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A Burden They Will Carry: The potential economic & financial cost of climate liabilities to companies and investors

This paper is a thought experiment about how to quantify corporate climate costs that can form the basis of future litigation and policy actions.... Read More >

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Financial Supervision Beyond the Business Cycle: Towards a New Paradigm

Working paper in partnership with Oxford Sustainable Finance Program and INSPIRE... Read More >

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Finance 2030: A Time Travel Exercise

This paper is the latest in a series sponsored by Climate-KIC and UNEP-FI, “Aligning finance to the net-zero economy."... Read More >

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A Corporate Rainy-Day Fund: A regulatory approach to ensuring financial resilience in the face of future risks

Non-financial corporates are massively underprepared for future economic crises and overly reliant on government bailouts, according to a new report published by Sustaina... Read More >

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Stress-testing COVID-19

This paper provides a stress-test template for financial supervisors to simulate potential losses on banks’ and insurers’ balance sheets under six different COVID-19 ... Read More >

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A Primer on Long-Term Financial Supervision

This report explores the materiality of long-term risks, which can create significant financial stability risks to financial markets while being outside the time horizon ... Read More >

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Climate stress-testing simulation game

Sustainable Finance Observatory (formerly 2DII)’s 1in1000 program, in partnership with the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance, has launched a new climate stress-test s... Read More >

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Into the Fire… Financial Supervision in a Post-Crisis / Pre-Crisis World

The world of financial supervision is changing. The last decade of financial supervision has largely been dedicated to dealing with the fallout of the global financial cr... Read More >

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Storm Ahead: A Proposal for a Climate Stress-Test Scenario

This report provides guidelines for building an adverse climate scenario that can be used by financial supervisors as inputs into either traditional or climate-specific s... Read More >

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The Carbon Boomerang

Climate change-related litigation risks have the potential to act as both a material driver, and consequence, of the energy transition (or ‘ET’). ... Read More >

Report Risk management & supervision Regulators & policymakers

A Burden They Will Carry: The potential economic & financial cost of climate liabilities to companies and investors