To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The 2015 United Nations climate change summit in Paris (COP21) saw the first ever agreement under which virtually every country, including the UK, pledged to constrain their greenhouse gas emissions, with the aim of keeping average temperature increases well below 2˚C above pre-industrial levels. Globally, there has been an increasing recognition by central banks and financial services regulators of the potential impact of climate change on financial services markets and the important role that financial services markets have on helping to combat climate change. In the UK, the Government issued its 25 year Environment Plan in