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 zero-interest lending programme launched by the Bank of Japan aims to boost low-carbon projects such as geothermal and solar energy. But it faces disclosure and mandatory requirement challenges, says Sayuri Shirai of Keio University.
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.
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.
The quest for ever-more data must not delay action to address climate risks, says economist Danae Kyriakopoulou, because the risk of doing too little far outweighs the risk of doing too much.
The ECB has published a substantive review and analysis of climate change and monetary policy in the euro area, identifying potential problems with monetary policy transmission as a result of climate-related impacts.
Banque de France on biodiversity risks, the ECB’s Schnabel on climate change and monetary policy, a new report on South Korean oil & gas financing, a climate assessment of Australian banks, the financialisation of food and more in this week’s …
The Bank of Japan announced targeted refinancing operations to support the transition to a carbon neutral economy, the first major central bank to do so.
Climate risk regulation in Israel, illegal gold mining in Malawi, new BOJ climate lending facility, Schnabel calls for market efficiency over neutrality, Eurozone banks fail ECB climate risk expectations, and more.
The concept of market neutrality may conflict with the primary and secondary objectives of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) mandate, claimed the Dutch central bank president in a keynote speech about green monetary policy today.
Weekly roundup on calls for U.S. climate risk regulation, ECB market neutrality debate continues and The Fed asks lenders for details of climate risk.
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