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July 2019

Macroeconomic and Financial Stability - Implications of climate change

Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS)
This document is a technical supplement to the First comprehensive report – Call for action published in April 2019. It describes the impact of climate change on macroeconomics and financial stability, along with its modelling process, knowledge and methodology gaps, and options for central banks and supervisors to respond to this risk.
January 2018

Toward a Financial Architecture to Protect Tropical Forests

Forest Trends
This report Toward a Financial Architecture to Protect Tropical Forests focuses on Brazil both as a critical forest country and in order to describe an architecture of finance based on a particular framework of law and existing institutional efforts to protect forests.
September 2015

Banking and Sustainability Time for Convergence: A Policy Briefing on the Links Between Financial Stability and Environmental Sustainability

Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System (UN Environment Inquiry), University of Cambridge, United Nations Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)

In 2014, the UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL, working with and on behalf of the Banking Environment Initiative – BEI) commissioned a study entitled, “Stability and Sustainability in Banking Reform – Are Environmental

June 2019

Greening the Financial System: The new frontier

Banque de France
In this report, Banque de France identifies climate‑related risk as a source of financial risks, assesses their potential financial and macroeconomic impacts, and highlights the opportunities associated with financing a transition to a low-carbon economy.
February 2017

A Review of International Financial Standards as They Relate to Sustainable Development

Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System (UN Environment Inquiry)
This report A Review of International Financial Standards as They Relate to Sustainable Development examines how the international financial standards currently relate to the goals of sustainable development and explores opportunities for better alignment as a way to promote greater stability, resilience and fairness to the financial system.
November 2017

Roadmap for a Sustainable Financial System

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), World Bank Group, Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System (UN Environment Inquiry)
The Roadmap for a Sustainable Financial System proposes an integrated approach to accelerate the transformation toward a sustainable financial system that can be used by all financial sector stakeholders and can bring policy cohesiveness across ministries, central banks, financial regulators, and private financial sector participants to focus efforts.
June 2018

Roadmap for Green Competitiveness in the Financial Sector

Finans Norge
Finance Norway has developed a Roadmap for Green Competitiveness in the Financial Sector, pointing the way to a profitable and sustainable financial sector in Norway by 2030.
October 2019

The Public Costs of Climate-Induced Financial Instability

Nature Climate Change
This paper examines how climate-related damages impact the stability of the global banking system.
June 2017

Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures

Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
The report Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures presents four widely adaptable recommendations on climate-related financial disclosures that are applicable to organisations across sectors and jurisdictions
April 2020

Climate-Related Financial Risks: a survey on current initiatives

This report discusses the results of a survey on current initiatives for climate-related financial risks.

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