UNEP FI’s Risk Centre summarises a resource series that helps financial institution risk professionals use sustainability disclosures within prudential risk management, covering their availability, reliability and links to financial risk.
The New Frontiers Report for CDR
RMI assesses innovation breakthroughs across 14 carbon dioxide removal approaches, analysing deployment trends, cost drivers and priority breakthrough areas to guide investment and accelerate scalable, affordable removal technologies.
Building more resilient, investable landscapes: what the UNCCD COP17 outcomes mean for financial institutions
UNEP Finance Initiative analyses UNCCD COP17 outcomes, including a US$1.3 billion land restoration package and new platforms, outlining implications for financial institutions financing land degradation and drought resilience.
The State of the World’s Forests 2026 – Restoring forests and landscapes: The way forward for a sustainable future
FAO’s flagship forests report assesses global progress on forest and landscape restoration, finding commitments outpace action, and identifies four pathways, people, land, finance, and policy, to scale impact.
Ocean Investment Protocol: A multi-stakeholder plan to enable funding for the Sustainable Ocean Economy
UN Global Compact, UNEP FI and WWF present a framework for financial institutions, policymakers and industry leaders to scale the transition to a sustainable ocean economy, updated to reflect developments in ocean finance and integration into financial decision-making.
Asking Better Questions on Nature: For Bank Chief Risk Officers and Risk Committees
TNFD and UNEP FI give bank chief risk officers ten questions for assessing nature-related risk across portfolios, flagging nature bonds and biodiversity credits as emerging business lines and pollinator decline’s $577 billion exposure to crop production.
Family forests provide millions in benefits to businesses and communities
The American Forest Foundation and Sorenson Impact Institute quantify the wider benefits of the Family Forest Carbon Program, including $6.4 million a year in air-quality healthcare savings across twenty states and $2.3 million in annual regional economic output.
Investor expectations of companies on deforestation (updated)
IIGCC updates five core expectations for companies on deforestation – a public commitment, risk assessment across operations, sourcing and financing, supply-chain transformation, landscape action and annual disclosure – aligned to TNFD and IFRS S2.
Natural capital: the unpriced carbon
Wood Mackenzie finds natural carbon sinks absorbed about 18 GtCO2 in 2025, roughly 40 per cent of human emissions, yet are unvalued in most climate models, while engineered removal delivered only 0.08 GtCO2 and sink capacity is weakening.
Mobilising Public and Private Finance for Biodiversity: Good Practices in Unlocking Capital for Nature
OECD maps biodiversity finance instruments and mechanisms, assessing how public and private approaches can complement each other and recommending policy conditions that direct capital towards measurable nature outcomes.