How central banks are tackling climate change risks
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Author: Silvia Anna Ainio, Policy Officer, European Commission
Central banks have an increasingly critical role in tackling climate change policy objectives.
Incorporating climate-related risks into regulatory frameworks remains challenging but central banks are starting to lead the way.
The case for incorporating climate change into macroeconomic modeling and investment decisions has never been stronger. Extreme weather events such as floods and storms have now become more frequent, and their impact on growth and inflation is increasingly visible and felt around the world. Recent research has shown how climate change can have a strong impact on the stability of the global banking system by increasing the frequency of banking crises in the medium to long-term.
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Panellists:
François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry of Canada
Jay R. Inslee, Governor of the State of Washington
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, President, Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT)
Feike Sybesma, Honorary Chairman, Royal DSM, Netherlands
Anish Shah, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Mahindra Group, India
What’s the World Economic Forum doing about climate change?
Climate change poses an urgent threat demanding decisive action. Communities around the world are already experiencing increased climate impacts, from droughts to floods to rising seas. The World Economic Forum s Global Risks Report continues to rank these environmental threats at the top of the list.
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To deal with the vulnerabilities of AI, engineers and developers need to evaluate existing security methods, develop new tools and strategies, and formulate technical guidelines and standards, said Arndt Von Twickel, Technical Officer at Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), at a recent AI for Good webinar.
New vulnerabilities
So-called “connectionist AI” systems support safety-critical applications like autonomous driving, which is set to be allowed on United Kingdom roads this year. Despite reaching “superhuman” performance levels in complex tasks like manoeuvring a vehicle, AI systems can still make critical mistakes based
As AI becomes increasingly embedded worldwide, fresh questions are emerging about how to safeguard machine learning systems - and the data that trains them - against malicious attacks.