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T1 Environmental Data Dialogues in Mexico: How Data Provision can Help Understand Better Environmental Sources of Financial Risk And Integrate them More Effectively into Mainstream Financial Decision-Making
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
K1 green economy
K1 financial management
K1 environmental economics
K1 risk management
K1 environmental financing
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/34494
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/34494
NO Managing risk is central to the effective functioning and stability of financial institutions. All capital is deployed based on expected ‘risk-adjusted’ returns. If environmental risk is being underestimated, capital can be over-allocated to higher risk activities. Therefore, improving environmental risk can support more efficient allocation of capital for long-term stability. Natural catastrophes can affect the efficiency and effectiveness of markets. Financial institutions are exposed to environmental risks in a diverse set of ways (e.g. physical, transition, credit risk, underwriting risk, business risk, operational risk, legal risk, liquidity). These environmental risks are likely to alter the supply and demand dynamic of many industries, leading not only to physical damages in assets in credit, investment or underwriting portfolios but also other financial downsides along the value chain.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 17, 2026