UNEP FI Online Tools for Finance Sector Sustainability

To fulfill its mission, the United Nations Environment Programme - Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) provides products and services, practical guidance and tools directly aimed at facilitating the implementation of sustainable finance policies and practices in the global financial sector.

The UNEP FI Impact Analysis Tools have been designed open-source for banks, investors and their corporate clients and investee companies.  The tools are designed to enable practitioners to implement a holistic approach to impact analysis and management.

Transition Check allows corporate lenders and other financial institutions to quantify the impact of transition risk on their customers and corporate lending portfolios across a wide variety of climate scenarios.  Transition Check applies the risk assessment methodology collaboratively developed as part of UNEP FI’s Task-Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) pilot program.

The online ENCORE (Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks and Exposure) tool enables users to visualise how the economy impacts and depends on nature and how environmental change creates risks for businesses and thus financial institutions.  ENCORE can be easily used to start exploring natural capital risks, to understand location-specific risks with maps of natural capital assets and drivers of environmental change.  (Also in Spanish: haga clic aquí.)

The Guide to Banking and Sustainability is a high-level, functional overview of what a sustainable bank looks like from inside and to the outside, the Guide is first and foremost a tool for banking practitioners themselves. It is meant as an awareness-raising, integration and outreach tool

The Drought Stress Testing Tool enables banks to assess if clients are at risk from drought and how drought can affect a sector or region to build more resilient financial institutions and shift finance to less vulnerable sectors and regions.  Designed as an online signposting tool, the Human Rights Tool provides information to lenders on human rights risks.

Source: “Tools.” United Nations Environment Finance Initiative, www.unepfi.org/tools/. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.