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Hungary's parliament building in Budapest

News | August 27, 2026

Adaptation capacity and short maturity protect Hungary’s foreign exchange reserves

The central bank’s climate disclosures show that although countries’ trajectories are unaligned with the Paris Climate Agreement, its reserves are largely protected against the financial impacts of climate change.

News | June 4, 2026

A wave of green bonds is reshaping climate finance in Africa

Nigeria is at the head of a continent-wide push to lure investors to the climate funding gap through sovereign green bonds.

The Arc de Triomphe in Paris at night, illuminated by floodlights.

News | September 27, 2024

Risers and fallers: the biggest moves in the 2024 Green Central Banking Scorecard, explained

Several countries saw double-digit jumps in their point scores, while others including the US, UK and South Korea have fallen behind.

A workman in hard hat and orange reflective vest is guiding an open-top pipe, down which wet concrete is pouring.

News | August 16, 2024

Europe’s interest rates increasingly reflect climate risks

Research from both the ECB and Dutch central bank shows significantly higher interest rates for climate laggards.

News | June 28, 2024

ECB sets climate targets for its corporate bonds

The European Central Bank continued to decarbonise its portfolios and expanded the scope of assets reviewed to cover 99.7% of its holdings. …

Opinion

News | July 26, 2023

ECB’s broken promise on bond decarbonisation creates climate gap

The ECB’s failure to remove bonds issued by carbon-intensive companies from its portfolio goes against its climate plans, says finance campaigner Kuba Gogolewski from Greenpeace.

News | September 12, 2022

Civil society issues criteria for greening ECB corporate portfolio

As the ECB moves to decarbonise its corporate bond portfolio, 12 leading research and advocacy groups have issued a list of four key criteria they say are crucial to the robustness and credibility of the exercise.

A man walks past a row of banners, reading 'Decarbonize the national bank!'

News | May 3, 2022

Climate protest at SNB annual meeting

Climate activists protested outside the Swiss National Bank’s AGM last week, highlighting the central bank’s substantial funding of fossil fuels and calling for climate-related disclosures and transition plans.

A man, Pierre Wunsch, standing at a lectern

News | April 21, 2022

ECB’s Wunsch defends controversial market neutrality concept

ECB governing council member Pierre Wunsch has defended the controversial concept of market neutrality, despite evidence of substantial carbon bias in ECB corporate bond purchases.

News | December 22, 2021

2021: plenty of climate talks, but little practical progress

As the climate and ecological crises continue to accelerate, central banks have made slow progress in addressing their role as calls grow to stop the funding of the destruction of the natural world.

News | October 29, 2021

Scorecard update: G20 central banks failing on climate

A major study by Positive Money and Green Central Banking reveals that G20 central bankers and financial supervisors remain stuck in data-gathering exercises and are failing to meaningfully respond to the climate and ecological crisis.