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Climate change: what are the risks for the French financial sector?
[Changement climatique : quels risques pour le secteur financier français ?]

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  • Sébastien DIOT
  • Anne-Lise BONTEMPS-CHANEL

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Global warming is generating more frequent and extreme weather events, which will significantly weaken local economic activity and lead to the erosion of asset values. Policies implemented to fight global warming could also destabilise the financial system if the transition to a low-carbon economy were too sudden or too late; again impairing the value of financial assets. That is why supervisors and central banks are urging financial institutions to quickly implement the internal arrangements required to monitor and mitigate the risks. In April 2019, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR – Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority) published a survey of French banks and insurers’ practices in this regard. It was found that, despite certain areas of progress, climate change is still only partially and inconsistently integrated into financial institutions’ risk management processes. Le réchauffement climatique génère des phénomènes météorologiques de grande ampleur et plus fréquents. De tels phénomènes pourraient déstabiliser les tissus économiques locaux et conduire à l’érosion de la valeur des actifs. Les politiques de lutte contre le réchauffement climatique pourraient également fragiliser le système financier si la transition vers une économie bas-carbone était trop soudaine ou trop tardive, dégradant ainsi la valeur des actifs financiers. C’est pourquoi, les superviseurs et les banques centrales appellent les acteurs financiers à mettre en place rapidement les dispositifs internes nécessaires pour assurer le suivi de ce risque et son atténuation. L’Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR) a publié en avril dernier un état des lieux des pratiques des banques et des assureurs français dans ce domaine. Il en ressort que, malgré des progrès certains, le changement climatique est encore intégré de façon partielle et hétérogène dans le processus de gestion des risques des établissements financiers.

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  • Sébastien DIOT & Anne-Lise BONTEMPS-CHANEL, 2019. "Climate change: what are the risks for the French financial sector? [Changement climatique : quels risques pour le secteur financier français ?]," Bulletin de la Banque de France, Banque de France, issue 225.
  • Handle: RePEc:bfr:bullbf:2019:225:08
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    JEL classification:

    • G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
    • Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics

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