Climate change
FSB warns of ‘breadth and magnitude’ of climate risks
Report warns climate risk could be more challenging to address than other economic risks
Asean central banks call for joint action on climate risk
Asean policy-makers have work to do if they are to catch up with climate leaders, report says
Canada launches climate risk scenario pilot
Project will test volunteer institutions for their exposure to climate change risk
UK government pledges economy-wide climate disclosures by 2025
FCA says firms worth $3.8 trillion will disclose climate risks over next three years
BoE warns banks: start preparing for a higher carbon price
Risk Live: stress tests should assume rising carbon price, regardless of government policy, says Breeden
Fed examines climate risks in stability report for first time
It is “vitally important” that climate risks are “assessed and addressed”, says Lael Brainard
BoE will not use climate stress tests to set capital buffers – Bailey
Andrew Bailey reveals new details of tests, with launch set for summer of 2021
Currency Benchmarks 2020 report – the data behind the cash cycle
Perspectives on staffing, circulation, forecasting, fraud, substrate choice, outsourcing and climate risk
Green projects ‘demanding’ to find – Norway’s SWF head
Chairman tells lawmakers he may expand fund’s use of external managers
Most central banks not measuring banknote carbon footprint
Very few institutions have cash climate strategy but over 50% are recycling their unfit banknotes
Firms still making too few climate disclosures, task force says
TFCD report highlights rapid rise in firms backing disclosure, but says fewer are taking action
Malaysia’s central bank to launch climate taxonomy in 2021
Information asymmetry among financial firms is hampering green lending, assistant governor says
Nobel laureate envisages climate change-fighting ‘club’
Green finance will not be enough to halt climate change, says William Nordhaus
Banks and regulators call for global climate risk standards
Carney and Winters warn private sector cannot move much further without lawmakers
Covid-19 bolsters support for greener future – Menon
Managing director takes stock of economic damage but says future will be a sustainable one
Bank of Spain sets out research priorities for 2020–24
Central bank will focus on long-term trends including climate change, digitalisation, ageing and more
Frank Smets on the ECB’s strategy review
The ECB’s DG of economics explains how expectations, communication, fiscal dominance, climate change and the Fed’s actions will be factored into the ECB’s delayed strategy review
UK government could give BoE ‘green’ asset holding remit – official
Government could alter BoE’s asset-holding remit to take account of climate-related risks – Hauser
ECB will consider dropping market neutrality – Lagarde
Policy review will consider abandoning principle guiding asset purchases, but Bundesbank’s Weidmann is opposed
Canadian households face ‘crucial’ months – BoC governor
Macklem warns that financial risks to households are likely to rise as loan deferrals end
Carbon tax could help monetary policy – ECB paper
But tax will only improve welfare if alternatives to carbon-based power are available, say researchers
Beyond climate: addressing the ‘E’ in ESG
Environmental degradation raises fundamental questions about how central banks think about risk
EBRD commits to 50% green investment policy
Three candidates from European finance ministries compete to become bank’s next president
ECB open to above-target inflation – Lagarde
President lays out strategy review goals, hinting approach could bring ECB closer to the Fed