Nowadays, well, things have changed.
In recent months, the Fed has extended its responsibilities as a bank regulator to the fight against climate change. Where once the Fed used its power over interest rates to control inflation and keep borrowing costs low, it now is taking on the role of making sure job gains are spread equally among income, racial and gender groups.
If this doesn t sound like your parents Fed, or even legendary former Chairman Paul Volcker s, you re not alone.
Wall Street increasingly has noticed the central bank s expansion of its mandate, and some are none too happy about it.
BIS: Climate And Environmental Risks - Guide For Supervisors - Executive Summary Date
To help meet the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement, the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) aims to ensure that financial firms manage their climate-related and environmental risks. In May 2020, it published its Guide for Supervisors – Integrating climate-related and environmental risks into prudential supervision. The guide s recommendations provide authorities with a roadmap to integrate climate-related and environmental risks in supervisory frameworks and includes five recommendations.
Recommendation 1
Supervisors should determine how climate-related and environmental risks transmit to their economies and financial sectors and identify material risks for supervised entities.
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The Biden administration issued an executive order Thursday giving Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen six months to recommend steps to reduce the risks to financial stability posed by climate change. Her assessment will incorporate financial regulators’ plans to boost climate-risk disclosures.
The order also asks National Economic Council Director Brian Deese and National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy, in coordination with Yellen and the Office of Management and Budget, to identify and disclose, within 120 days, the extent of exposure government programs and assets have to climate risks. Our modern financial system was built on the assumption that the climate was stable, and that assumption has largely dominated existing financial models, and it’s underpinned the way that we invest capital, the way that we have built society, and the way that we have forecasted for the long term, Deese said Thursday, according to Bloomberg. Today it’s cle
EBA Publishes Results Of EU-Wide Pilot Exercise On Climate Risk Date
22/05/2021
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today the findings of its first EU-wide pilot exercise on climate risk, whose main objective is to map banks’ exposures to climate risk and provide an insight into the green estimation efforts banks have carried out so far. The findings give a clear picture of banks’ data gaps and highlight the sense of urgency to remedy them if they are to achieve a meaningful and smooth transition to a low-carbon economy. It is only through a more harmonised approach and common metrics that banks’ efforts will prove meaningful in addressing and mitigating the potentially disruptive impacts of environmental risks. The findings also show big differences in banks’ application of the EU taxonomy. A first estimate of the starting point of their green asset ratio (GAR) estimated with a top-down tool currently stands at 7.9%.