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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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113 PUBLICATIONS

Position paper

Assessing transition risk in prudential transition plans

Principles to identify and manage deviation from Paris-aligned pathways
Consultation response

Recommendations to EIOPA on the integration of sustainability risks in Solvency II

Position paper

A safer use of climate scenario analysis by banks

Key recommendations for a robust assessment of climate-related financial risk
Consultation response

Feedback to the EBA on requirements for ESG Scenario Analysis

Consultation response

Finance Watch’s response to the consultation on Taxonomy criteria and disclosures – Consultation response

Position paper

Bridging the gaps in climate scenarios

Prudential approaches to compensate for underestimated climate costs
Position paper

Foundations for simple, transparent and meaningful SFDR product categories

Key considerations for defining product categories and respective minimum criteria
Joint statement

Joint call for clearer ESG categorisation rules for individual investors – Joint Letter

Finance Watch, Better Finance, and the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) call on the European Commission to remove any confusing categories (ESG Collection), and to make engagement a binding element, at least for...
Open letter

Swift action needed to address fossil fuel risks to financial stability – Open letter

In a letter signed by 22 civil society organisations and experts, Finance Watch urges Commissioner Albuquerque to follow up to EIOPA’s November recommendation to introduce higher capital requirements for fossil fuel assets...
Consultation response

IAIS progresses but must do more to capture climate risk in the ICP framework – Consultation

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