & Biodiversity Risk

ESG Today

S&P Global Sustainable1 and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today the launch of Nature Risk Profile, a new methodology aimed at enabling companies and investors to assess and analyze companies’ nature-related risks, including impacts and dependencies on biodiversity.

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“Room for Improvement” in Climate Risk Tools – UNEP FI

Chris Hall

Climate risk tools available to financial institutions suffer from shortcomings in data inputs and scope, despite recent consolidation and technology innovation, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).

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UNEP Report Calls for a ‘Step Change’ in Adaptation Investments

Impakter

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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UNEP launching new sustainable land use finance impact directory

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story from UNEP. The Land Use Finance Impact Hub and its Positive Impact Indicators Directory – launched today by … Continue reading UNEP launching new sustainable land use finance impact directory.

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UNEP FI: Finance can already use draft TNFD, despite data gaps

Environmental Finance

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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Knight Bites: 6 ways to win our battle with plastic pollution by 2040

Corporate Knights

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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New Investment Models Needed for Net Zero Goals Warns UNEP FI’s Carlin

Chris Hall

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.