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Interview
Aziz Durrani standing in front of a conference centre wall, a sign on which reads 'Asean+3 Task Force Meeting'
News | September 12, 2024

Asia can’t get complacent on climate risks, warns leading advisor

Regulatory policy expert Aziz Durrani speaks to Green Central Banking about how central banks are handling climate-related risks across Asia.
Opinion
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News | May 23, 2024

Using financial logic to price carbon emissions

Calculations of expected climate damages vary widely, but a new model treats carbon dioxide as a risky asset with a negative payoff. Authors Adam Bauer and Gernot Wagner explain how it works.
Road sign submerged in flood water
News | February 5, 2024

Campaigners call on US regulators to address climate risks in Basel III endgame

Campaigners have called on US regulators to better address climate risks in their ‘Basel III endgame’ rewrite of big banks’ capital obligations.
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News | May 7, 2023

Bank of Canada publishes climate-related risks

The Bank of Canada (BoC) has published its first disclosure of climate-related risks, revealing a portfolio vulnerable to climate transition risks.
Fridays for Future activists stand outside the European Parliament, holding a banner which reads 'Vote for the one-for-one rule!'
News | December 7, 2022

Youth activists demand one-for-one capital rule

Fridays For Future campaigners are calling on MEPs to support a one-for-one capital requirement, forcing banks to fund new fossil fuel projects from their own resources.
Roundup
Ravi Menon speaking at a conference lecturn
News | October 25, 2022

NGFS chair calls climate change ‘the mother of all supply-side shocks’

The NGFS chair on climate change supply shocks, the ECB’s Frank Elderson on the biodiversity risks threatening financial markets, an ISSB requirement for scope 3 emissions disclosure and more from this week in green central banking.
Opinion
Trees and car roofs emerge from heavy floodwaters in Yorkshire, UK
News | June 29, 2022

Green prudential regulation: a comparison tool for risk-weighted assessments

How can risk-weighted assessments be designed to include climate and environmental factors? Economists Lorenzo Esposito, Giuseppe Mastromatteo and Andrea Molocchi propose 10 principles for effective green prudential regulation.
A person paddles a makeshift raft along flooded streets in Kalimantan, Indonesia
News | April 14, 2022

IPCC report strengthens case for climate Basel

IPCC warnings of a systemic financial stability risk from climate change strengthens the case for qualitative prudential measures under the existing Basel framework, says a leading thinktank.
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.
View of the Earth from orbit
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.
Arctic climate change
News | September 17, 2021

Weekly roundup: Climate risk weighting and Lagarde on price stability

Finance Watch’s Thierry Philipponnat on climate risk weighting in capital allocations, a new Chair of the Fed’s Financial Stability Climate Committee, Christine Lagarde on price stability, and more from this week in green central banking.

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