Climate change
Basel turns attention to non-climate-related environment risks
Experts warn of over-complicated framework if nature-related risks are added prematurely
Climate risk – Special report 2021
This Risk.net special report contains a collection of articles that consider the impact rising carbon prices will have throughout the economy, discuss the challenges of modelling climate risk exposures and of integrating climate risk into risk management…
Sending the right signals: quantifying and repricing risk
Risk.net convened a panel of three experts from different fields to discuss some of the most pressing and pertinent climate-risk related issues, each offering different insight to the discussion from their respective backgrounds, providing an exchange of…
Demand for ESG structured notes spells hedging pain for banks
As products linked to niche equity indexes grow in popularity, banks grapple with vol risk they pose
Most G-Sibs fail to disclose financed emissions
None of the world’s top 30 banks disclose climate impact of their whole portfolio
In over their heads? How greenwashing overwhelms regulators
Difficult to identify and difficult to prove: asset managers doubt regulators’ ability to crack down
EU’s new carbon-scoring metric bedevils investors
Buy-side risk survey 2021: Evic could have harmful consequences for green investing
The impact of European gas prices on climate goals
As governments increase their focus on climate change following the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26, ZE Power asks whether high gas prices in Europe could derail decarbonisation efforts
Climate transition and bonds: risk or opportunity?
Measuring climate risk on bonds is a nascent discipline. Andy Sparks, fixed income and multi-asset product research at MSCI, looks at how to apply climate analytics to fixed income portfolios
The perfect climate risk metric does not exist
Buy-side risk survey 2021: Even the keenest searches fail to find a reliable system of climate disclosure
Copping out on climate change: buy-side risk survey
Only 9% say front-line staff have climate role today – specialists call for better metrics and link to pay
Climate scenarios: carbon price shock sees asset prices slump
Crowd-sourced scenario analysis suggests very few sectors safe from a post-COP carbon price pop
Banks seek regulatory guidance on climate transition plans
Lack of agreement on how to identify whether borrowers are converging with net zero targets
BlackRock’s own reporting undermines its climate claims
Axa, Allianz and Legal & General have all cut their investments’ emissions, unlike BlackRock
TCFD backs carbon disclosure, but not temperature scores
Influential standard setter decides the implied temperature rise ‘is not ready’ for funds
Applying scenario analysis to climate risk
Matthew Lightwood, director, risk solutions at Conning, discusses the application of stochastic modelling with scenario analysis to quantify climate risk in a portfolio
Climate risk: the writing is on the wall
For the EU financial sector, climate risk is inescapable, but it could be tamed
Weather, or not: is climate risk just part of credit risk?
Practitioners divided on whether climate risk can fit into existing credit risk weights
Default risk set to rise from climate inaction – ECB
‘Hothouse world’ scenario could see average probability of default increase significantly more than under both orderly or belated transition
Study fuels doubt over benefits of climate risk-weights
Research finds both green supporting factor and carbon penalising factor have drawbacks
BlackRock to grant funds power to track climate risks
Aladdin system holding trillions of dollars to show whether funds are burning the Earth or saving it
Amundi, Axa urge boardroom pay cuts for climate laggards
Link remuneration to carbon-emission goals and companies will get serious, say large investors
FSB debates how to fit climate risk into capital rules
Regulators ponder whether climate risk needs new RWAs or recalibration of existing ones
Why new EU rules are fuelling greenwashing and how to stop it
Reporting requirements for ESG funds may not solve the problem – a list of harmful investments might