Climate Change Toolkit

Year Published

2017

Contributing Organizations

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Global Affairs Canada (GAC)

Toronto Centre

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)

Type of Resource

Research/Insights Report

Languages

English

Relevant Topics

Core Topic

Risk Management

Topic 2

Transition Plans

Target Audience

All

Relevant Geography

Global

Resource Description

This resource offers guidance to help financial supervisors identify, assess, and respond to climate-related risks within financial systems. It serves as a toolkit to support climate integration across supervisory activities.

Why This Matters

Climate risks threaten financial stability, especially in vulnerable economies. Supervisors are key to strengthening institutions’ resilience, improving disclosure, and promoting sustainable finance.

Key Insights

Explains how physical and transition risks impact financial institutions across credit, market, and operational channels
Advises supervisors to assess governance, risk management, capital adequacy, and disclosures related to climate risk
Recommends tools such as scenario analysis and stress testing to evaluate institutions’ resilience
Promotes alignment with international disclosure standards, to improve transparency
Encourages supervisors to support inclusive, climate-aligned finance through regulation and engagement

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