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Our planet must remain livable and the financial industry plays a key role in securing its future: financial flows must be re-oriented from environmentally harmful activities to a sustainable economy.

Financial regulation, alongside other policies, should ensure private finance becomes an enabler of sustainable transition. This requires:

  • Transparency and corporate governance reforms to ensure real-world outcomes and prevent greenwashing.
  • Robust risk management and adequate capital levels of financial institutions to make them resilient, ensure a “safe transition” and avoid a climate-driven financial crisis.
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18 PUBLICATIONS

Report

11/04/2024

Sustainable Finance

Report – Transition Planning for Insurers: A supervisory tool to improve climate risk resilience

As climate chaos seals the fate of usual economic models in the insurance sector, transition plans are poised to become lifelines for insurers and for the whole economy. This report highlights the...
Open letter

26/03/2024

Sustainable Finance

Open letter calling on the BCBS to enshrine the principle of “full transparency” in disclosures of climate-related financial risk

In an open-letter signed by 30+ experts, practitioners and global stakeholders, Finance Watch called on the Basel Committee to enshrine the principle of “full transparency” in disclosures of climate-related financial risk in...
Consultation response

25/03/2024

Sustainable Finance

Banks should also disclose the results of capital adequacy assessment (BCBS consultation on climate risk disclosure)
Consultation response

06/10/2023

Sustainable Finance

BCBS Core principles: the specificity of climate risk requires a precautionary approach (Consultation)
Joint statement

18/01/2023

Sustainable Finance

Joint letter – 16 organisations urge ECON to bolster action against climate risk in Basel III finalisation

In a joint letter signed by 16 organisations, Finance Watch and partners urged Members of the ECON Committee to take credible action to tackle climate-related financial risks and to fully implement the...
Joint statement

08/12/2022

Sustainable Finance

Joint Statement calling for a robust and ambitious Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)

Finance Watch, along with members of the Informal Group on Sustainable Finance calls for stronger requirements on transition plans, directors’ remuneration and oversight and due diligence for the financial sector in the...
Open letter

10/11/2022

Sustainable Finance

Open letter calling on the G20 for a #SafeTransition

In an open letter signed by more than 60 organisations, Finance Watch and partners called on the G20 leaders to recognise fossil fuel exposures of banks as ‘higher risk assets’ under the...
Report

03/10/2022

Sustainable Finance

Report – A safer transition for fossil banking: Quantifying capital needed to reflect transition risk

New research shows the world’s 60 biggest banks have $1.35 trillion USD of exposures to fossil fuel assets. Capital increase needed to reflect risk is equivalent to 3-5 months of bank profits.
Consultation response

04/08/2022

Sustainable Finance

Response to the EBA Discussion Paper on Environmental Risks in the Prudential Framework
Open letter

07/07/2022

Sustainable Finance

Open letter: banks and insurers must account for climate risk

In the open letter below, sent to policymakers in the European Parliament, Finance Watch and 13 partners call to include mandatory transition plans and capital requirements for climate-related risks in their review...
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Sustainable Finance

Level:Regular

13.12.2023

COP28: 5 reforms to bridge the climate finance gap

Sustainable Finance

Level:Expert

17.05.2023

ESG ratings must disaggregate ESG parameters to repair sustainable investors’ trust

Sustainable Finance

Level:Expert

03.04.2023

Europe must harmonise its patchwork of transition plan requirements
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