Our new landmark report ’The problem lies in the net – How finance can contribute to making the world reach its greenhouse gas net-zero target’, provides policymakers the way to...
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Financial institutions contribute to accelerating climate change by financing greenhouse gas emitting activities. In turn, they themselves are impacted by the devastating consequences of climate-related events, as well as transition...
Finance Watch called on EU leaders not to miss the opportunity of the upcoming review of banking and insurance prudential legislation to properly integrate climate risk
While it is now certain that climate change will destabilise the financial sector, measuring with any degree of precision its impact on financial institutions presents an impossible task for supervisors.
Until we reform it, our financial system will continue to fund the fossil economy. Finance Watch guides you through 9 reforms that would make a real difference.
We must hardwire sustainability within the financial system
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By promoting the selling of bad loans to taxpayer-funded bad banks, or by passing on their risk to capital market investors in a non-transparent and unsafe way through securitisation, there...
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