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Integrating Climate Change Risk into Institutional Investing: From Rhetoric to Action

Integrating Climate Change Risk into Institutional Investing: From Rhetoric to Action

Year Published

2023

Contributing Organizations

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
Toronto Centre
The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)

Type of Resource

Webinar or Podcast

Languages

English

Relevant Topics

Core Topic
Risk Management
Topic 2
Climate Reporting

Target Audience

All

Relevant Geography

Global
Integrating Climate Change Risk into Institutional Investing: From Rhetoric to Action

Resource Description

This podcast features insight from Kathryn Bakos’, Director of Climate Finance and Science at the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation, on integrating physical climate risks into financial decision-making and supervision.

Why This Matters

As financial systems face mounting climate threats, this resource helps bridge the gap between disclosure and action, offering practical tools to better assess and mitigate physical climate risk.

Key Insights

  • Reviews how voluntary frameworks have laid groundwork for climate disclosures, but gaps remain in addressing physical risk and risk reduction
  • Introduces the Climate Risk Matrices (CRMs), a one-page tool designed to help identify key sector-specific climate risks and actions to reduce them
  • Highlights how CRMs can complement global disclosure frameworks and support supervisory guidelines
  • Stresses the importance of building regulatory and institutional capacity to understand and manage physical climate risks

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