Managing Climate Risks, Facing up to Losses and Damages

Managing Climate Risks, Facing up to Losses and Damages
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2021-11-01
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ISBN: 9264439668

This report addresses the urgent issue of climate-related losses and damages. Climate change is driving fundamental changes to the planet with adverse impacts on human livelihoods and well-being, putting development gains at risk.

ECB Report on Good Practices for Climate Stress Testing

ECB Report on Good Practices for Climate Stress Testing
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
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ISBN: 9789289954600

Climate stress testing exercises have emerged as a key tool for supervisors to assess the impact of climate-related risks on the banking system. Banks themselves are also making more and more use of climate stress testing exercises to inform required disclosures and strategic choices in the context of their climate-related risk management. The 2022 ECB climate stress test (CST) was a unique exercise in terms of its exploratory nature and learning character. The exercise acted as a catalyst for banks to start or continue working on all aspects of prudent climate stress testing. While banks have made some progress on incorporating climate-related risks into their stress testing frameworks and have delivered comprehensive and innovative information despite the prevailing challenges, the results also show that we are at the start of a long journey. There is a high level of inconsistency across banks' practices, and several areas of climate stress testing have been identified where there is need for improvement. The objective of this report is to provide banks with examples and suggestions on how to improve their climate stress testing capabilities based on identified good practices from the 2022 ECB CST and to support banks in their transitional journey. This report aims to facilitate banks' efforts to align their practices with the supervisory expectations set out in the ECB Guide on climate-related and environmental risks ("the Guide"). In particular, this report offers banks support in addressing Expectation 11 of the Guide, which focuses on the necessity to adequately incorporate climate and environmental risks in banks' stress testing frameworks. The report on good practices for climate-related and environmental risk management from the 2022 thematic review on the other hand addresses the rest of the supervisory expectations outlined in the Guide.The good practices outlined in this report should also help banks and supervisors to prepare for future CST exercises.

Managing Climate Risk in the U.S. Financial System

Managing Climate Risk in the U.S. Financial System
Author: Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
Publisher: U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2020-09-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 057874841X

This publication serves as a roadmap for exploring and managing climate risk in the U.S. financial system. It is the first major climate publication by a U.S. financial regulator. The central message is that U.S. financial regulators must recognize that climate change poses serious emerging risks to the U.S. financial system, and they should move urgently and decisively to measure, understand, and address these risks. Achieving this goal calls for strengthening regulators’ capabilities, expertise, and data and tools to better monitor, analyze, and quantify climate risks. It calls for working closely with the private sector to ensure that financial institutions and market participants do the same. And it calls for policy and regulatory choices that are flexible, open-ended, and adaptable to new information about climate change and its risks, based on close and iterative dialogue with the private sector. At the same time, the financial community should not simply be reactive—it should provide solutions. Regulators should recognize that the financial system can itself be a catalyst for investments that accelerate economic resilience and the transition to a net-zero emissions economy. Financial innovations, in the form of new financial products, services, and technologies, can help the U.S. economy better manage climate risk and help channel more capital into technologies essential for the transition. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5247742

International Environmental Risk Management

International Environmental Risk Management
Author: Robert A. Woellner
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2020-08-13
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1351680714

Based on the first edition with extensive analysis of practical applications of environmental risk management and compliance management systems, this second edition of International Environmental Risk Management reflects updates made in the understanding and application of risk management best practices and makes available a frame of reference and systematic approach to environmental and social governance (ESG). It provides a pathway for readers to implement environmental management strategies that can be integrated with core operations and other risk management efforts, including supporting sustainability and corporate social responsibility initiatives associated with climate change, the circular economy or supply chain conditions, as well as enterprise risk management; anti-bribery, and other compliance management systems. This book provides in-depth discussions of ways to use global environmental management standards. New features in this edition: Combines EMS standards with discussion of specific principles, other authors’ research, and guidelines on management practices. Provides guidelines on how to prepare for, anticipate, and resolve environmental issues. Includes easily understandable information for all readers and is not simply aimed toward individuals who are knowledgeable about this topic. Provides in-depth discussions on using global environmental management standards to manage risk and promote resilience, as well as legal strategies and voluntary initiatives that companies can utilize to minimize risk. Accounts for the substantive revisions in ISO 14001:2015. As a growing and rapidly changing field, it is necessary to address new issues, guidelines, and regulations to assist businesses, academia, students, consultants, lawyers, and environmental managers with a pragmatic resolution to environmental risk management issues. This second edition gives a broad and detailed analysis of the changes made to international standards and practices and serves as an excellent guide to managing environmental risk.

