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Climate Risk in Action: A Conversation with Practitioners
November 16, 2021Addressing climate risks, together with measuring and disclosing, has become a critical aspect for financial institutions. In this training, speakers from HSBC, Moody’s, and Suisse Re focused on the need to translate climate change information into financial impacts, strengthen accountability and mandatory reporting of climate-related data, and stop segmenting climate finance as an opportunistic investment strategy.
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Climate Risk Management For Financial Institutions
September 16, 2021Two major impediments for commercial banks to manage climate risk are the unfamiliarity of regulatory guidelines and the un/underdeveloped capacity to measure climate risk. This panel discussion addressed the most often asked questions from commercial banks - how to integrate climate risk management into their business, and whether there is a global standard to measure climate risk for financial institutions.
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Climate Risk From the Regulatory Perspective
August 31, 2021Climate change is disruptive for the banking sector in terms of the risks that banks need to manage, the opportunities that it brings, and the responsibilities that banks face with their stakeholders. Banking regulators around the world are formalizing new approaches to integrate climate risk considerations into their regulatory framework. Experts from the World Bank and national regulators analyzed climate-related financial risks, the latest development on the global regulatory landscape, and case studies from the Philippines and South Africa.
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Bill Winters, Group CEO of Standard Chartered, revealed insights into how fighting climate change and the broader need for sustainable development is changing banking. The transition to net zero carbon emissions is the challenge of our generation. This challenge is especially evident in Standard Chartered’ s footprint markets across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, which are most vulnerable to climate change and need the most funding to ensure continuing economic development.
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Practitioner Talk - Building A Green Future
July 21, 2021Through savings in additional costs (between 0.5 and 12 percent), green buildings can help investors and owners manage the risks associated with transitioning to a lower-carbon economy. Our panelists spoke about the challenges for developers, owners, and investors to equalize supply and demand for green buildings. One of major challenges is the public overestimates the marginal cost of green buildings by up to 30% more compared to constructing a non-green building.
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CEO Talk - Building A Green Future
July 14, 2021Counting for over 40 percent of the global carbon emissions, the building sector has a critical role to play in reducing the environmental impact. The discussion from this panel unveiled the strategies and initiatives in greening the real estate sector, as well as opportunities in green building in Asia.
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Green Building Market and Investment Opportunities
May 28, 2021Globally, buildings account for 19 percent of the world’s GHG emissions. In Asia, the investment potential in new green developments and retrofitting existing buildings is in the region of US$16 trillion. If the right investment choices are not made today, we will be looking into high-carbon urban infrastructure for the next 40 to 70 years. The webinar shared compelling case studies of IFC’s investments and green building design support through EDGE certification.
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CEO Talk - Green Opportunities For Bank Transformation
April 27, 2021The Asia-Pacific region has the highest climate-smart investment potential in the world. To seize its enormous potential and limit global warming, it is more important now than ever for banks to build their capacity to green their operations and adequately assess, manage, and disclose ESG risks. This webinar facilitated a discussion with former CEO of HSBC, Chief Executive of HKMA, and other executive directors, which demonstrated that the transformation into green banks can create effective market-based solutions and address a range of impacts that emerge from climate change while at the same time allow banks to identify and secure new business opportunities.
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Green Commercial Bank Transformation
March 25, 2021To stand a chance of combatting climate change we need to urgently accelerate the transformation of green banks and financial institutions. Climate investments represent a US$23 trillion investment opportunity, but banks and other financial institutions can contribute by more than just investing at their disposal to stimulate climate finance. In this virtual event, speakers from Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and IFC helped us envision and come to terms with the urgent need for financing climate action.
