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Data and methods to evaluate climate-related and environmental risks in Italy

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  • Luciano Lavecchia

    (Bank of Italy)

  • Jacopo Appodia

    (Bank of Italy)

  • Paolo Cantatore

    (Bank of Italy)

  • Rita Cappariello

    (Bank of Italy)

  • Stefano Di Virgilio

    (Bank of Italy)

  • Alberto Felettigh

    (Bank of Italy)

  • Andrea Giustini

    (Bank of Italy)

  • Valeria Guberti

    (Bank of Italy)

  • Danilo Liberati

    (Bank of Italy)

  • Giorgio Meucci

    (Bank of Italy)

  • Stefano Piermattei

    (Bank of Italy)

  • Federico Schimperna

    (Bank of Italy)

  • Katia Specchia

    (IVASS)

Abstract

Monitoring climate-related (and environmental) financial risks requires high quality and highly granular data. However, these are scarcely available, except for little data on a small number of counterparty firms. This paper sheds light on the sustainable data gap in Italy, with a special focus on the climate and environmental components. First, we take stock of the data needs arising from firms’ transition plans, commitments to net zero, and financial analyses, to which the requirements arising from international, European and national regulations, as well as from supervisory demands, were added. Second, we map the existing and available data regarding climate, energy, GHG emissions, climate-related financial risks, as well as existing but inaccessible data. Finally, we highlight any missing data, pointing out the areas that are most affected by the data gap.

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  • Luciano Lavecchia & Jacopo Appodia & Paolo Cantatore & Rita Cappariello & Stefano Di Virgilio & Alberto Felettigh & Andrea Giustini & Valeria Guberti & Danilo Liberati & Giorgio Meucci & Stefano Pierm, 2022. "Data and methods to evaluate climate-related and environmental risks in Italy," Questioni di Economia e Finanza (Occasional Papers) 732, Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area.
    • Handle: RePEc:bdi:opques:qef_732_22
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    • C81 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy

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