This report provides guidelines to build an adverse climate scenario that can be used by financial supervisors as inputs into either traditional or climate-specific stress-tests of regulated entities. The report has been designed to cover the key metrics and indicators found in traditional stress-tests, integrating both risks associated with the transition to a low-carbon economy as well as physical risks in a +4°C / +6°C world. The report provides both insights into key indicators needed in the context of climate stress-tests or scenario analysis, the values they would take in the context of transition risk and physical risk analysis based on the existing literature, options for modelling these indicators moving forward, and example applications developed by the 2° Investing Initiative.
The Global Sustainable Investment Review 2018 summarizes the status of sustainable and responsible investing in Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia and New Zealand. In the period since the last report was released, the global sustainable investment market has continued to grow, and in most of the regions covered by GSIA’s member organizations, its share of professionally managed assets has also grown.
This report explores how a number of African countries are designing systems to simultaneously achieve their climate targets and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Building on a study of Asian Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), the report takes an in-depth look at NDCs of seven African countries: Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic (CAR), Ghana, Malawi, Niger, Swaziland, and Zambia, and analyzes NDCs of several other African countries.
This report looks at why such a large share of coal power is struggling today and the drivers—including subsidies—that may cause similar crises in the future. In light of this, it sets out some broad proposals on the topic of “just transition,” which encourages governments to recognize stranded workers and communities as much as stranded private or public assets.
While other sectors are accelerating their emissions reductions, the share of emissions from heavy industry is projected to increase dramatically under business as usual. As such, industry has a key role to play in the decarbonisation of the European economy to fulfill the EU’s commitments under the Paris agreement. This report explores the technical and economic aspects of the transition and suggests methods to be employed to enable climate neutrality in heavy industry.
