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Banks' climate data struggles are clouding their view of price changes, ECB says

Banks in the eurozone struggle to collect even the most basic data on climate risks to commercial real estate, despite evidence that pricing "is already clearly being affected by" physical climate risks, the European Central Bank (ECB) has said.

ECB's approach fails to recognise credit risk of transitioning too fast, says US banks group

The European Central Bank (ECB)'s approach to push banks to reduce their credit risk by decarbonising is flawed, as it oversimplifies the link between emissions and default risk and fails to recognise the risk of "transitioning too fast", a US banking group has claimed.

TPI exploring how to combine its analysis with ASCOR data as it expands coverage

The Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) is exploring how to combine its analysis of corporate climate transition risk with a similar assessment of countries conducted under the Assessing sovereign climate-related opportunities and risks (ASCOR) initiative.

Putting transition plans to the test: Transition Pathway Initiative and ASCOR

Investors face a tough task scrutinising corporate transition plans - but an increasing number of tools promise to help. In the second article in a series, Michael Hurley examines the TPI tool and ASCOR

L&G NTR Clean Energy Fund signs first battery storage deal

Australia, New Zealand to collaborate on sustainable finance taxonomies, labelling

Rio Tinto's 'climate hypocrisy' on lobbying leads ACCR to end engagement

India plans climate finance taxonomy

India's Ministry of Finance has announced funding to create a taxonomy to attract climate finance, spanning adaptation and mitigation activities.

EU banks have already reduced climate risk in response to supervision, say ECB researchers

The European Central Bank (ECB)'s climate-related supervision has already led to an improvement in banks' risk exposure and management, and increased capital allocation towards green finance, according to researchers at the central bank.

Webinar: How central banks are exploring deforestation risks

Central banks are gaining new insights into financial risks associated with deforestation and other land use changes and are encouraging widespread uptake of a novel framework to assess these risks, an Environmental Finance webinar heard.