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Research| January 26, 2023

What are Large Global Banks Doing About Climate Change?

This research report analyses the efforts of major global banks to address their climate-related risks and address climate change.

Written by Federal Reserve
Research| June 22, 2022

Climate-related financial policy index

A composite index to compare the engagement in green financial policymaking at the global level

This comprehensive study examines the climate-related financial policies of 74 countries between 2000 and 2020 to create an index ranking each country across five green policy areas.

Written by Ecological Indicators Journal
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Research| May 9, 2022

Include Mandatory Banking Transition Plans Within Pillar 2

This paper by the Institute for Climate Economics makes the case for climate transition plans to be fully integrated into prudential regulation for banks in the European Union.

Written by Institute for Climate Economics
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Research| May 5, 2022

Central Banking and Climate Action

China Steers Credit to Decarbonise

Although the PBoC operates within China’s unique economic, political, and financial environment, there is considerable scope for its policies to be replicated elsewhere.

Written by Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis
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Research| April 25, 2022

Realising Central Banks’ Climate Ambitions Through Financial Stability Mandates

Effective green central banking governance should be based on a synthesis between monetary and macroprudential policymaking, finds this study of G20 climate-related policies and mandates.

Written by Paola D’Orazio and Lilit Popoyan
Research| April 6, 2022

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.

Written by World Bank
Coal
Research| March 31, 2022

Identifying, Managing and Disclosing Climate-related Financial Risks: Options for the Reserve Bank of India

This groundbreaking joint report quantifies the extent of lending by Indian banks to fossil fuel assets and examines the risks to the Indian financial system.

Written by ODI, auctusESG & Climate Bonds Initiative
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Research| March 31, 2022

Banking on Climate Chaos: Fossil Fuel Finance Report 2022

This report offers comprehensive analysis on fossil fuel banking, showing how funding has increased over the six years since the Paris Agreemen

Written by Rainforest Action Network and others
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Research| March 30, 2022

Central Banking and Supervision in the Biosphere

Biodiversity loss represents a major threat to financial stability, and mitigation requires urgent transformative changes in our socioeconomic and financial systems, finds this paper from NGFS. …

Written by Network for Greening the Financial System
Research| March 28, 2022

Aligning Canadian Finance with Climate Commitments

This white paper from the office of Canadian Senator Rosa Galvez examines the fossil fuel funding of Canadian financial institutions and public authorities and the resulting systemic risks to financial stability. …

Written by Office of Senator Rosa Galvez
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Research| March 3, 2022

Preventing a ‘Climate Minsky Moment’: Environmental Financial Risks and Prudential Exposure Limits

Central banks can avoid a ‘climate Minsky moment’ by placing soft limits on banks’ exposures to transition-sensitive sectors, according to LSE’s Grantham Institute.

Written by LSE Grantham Institute

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