The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has started a new iteration of its Sector Mappings, working with peer sustainability initiatives and practitioners to update the resource based on user feedback and improve its usability across different audiences and use cases. The work is positioned to support impact management and sustainability disclosures by strengthening a common understanding of where positive and negative sustainability impacts are likely to arise across sectors. The review covers the mappings of sector and activity impacts across the three pillars of sustainable development, using the impact areas in the UNEP FI Impact Radar. Proposed adjustments include changes to impact areas and topics to increase interoperability and reflect learnings from an Impact Management Platform research and development paper on sustainability topics, updating sector classification from International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) Rev.4 to ISIC Rev.5, expanding transparency on how sector-impact associations are determined, adding explicit value chain considerations, and incorporating information related to risks and opportunities. UNEP FI set a tentative target of Q1 2026 to release the updated mappings. Users are being asked to provide input via a survey, with a further round of consultations planned for Q4 2025 with survey respondents, alongside engagement with Impact Management Platform partner initiatives and topical experts.

Original source Back to tracker