Browsing Knowledge Repository by Subject "BANKING"
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Banking and Sustainability Time for Convergence: A Policy Briefing on the Links Between Financial Stability and Environmental Sustainability
(2015)In 2014, the UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL, working with and on behalf of the Banking Environment Initiative – BEI) commissioned a study ... -
Green SMEs and Access to Finance: The Role of Banking Diversity
SMEs arguably play an even more prominent role in the green economy. Nearly a third of SMEs offer green products or services and four in ten SMEs have at least one full time green job -
Mobilizing Sustainable Finance for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: Reviewing Experience and Identifying Options in the G7
(2017)This report takes stock of existing activities in G7 countries, identifies a range of emerging lessons and suggests possible next steps for action by G7 countries. This report focuses on green and sustainable finance – in ... -
Nigerian Sustainable Finance Roadmap
(2018)The report highlights major barriers such as market failures, information asymmetries, lack of awareness and lack of consideration of non-financial or longer-term value, as well as opportunity costs that must be tackled. ... -
#OnlyOneEarth: A Practical Guide to Living Sustainably in Harmony with Nature Developed for World Environment Day 2022
(2022-05)Climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste –evidence that Earth is “code red” is all around us and growing more ominous every day. At the same time, billions of people are short of income, food, ... -
Principles for Responsible Banking - Guidance Document
(2019)The Principles for Responsible Banking and their mechanisms for implementation and accountability are captured in three primary documents: The Principles Signature Document, the Key Steps to be Implemented by Signatories, ... -
Responsible Banking: Building Foundations - The first collective progress report of the UN Principles for Responsible Banking signatories
(2021)The report provides an update of signatories’ progress in implementing the principles. Signatories’ progress is assessed according to their fulfilment of three key steps: 1. Analysis of their current impact on people and ... -
Responsible Banking: Towards Real-world Impact - The second biennial progress report on implementation of the UN Principles for Responsible Banking
The Principles for Responsible Banking (the Principles) serve as a leading global framework for responsible banking, guiding member banks to align their strategies and practices with the SDGs and the Paris Agreement on ... -
Scaling up Green Bond Markets for Sustainable Development: An Executive Briefing for the Public Sector to Stimulate Private Sector Market Development for Green Bonds
(2015)This Briefing offers a range of options for building green bond markets which ultimately will help policymakers, regulators and public financial institutions meet their infrastructure investment needs, capital market ... -
UNEP FI Guide to Banking & Sustainability: Understanding and Implementing Sustainability in your Bank based on the UNEP Statement of Commitment by Financial Institutions on Sustainable Development
(2011)This guide provides a clause-by-clause explanation of the UNEP Statement of Commitment by Financial Institutions on Sustainable Development, seeking both to shed further light on the meaning of individual clauses, and to ...