Integrating climate and nature action | Webinar
Presented by UNEP FI, PRI, Finance@Biodiversity Community, Finance for Biodiversity Pledge
Integrating climate and nature action: Unlocking the biodiversity-climate nexus
13 December 2023, 14:00-15:00 CET
Aimed at banks, institutional investors and insurers at the beginning of their journey in addressing nature loss, this webinar will introduce how nature is connected to climate change and finance, as well as key concepts and initiatives.
About the organisers
UNEP Finance Initiative
For more than 30 years the initiative has been connecting the UN with financial institutions from around the world to shape the sustainable finance agenda. We’ve established the world’s foremost sustainability frameworks that help the finance industry address global environmental, social and governance (ESG) challenges.
Convened by a Geneva, Switzerland-based secretariat, more than 500 banks and insurers with assets exceeding US$170 trillion work together to facilitate the implementation of UNEP FI’s Principles for Responsible Banking and Principles for Sustainable Insurance, as well as three UN-convened net-zero alliances. Financial institutions work with UNEP FI on a voluntary basis and we help them to apply the industry frameworks and develop practical guidance and tools to position their businesses for the transition to a sustainable and inclusive economy.
PRI – Principles for Responsible Investment
The PRI is the world’s leading proponent of responsible investment. It works:
- to understand the investment implications of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors;
- to support its international network of investor signatories in incorporating these factors into their investment and ownership decisions.
The PRI acts in the long-term interests:
- of its signatories;
- of the financial markets and economies in which they operate;
- and ultimately of the environment and society as a whole.
>> Learn more about PRI's activities for biodiversity
EU Business & Biodiversity Platform
The European Business & Biodiversity Platform is set up by the European Commission to work with and help business measure and integrate the value of biodiversity into business decision making.
The Platform's main aim is to mobilise a critical mass of business actors in Europe and beyond to deliver the EU Biodiversity Strategy targets by 2030 and secure "a world of living in harmony with nature" by 2050, as called upon by the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
Finance for Biodiversity Foundation
The aim of the Foundation is to support a call to action and collaboration between financial institutions via working groups, as a connecting body for contributing signatories and partner organizations.
Our mission: “Supporting a call to action and collaboration among financial institutions to reverse nature loss this decade”
The number of members is growing and currently stands at 73 financial institutions. Foundation members can join the four working groups that are currently active: Engagement with companies, Impact assessment (incl. biodiversity measurement and data), Public policy advocacy, and Target Setting.
>> Learn more about the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation
>> Learn more about the Finance for Biodiversity Pledge
Top photo by Dash Huang on Flickr: Fawn-footed melomys (Melomys cervinipes), an Australian mammal. Not to be confused with its former relative, the Bramble Cay melomys (Melomys rubicola), which was recorded as the first mammal to go extinct due to anthropogenic climate change.
Many Melomys species are endemic. While some seem to be doing alright, like the fawn-footed melomys in the photograph, others are considered endangered by IUCN: they are losing their habitat to deforestation. Worryingly, we still don't have enough data to assess how some Melomys species are doing.