Webinars

The world’s biggest central banks are taking active steps towards driving real climate information and risk disclosure, and thinking through the incentives/disincentives in the monetary system for capital mobilisation to lower CO2 businesses, projects and investments. The Bank of England has confirmed its inaugural climate stress testing to take place in July 2021. The Bank of Canada is working on improving country-specific climate scenario modeling towards the end of 2021. And the green central banking group, the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) is amplifying its work across global jurisdictions. However, the challenges with disclosure, data and definitions remain, and there are calls for central banks to become more active by clearly focusing stimulus and allocating their own reserves towards the green transition.

Responsible Investor, in partnership with MSCI, will explore the vital role of central banks in fighting t…