Melanie Mattauch
How Regional Federal Reserve Banks Can Contend with Economic Risk from Climate Change
This study reviews 40 years of ‘Beige Book’ reporting from the 12 regional US Federal Reserve banks, focusing on their response to climate-related events and offering recommendations to address the growing climate threat to US financial and price stability.
Ten Financial Actors Can Accelerate a Transition Away from Fossil Fuels
This study examines the equity ownership of the world’s unburnable fossil fuel reserves, finding that just ten organisations own nearly half of all reserves and have a disproportionate influence over the fossil fuel industry.
Looking Over the Horizon
This paper by the Roosevelt Institute and Public Citizen argues that safety and soundness supervision is a mechanism that can be deployed quickly and flexibly to guard against emerging financial risks posed by climate change. Although both of the organisations …
Assessing Financial Risks from Physical Climate Shocks : A Framework for Scenario Generation
Scenarios developed to assess the financial risks from physical climatic events do not fully capture such shocks, finds this World Bank paper from three distinguished sustainable finance academics.
Green Mortgages, EU Taxonomy and Environment Risk Weighted Assets: A Key Link for the Transition
This original and timely paper introduces an environment risk weighted assets tool that financial regulators could use almost immediately to help banks green their portfolios by lending to households to reduce energy use and emissions.
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