UNEP FI, the Sustainability Academy of the eco. business Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), the Spanish Centre for Sustainable and Responsible Finance (FINRESP), with the collaboration of the Chilean Public-Private Roundtable on Green Finance, the Paraguayan Roundtable on Sustainable Finance (MFS), the Ecuadorian Sustainable Finance Initiative, the Bolivian Roundtable on Sustainable Finance (MFS), the Sustainable Finance Working Group of Panama, the Mesa de Chile, the Laboratório de Inovação Financeira (Brazil), the Laboratorio de Innovación Financiera (Mexico), Spainsif, Deloitte and 2dii, and with ComunicarSe, Diario Sustentable, País Circular, Diario Responsable and Corresponsables as Media Partners, organised in November a Webinar Series on “UNEP FI’s Financial Partnerships in the Race to Zero Net Emissions”.

The first webinar, which took place on 16 November 2021, dealt with The Net Zero Banking Alliance. Analysing its characteristics in the Race to Net Zero, the commitments made to combat Climate Change and the main initiatives for the achievement of those commitments.

The Net-Zero Banking Alliance is comprised of 43 banks from 23 countries (with assets of US$ 28.5 trillion) that are committed to aligning the operational and attributable emissions of their portfolios with pathways to net zero by 2050 or sooner, including setting interim targets by 2030 using robust, science-based guidelines.