Confronting Climate Uncertainty in Water Resources Planning and Project Design

Confronting Climate Uncertainty in Water Resources Planning and Project Design
Author: Patrick A. Ray
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2015-08-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1464804788

Confronting Climate Uncertainty in Water Resources Planning and Project Design describes an approach to facing two fundamental and unavoidable issues brought about by climate change uncertainty in water resources planning and project design. The first is a risk assessment problem. The second relates to risk management. This book provides background on the risks relevant in water systems planning, the different approaches to scenario definition in water system planning, and an introduction to the decision-scaling methodology upon which the decision tree is based. The decision tree is described as a scientifically defensible, repeatable, direct and clear method for demonstrating the robustness of a project to climate change. While applicable to all water resources projects, it allocates effort to projects in a way that is consistent with their potential sensitivity to climate risk. The process was designed to be hierarchical, with different stages or phases of analysis triggered based on the findings of the previous phase. An application example is provided followed by a descriptions of some of the tools available for decision making under uncertainty and methods available for climate risk management. The tool was designed for the World Bank but can be applicable in other scenarios where similar challenges arise.

Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate

Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate
Author: Barbara Zanuttigh
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 671
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0123973317

Existing coastal management and defense approaches are not well suited to meet the challenges of climate change and related uncertanities. Professionals in this field need a more dynamic, systematic and multidisciplinary approach. Written by an international group of experts, Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate provides innovative, multidisciplinary best practices for mitigating the effects of climate change on coastal structures. Based on the Theseus program, the book includes eight study sites across Europe, with specific attention to the most vulnerable coastal environments such as deltas, estuaries and wetlands, where many large cities and industrial areas are located. Integrated risk assessment tools for considering the effects of climate change and related uncertainties Presents latest insights on coastal engineering defenses Provides integrated guidelines for setting up optimal mitigation measures Provides directly applicable tools for the design of mitigation measures Highlights socio-economic perspectives in coastal mitigation

Biodiversity: Finance and the Economic and Business Case for Action

Biodiversity: Finance and the Economic and Business Case for Action
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9264597042

This report sets the economic and business case for urgent and ambitious action on biodiversity. It presents a preliminary assessment of current biodiversity-related finance flows, and discusses the key data and indicator gaps that need to be addressed to underpin effective monitoring of both the pressures on biodiversity and the actions (i.e. responses) being implemented. The report concludes with ten priority areas where G7 and other countries can prioritise their efforts.

The Importance of Being Transparent

The Importance of Being Transparent
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
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ISBN: 9789289960663

As part of the supervisory work on the transparency of banks' risk profiles, the European Central Bank (ECB) is publishing its third review of the disclosure of climate-related and environmental (C&E) risks among significant institutions (SIs) and a selected number of less significant institutions (LSIs). The assessment of C&E risk management and disclosures was highlighted as one of the supervisory priorities for 2023-25 and is based on the expectations set out by the ECB in its Guide on climate-related and environmental risks (the Guide), which was published in November 2020 to ensure that the banking sector discloses C&E risks effectively and comprehensively. In 2023, the SIs within the scope of application of the Commission Implementing Regulation henceforth referred to as the European Banking Authority (EBA) Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on Pillar 3 disclosures on environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks1 will be required to disclose information as per the Annexes of the ITS, with reference date 31st of December 2022. The assessment covered the existence, substantiation and soundness of disclosures across key areas of the expectations, including materiality assessment, business model and strategy, governance, risk management, and metrics and targets, as per the ECB Guide expectation 13. The review was conducted by the ECB and national competent authorities (NCAs) and covered 103 SIs and 28 LSIs. In addition, the disclosures of 12 global systematically important banks (G-SIBs) established outside the European Union (EU) were benchmarked against the disclosures of the EU banks within the scope of the assessment. This report describes the main findings of the review for all these institutions. The outcome of this exercise shows that the majority of SIs now disclose at least basic information for most of the expectations. Most banks have now improved their public disclosures to address C&E risks, having clearly built up their capabilities in 2022. Most banks disclose basic information on materiality assessments and governance, and more than half of the banks disclose basic information on business strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets. However, banks still need to close remaining gaps to disclose all relevant C&E risk information as only 34% of the banks disclose information on all categories.