The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) is excited to announce a vacancy for a Nature and Finance Junior Consultant for 2025. This role is vital in advancing our mission to integrate sustainability into the financial sector and promote investments that support environmental conservation.
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As a Junior Consultant, you will assist in developing strategies and tools that align financial practices with nature-based solutions. Your work will involve conducting research, analyzing data, and collaborating with stakeholders to foster a deeper understanding of the financial implications of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
If you are passionate about sustainability and finance, and eager to make a positive impact on the environment, we invite you to apply. Join UNEP FI in our efforts to create a sustainable financial system that benefits both people and the planet!
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.
The overall objective of the UNEP’s Economy Division is to encourage decision makers in government, local authorities, and industry to develop and adopt policies, strategies and practices and technologies that promote sustainable patterns of consumption and production, make efficient use of natural resources, ensure safe management of chemicals and contribute to making trade and environment policies mutually supportive.
It promotes the development, use and transfer of policies, technologies, economic instruments, managerial practices and other tools that assist in environmentally sound decision making and the building of corresponding activities. The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) is the strategic partnership between the United Nations and over 500 banks, insurers and investors.
For over 32 years UNEP FI has been shaping and driving the international sustainable finance agenda, setting global standards and growing a global network of leading financial institutions. Through its work-streams and regional activities, peer learning, methodology development, training and research, UNEP FI promotes sustainable finance and helps the financial industry align with and contribute to the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals.
UNEP FI is looking for a Junior Consultant to support the implementation of a project to advance nature finance and market-based revenues, contributing to the realization of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, specifically supporting Target 19. This target focuses on leveraging private finance, implementing strategies for raising new and additional resources, and encouraging the finance industry to invest in biodiversity.
This role involves supporting knowledge activities such as the development of knowledge products, coordinating communities, webinars, and events, representing UNEP FI nature team in consortium and secretariat meetings, writing notes, tracking progress, and working in tandem with the project coordinator, subject matter experts, key stakeholders, and Signatory banks.
Specific tasks and responsibilities:
The consultant will be:
• Coordinate a series of webinars, side events and workshops to facilitate the exchange of lessons learned on innovative nature finance trends, instruments and revenues models to attract private finance, leveraging a community of practice.
• Support desk research, writing, and release of knowledge products (guides, cases, and articles) focusing on different nature-based mechanisms and revenue models.
• Contribute to develop private nature finance and revenues typology, collect data for analysis and tracking.
• Support efforts to incorporate private finance into National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans.
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