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Climate-related risks to financial stability

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  • Alogoskoufis, Spyros
  • Carbone, Sante
  • Coussens, Wouter
  • Fahr, Stephan
  • Giuzio, Margherita
  • Kuik, Friderike
  • Parisi, Laura
  • Salakhova, Dilyara
  • Spaggiari, Martina

Abstract

The ECB has been intensifying its quantitative work aimed at capturing climate-related risks to financial stability. This includes estimating financial system exposures to climate-related risks, upgrading banking sector scenario analysis and monitoring developments in the financing of the green transition. Considerable progress has been made on capturing banking sector exposures to firms that are subject to physical risks from climate change. While data and methodological challenges are still a focus of ongoing debates, our analyses suggest (i) somewhat concentrated bank exposures to physical and transition risk drivers, (ii) a prevalence of exposures amongst more vulnerable banks and in specific regions, (iii) risk-mitigating potential for interactions across financial institutions, and (iv) strong inter-temporal dependency conditioning the interaction of transition and physical risks. At the same time, investor interest in “green finance” continues to grow – but so-called greenwashing concerns need to be addressed to foster efficient market mechanisms. Both the assessment of risks and the allocation of finance to support the orderly transition to a more sustainable economy can benefit from enhanced disclosures, including of firms’ forward-looking emission targets, better data and strengthened risk assessment methodologies, among other things. JEL Classification: G10, G18, G20, Q54

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  • Alogoskoufis, Spyros & Carbone, Sante & Coussens, Wouter & Fahr, Stephan & Giuzio, Margherita & Kuik, Friderike & Parisi, Laura & Salakhova, Dilyara & Spaggiari, Martina, 2021. "Climate-related risks to financial stability," Financial Stability Review, European Central Bank, vol. 1.
    • Handle: RePEc:ecb:fsrart:2021:0001:2
    Note: 1056838
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    1. Chris Kenyon & Mourad Berrahoui & Andrea Macrina, 2021. "Sustainability Manifesto for Financial Products: Carbon Equivalence Principle," Papers 2112.04181, arXiv.org.
    2. Gergely Manasses & Eva Paulik & Attila Tapaszti, 2022. "Green Bond Impact Report as an Essential Next Step in Market Development," Financial and Economic Review, Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Central Bank of Hungary), vol. 21(4), pages 180-204.
    3. Donato Masciandaro & Romano Vincenzo Tarsia, 2021. "Society, Politicians, Climate Change and Central Banks: An Index of Green Activism," BAFFI CAREFIN Working Papers 21167, BAFFI CAREFIN, Centre for Applied Research on International Markets Banking Finance and Regulation, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy.
    4. Pal Peter Kolozsi & Sandor Ladanyi & Andras Straubinger, 2022. "Measuring the Climate Risk Exposure of Financial Assets - Methodological Challenges and Central Bank Practices," Financial and Economic Review, Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Central Bank of Hungary), vol. 21(1), pages 113-140.
    5. Chen, Ning & Li, Shaofang & Lu, Shuai, 2023. "The extreme risk connectedness of the global financial system: G7 and BRICS evidence," Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Elsevier, vol. 69(C).
    6. Dafermos, Yannis & Nikolaidi, Maria, 2022. "Greening capital requirements," Greenwich Papers in Political Economy 37779, University of Greenwich, Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre.
    7. Donato Masciandaro & Romano Vincenzo Tarsia, 2021. "Society, Politicians, Climate Change and Central Banks: An Index of Green Activism," BAFFI CAREFIN Working Papers 21167, BAFFI CAREFIN, Centre for Applied Research on International Markets Banking Finance and Regulation, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy.

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    Keywords

    banks; Climate change; climate policies; financial stability; green finance; non-banks;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • G18 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • G20 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - General
    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
    • Q51 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Valuation of Environmental Effects
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

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