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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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5 PUBLICATIONS

Position paper

24/03/2025

Sustainable Finance

Bridging the gaps in climate scenarios

Prudential approaches to compensate for underestimated climate costs
Consultation response

28/02/2023

Sustainable Finance

Response to the UK Transition Plan Taskforce Framework and Guidance Consultation
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.
Report

27/03/2019

Sustainable Finance

Global Green Finance Index 3

The third edition of the Global Green Finance Index (GGFI 3) was published on 27 March 2019. It is a ranking of international financial centres – such as Paris, New York, Shanghai etc....
Report

14/03/2018

Sustainable Finance

Global Green Finance Index 1

The Global Green Finance Index (GGFI) ranks the world’s financial centres according to perceptions of the quality and depth of their green finance offerings. This first edition of the index, GGFI 1, was published...

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Sustainable Finance

Level:Beginner

20.06.2025

How the Omnibus proposal sets the foundation for a deregulation agenda

Sustainable Finance

Level:Regular

31.03.2025

Climate risk and insurance: a small step forward, but is it enough?

Sustainable Finance

Level:Regular

25.03.2025

Unprepared, the financial system will triple people’s bills for climate change
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