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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

Joint statement

EU sustainability disclosures are no threat to competitiveness – Joint letter

Finance Watch alongside 90+ organisations urges EU leaders to refrain from gutting EU’s hard-won sustainability framework, an essential brick that is no less than a pre-condition to wiring EU finance to a...
Policy brief

Policy brief – Empower investors to drive the climate transition

Towards more credible and transparent transition plans
Policy brief

“Safe transition planning for banks”: Recommendations for EU’s new ‘prudential’ transition plans

In this policy brief, Finance Watch makes concrete recommendations for the upcoming EBA requirements on “prudential” transition plans for EU banks in order to bring legal certainty and comparability and make transition...
Open letter

Open letter – Insurers’ capital requirements should reflect transition risk

In a joint letter signed by 19 other organisations, Finance Watch urged the Board of Supervisors of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) to protect policyholders and taxpayers by reflecting...
Consultation response

Improving transparency and understandability for retail investors: A reaction to the 2024 joint ESAs’ opinion on SFDR

Consultation response

Progress on climate scenario analysis is necessary but not sufficient – Feedback to BCBS on the use of CSA in supervision and risk management

Joint statement

Joint Statement – Why carbon offsetting undermines climate targets

Finance Watch joined forces with more than 80 civil society organizations to warn that a reliance on carbon credits will likely “slow down global emission reductions.” and call on global companies and...
Consultation response

Finance Watch commends the IAIS for embracing double materiality in Insurance Core Principles (consultation response)

Position paper

Sustainable investing: Tailoring the transparency framework for retail investors – Position Paper

Finance Watch’s recommendations to align PRIIPS and sustainability preferences with SFDR
Position paper

Rethinking SFDR: Finance Watch’s proposal in 10 questions – Position Paper

How to strengthen the sustainability transparency framework for financial products
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