Eurozone banks have been told to do more to address the risks of climate change

The European Central Bank has called on banks to “urgently” develop plans to protect their businesses from the risk of climate change following an assessment that found that there were several shortcomings in lending practices to the environmental crisis.

The ECB, which has monitored major eurozone banks for seven years, has concluded first check banking preparation ‘ coping with climate and environmental hazards. He found that no bank was overseen by those who were about to meet the ECB’s expectations. The central bank said lenders “in the end” could face a lot of money because they combine timely monitoring with their regular work to establish bank financing.

The biggest threats to the banks come from power generation companies that do not go to fixed as well as energy-efficient components such as aircraft, according to the analysis. Other risks include renting a home that does not use a lot of energy and thus may have a lower cost of re-selling.

Even banks like HSBC and Bank of America have set up their net zero goals, research has intensified in recent years of this section leasing carbon offsets.

The ECB survey looked at 112 banks with combined assets of € 24tn. Half of these borrowers said climate change will have the “elements” of their businesses over the next three to five years. No bank has ever mentioned the dangers of the weather as “invisible” that have been thoroughly researched, he wrote Frank Elderson, senior member of the ECB and vice-chair of the ECB supervisory board, in a blog post.

Other shortcomings cited by the ECB are the lack of pressure testing to see what can happen to banking businesses in various climate change scenarios, as well as poor planning on how to make their businesses more resilient to climate change. Banks with major shortcomings were encouraged to rectify as part of the ECB’s regular supervisors.

“Banks urgently need to set clear and definite targets – including intermediate measures – to reduce their exposure to climate and future and environmental risks,” Elderson said.

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“Banks are showing real wealth; real economy is unstable so the way banks operate is unstable,” he added.

The ECB found a bright spot. Elderson said two-thirds of banks have “made significant progress” in putting fraudulent risks at their lending options, by focusing more on the risk-based risks they lease or discontinue lending to high-risk companies.

The ECB will publish a report on the banking exposure of climate risks in the first half of 2022 and plans to review the banking system, management system management system management system management system management system management system management system management system management system management system management system management system management system management system management system management system management system management system management system management system management system management system management system management system management of the management of the management of the management of its own management in the first half of next year. The review will only announce the results of the financial plan, not to individual lenders.

In the UK, banks last month issued notices of the Bank of England’s pre-season “stress test”, which the BoE described as “environmental research” unrelated to major requirements. The results, which will be shown as all available from UK banks, are scheduled to be published by May.