Climate Change: Managing the Financial Risk and Funding the Transition
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Introduction
Introduction
Foreword
Introduction
Sustainability for critical ecosystems: The future of risk management – more of the same or a new paradigm?
Climate change is a source of financial risk
The climate disclosure landscape in the finance sector
Green boxes? An overview of climate risk tools and analytics
Embedding climate change in financial metrics
Modelling climate physical risks
Climate-related stress-testing: Transition risks
Catastrophe risk modelling and climate change
Evidence-based climate stress testing
Climate risk drives a new paradigm in risk management
Incorporating climate change in asset allocation and portfolio construction
(Car)bon voyage: The road to low-carbon investment portfolios
Climate risk primer for community banks: Concepts and policies during a period of significant change
Next-generation analytics for climate finance
Climate finance post-COP26
Mobilising private funding
Climate change is perhaps the most profound challenge our social, political and economic systems have ever faced. We are at an inflection point in how to deal with it. Key aspects of this challenge increasingly gaining attention are the risks and opportunities faced by the financial industry. On the one hand, climate change poses significant, emerging risks to financial institutions and financial stability. These risks are not well understood, measured or quantified, and financial institutions are trying to incorporate them effectively into their risk management practices. On the other hand, massive amounts of capital will be required to finance climate resilience and transition, creating significant demand for new financial products and services.
This book, comprised of four parts, serves as a practical and accessible reference for an essential understanding of climate-related risks and opportunities in financial institutions. The first part offers a broad context for the need to embrace sustainability in financial risk management, and explains how climate change manifests as a source of economic and financial risk. It lays the foundation for later chapters by describing
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