Climate change
Ready or not – a low-carbon economy is coming
Government and business must avert disorderly move away from fossil fuels, says Geneva Association’s Maryam Golnaraghi
Calls to hike climate policy raise risk for oil firms
Increased climate policy will put more oil and gas assets under threat of stranding
The backlash against green weightings
Banks get a lot of flak for not doing enough to mitigate climate risks
Climate risk-weighting: the devil and the deep blue sea
Should capital charges be calibrated to climate risk? European banks test the waters
Climate change spells death of certainty
Global warming threatens to upend everything risk models take for granted
Cat risk: why forecasting climate change is a disaster
Forecasters are poles apart on climate-driven catastrophes; insurers fear worse ahead
Navigating the impact of climate risk on financial stability
As uncertainty abounds on the impact climate change may have on the industry, financial services firms must best equip themselves for potential regulatory and socioeconomic changes to ensure they maximise the opportunities of embracing new best practices…
Stress-testing to improve strategic decision‑making
Banking regulators remain focused on expanding and developing the range of stress-testing regimes across the globe to maintain stability, monitor emerging risks and avoid another financial crisis. Here, a forum of industry leaders discusses the evolution…
Companies delay climate policy action at their peril
Failure to take immediate action on the proposals set out in the Paris Agreement on climate change could cost approximately $1.2 trillion over the next 15 years in policy risk costs. Oliver Marchand, co-founder of Carbon Delta and executive director of…
The greening of Natixis’s balance sheet
Green weighting factor will be used to adjust the credit RWAs of loans
When climate risk starts to bite
Energy firms under increased pressure to assess physical climate risk
ESG investing: It’s not just great to be good
Investing according to environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria can be done in various ways, with continuing development of filters and ways of analysing companies. As the market in ESG indexes and investments linked to sustainability matures,…
Over €1trn of EU insurer assets subject to climate risks
Housing exposures make up bulk of those vulnerable to climate change
ING issues ESG-linked interest rate swap
Dutch bank takes carrot-and-stick approach on interest rate swap for oil and gas equipment firm
Q&A: CFTC’s Behnam on tackling market risk in climate change
Commissioner wants to see new derivatives products to help mitigate climate threat
Transaction cost analysis of digital innovation governance in the UK energy market
The latest online early paper in our special issue on blockchain enabled energy markets
BoE makes climate risk a hot topic for banks
Financial institutions must entrust oversight of climate risk to named individual under senior managers regime
HKMA unveils measures to combat climate change risks
HKMA will be government’s representative in a potential HK$100 billion green bond offering
Climate risk disclosure gains momentum but work needed: TCFD
Few firms disclose financial impact of climate risk, review finds
Climate risk rising up agenda for lenders
Reliable measures still some way off, banks admit
Managing adverse temperature conditions through hybrid financial instruments
This paper proposes temperature-based risk management using hybrid financial instruments built on weather derivatives.
US carbon trade surviving below the radar
State-level carbon trading markets are thriving without federal support