Assessing and disclosing climate-related financial risk

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Introduction

Physical climate risk has emerged as a prominent threat to the financial sector and the global economy. Understanding investments’ exposure to risk from climate hazards is a critical step toward building resilience.

Knowledge base

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How can policy makers help strengthen corporate climate disclosure to scale up private climate finance?

To scale up private climate finance, investors must be able to identify corporations that are serious about climate action and have better information on where to direct their investments to have the biggest impact on climate goals.
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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Steering climate risk: How banks can be future-ready

Many of the sectors that are vulnerable to climate change, such as agriculture, infrastructure, and energy, are heavily dependent on the banking sector for financing.
Economic Times, the
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Documents and publications

Climate risk reporting initiatives and requirements for Swedish real estate investors: a brief overview

This brief provides an overview of the different reporting frameworks that are applicable to financial actors and corporates, especially in the EU, to increase understanding of the climate risk disclosure landscape.
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Bringing physical climate risk into institutional investing

New report identifies the top climate and extreme weather risks that affect a company’s performance.
University of Waterloo
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Documents and publications

Transitioning from rhetoric to action: Integrating physical climate change and extreme weather risk into institutional investing

This report presents a practical means to factor climate change and extreme weather risk into institutional investing.
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Bank of Canada begins disclosing climate-related risks

The Bank of Canada began disclosing climate-related risks to its operations and balance sheet this week – a move intended to inspire other financial institutions to raise their game on climate-related disclosure.
Globe and Mail, the
Research briefs

Wildfire threats not commonly disclosed by U.S. firms despite risk to economy

Public companies bury such risks, UC Davis researchers suggest.
University of California, Davis
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Documents and publications

Sovereign climate and nature reporting: Proposal for a risks and opportunities disclosure framework

The purpose of this report is to raise awareness and initiate a discussion on the need for sovereign sustainability reporting.
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NZ biggest firms will soon have to disclose their climate risk – but will it really curb climate change?

Climate change has many catastrophic consequences, including droughts, floods, wildfires, heat waves, rising sea levels and biodiversity loss. These all have adverse implications for social cohesion, economic development and financial stability.
Conversation Media Group, the
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Documents and publications

Results of the 2021 Climate Biennial Exploratory Scenario (CBES)

The Bank of England (Bank) has published the results of the Climate Biennial Exploratory Scenario to explore the financial risks posed by climate change for the largest UK banks and insurers (participants).

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