Climate
Climate finance priorities are centered on significantly increasing funding commitments, enhancing equitable distribution, and integrating robust accountability mechanisms to effectively address the escalating challenges of climate change.
Nature
The focus for nature finance will be on integrating nature-positive strategies, aligning with global frameworks, mobilising biodiversity finance, developing innovative financial instruments, undergoing systemic transitions, reforming global financial rules, and emphasising critical sectors like water and agriculture.
Social
The Social dimension will place greater scrutiny on company’s relationships with its employees, customers, suppliers, and the broader community, focusing on aspects such as human rights, labor practices, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and community impact.
Knowledge Partners
Carbon Tracker is an independent financial think tank that carries out in-depth analysis on the impact of the energy transition on capital markets and the potential investment in high-cost, carbon-intensive fossil fuels.
Planet Tracker is an award-winning non-profit think tank that engages directly with the financial system and corporate management to drive transformation of global financial activities, achieve real world change in our means of production and align investment with a resilient, just, net-zero and nature
Content Partners
Upcoming Events
EF ASEAN 2026 will feature a presentation from Bernadette Victorio, Asia-Pacific Engagement Lead at the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD).
The EF ASEAN 2026 summit will spotlight social and inequality-related risks, that are becoming material financial risks for banks across Southeast Asia, yet many institutions are still at an early stage of engagement. This panel, with ING, BDO Philippines, and IndustriALL Global Union, will examine how social risks translate into real credit, operational and reputational impacts, and what practical steps banks can take to move from awareness to action.
Content
Join Omar Shaikh for a discussion with Eva Cairns from Scottish Widows and Sefian Kasem from HSBC Asset Management. They discussed how AI, stronger governance, and systems-level stewardship are reshaping opportunities, and why fixed income is leading the next wave of sustainable investing.
In this guest blog, social impact investor Lauran Halpin reflects on the ESG backlash and argues that a renewed, systems-level focus on social risks and opportunities is critical to delivering credible returns and enabling a truly just transition.
Join Simon Rawson, Executive Director, TISFD, Amanda Zillig, Global Human Rights Lead, ING, and Lauran Halpin, Social Impact Investor for the Series’ first episode on making the business case for social risks.
GEFI Global Steering Group member Amy Clarke was joined by Adrian Rimmer, Director, Sustainable Finance & Investment, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Emily Martin, Co-head of Voluntary Carbon and Nature Markets at Lloyds Corporate & Institutional, to discuss how to scale carbon markets.
Explore Lloyds Corporate & Institutional’s insights on the UK’s carbon and nature markets, highlighting the urgent need for action from both markets and governments.
As countries submit new and updated NDCs, this session explored how financial institutions can meaningfully support their delivery. The first EFRT of the year featured presentations from David Pitt-Watson, who co-chaired UNEP FI during COP21, and Arianna Griffa, Senior Policy Manager at IIGCC.
GEFI Insights Series Knowledge Partner Richard Folland, Head of Policy and Engagement, Carbon Tracker Initiative delivreed an insightful COP presentation looking at the implications for Southeast Asia and the importance of multilateralism.
Learn what 2025 has in store for climate and nature from Knowledge Partner’s Richard Folland, Carbon Tracker Initiative and Arianna Manili, Planet Tracker.
In this first-of-its-kind survey of 350 investment and risk professionals globally, MSCI Sustainability Institute explores the market’s expectations to climate scenarios.
7 months after our first episode that kick-started the Series, Amy Clarke, Tribe Impact Capital, will return to moderate a climate/nature nexus review with Carbon Tracker Initiative’s Richard Folland and Planet Tracker’s Arianna Manili.
This white paper explores the relationship between nature conservation and financial strategy in the Middle East, particularly for institutions aiming to integrate economic resilience, regulatory compliance and AI-enhanced solutions.
This report examines the profound connection between Islamic finance and renewable energy, providing a comprehensive analysis of how Shariah-compliant financial instruments can drive the global transition to sustainable energy.
