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Common minimum standards for incorporating climate change risks into in-house credit assessment systems in the Eurosystem

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  • Körding, Julia
  • Resch, Florian

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In-house credit assessment systems (ICASs) of euro area national central banks are an important source of credit risk assessments for credit claims from non-financial corporates. These credit claims can be pledged as collateral in monetary policy operations. Climate change and the transition to a greener economy can affect the growth, financial performance, market position and business model of a company, and hence its creditworthiness. Therefore, as part of the ECB’s action plan for including climate change considerations in monetary policy implementation, the Governing Council has agreed a set of common minimum standards on incorporating these risks in ICAS rating processes. Assessments of climate change risks will mainly focus on the companies most affected and those which pose the highest risk to the Eurosystem. The analysis will be performed at firm level whenever sufficient data is available, using state-of-the-art methods and metrics. All ICASs will comply with the common minimum standards from end-2024 onwards. JEL Classification: G32, Q54

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  • Körding, Julia & Resch, Florian, 2022. "Common minimum standards for incorporating climate change risks into in-house credit assessment systems in the Eurosystem," Economic Bulletin Boxes, European Central Bank, vol. 6.
  • Handle: RePEc:ecb:ecbbox:2022:0006:6
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    Keywords

    climate change; ICAS; risk management;
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    JEL classification:

    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

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