The “Green and Sustainability Sukuk Update 2024” report is a collaboration between London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), the Islamic Finance Council UK (UKIFC) and the Global Ethical Finance Initiative (GEFI) as one of the outcomes of the HLWG in its third and final year.
Hear the reflections of our climate and nature finance experts following their participation in COP16 (Biodiversity) and COP29 (Climate Change). Our panellists delve into critical insights on nature and climate and unpack the implications of these summits on finance and the private sector.
Hear the latest thoughts of our climate and nature finance experts ahead of their participation in COP16 (Biodiversity) taking place in Columbia between October 21 to November 1, 2024 and COP29 (Climate Change), which will be hosted in Azerbaijan between November 11 and 22, 2024.
Planet Tracker has prepared an overview of key issues for financial institutions, highlighting the complexity of developing nature transition plans, the need for clear governmental responsibility for natural resources, and the challenges involved in processing and analyzing nature-related data.
Martin Currie highlight the need for a fair transition to net-zero that considers social impacts on jobs and communities. The article calls for inclusive policies and investments to protect vulnerable populations while advancing environmental goals.
Following her presentation in our Pre-COP webinar, Planet Tracker’s Arianna Manili outlines key considerations for financial institutions ahead of COP16. Stressing the importance of aligning financial strategies with biodiversity goals, she urges firms to recognise the risks and opportunities in biodiversity finance as global expectations around environmental responsibility grow.
In this article, Richard Folland (Carbon Tracker Initiative) calls for the private sector to play a crucial role in international climate and nature finance. He highlights the importance of innovative partnerships and financial solutions to address pressing environmental challenges, urging the private sector to actively contribute to sustainable development.
Read Mercer’s blog, authored by Helga Birgden and Sarika Goel that considers how investors can address climate change by integrating green portfolios, focusing on carbon reduction, adaptation, natural capital, and sustainable development, while setting targets and reporting progress.
Read our Beyond Green blog, authored by Series Distribution Partner, Chartered Banker Institute that looks at the profound direct and indirect impacts that biodiversity loss has on businesses across diverse sectors.
Amidst London Climate Action Week that considers cooperation, climate action, net zero, and mobilising society, Amy Clarke was joined by NatWest Group’s Carmen Cheng and Martin Currie’s Lauran Halpin to explore the role of finance in delivering a just transition.
Read our bridging faith and sustainability blog, authored by Oyin Bamgbose (Islamic Finance Council UK) that discusses how Islamic sustainable finance, aligned with faith-based principles and ESG criteria, is gaining momentum post-COP28, presenting significant opportunities to support global sustainability goals and climate action.
Join Amy Clarke, Co-Founder and Chief Impact Officer at Tribe Impact Capital, for an insightful discussion with a panel of experts, to explore the intersectionality of climate and nature finance. They discuss investment strategies, policy integration, and the imperative for systemic change in the financial sector.
Read our climate-nature nexus blog, co-authored by Richard Folland (Carbon Tracker Initiative) and John Willis (Planet Tracker), that looks at COP28/29 and COP15/16.
Watch Nicole Kozlowski (Planet Tracker) introduce Planet Tracker’s Nature Scorecard at our virtual Ethical Finance ASEAN 2024.
Watch Christopher de Vere Walker (Carbon Tracker Initiative) introduce CTI’s Coal Country Profiles and highlight the risks and opportunities associated with the transition at our virtual Ethical Finance ASEAN 2024.
Calls to Action
The Met Office is exploring ways to better support users of climate information and data. This research survey aims to gather insights on the experience and perceptions of climate training and learning.
This survey is optional, with all questions being optional, and will take about 10 to 15 minutes to complete.
UNFCCC have proposed three new PACM methodologies which are open for global consultation until 6 July 2025. Developed through the bottom-up process, they have passed initial checks and are part of Article 6 under the Paris Agreement.
The proposals are open for global stakeholder consultation until 6 July 2025.
The PRB Academy is a unique education and training programme that supports banks worldwide on their journey to align their professional practice, strategies, operations and decision-making with the objectives of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement.
The PRB Academy has been developed by Series Distribution Partner, the Chartered Banker Institute, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
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