Climate Change – The FinReg Blog

Sustainable Finance and Fintech: Can Technology Contribute to Achieving Environmental Goals? A Preliminary Assessment of ‘Green FinTech’

Posted on October 23, 2020October 24, 2020 by Eugenia Macchiavello and Michele Siri

The EU’s Fintech Action Plan (now Digital Finance Strategy) and the Sustainable Finance Strategy represent important pillars of the bloc’s current policy agenda. While the two areas have been treated as separate for a long time, they present certain common features and great potential if combined. The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity for countries in […]

Climate Risk Disclosures & Practices: Highlighting the Need for a Standardized Regulatory Disclosure Framework to Weather the Impacts of Climate Change on Financial Markets

Posted on October 19, 2020 by Lee Reiners and Charlie Wowk

The following is the executive summary of a new report from the Climate Risk Disclosure Lab that highlights the need for a thorough, robust, and mandatory disclosure framework for climate-related information. The report exposes the failure of U.S. regulators to properly incorporate climate change into their mandates and assesses the threats that the vacuum of […]

The Department of Labor Wants to Expose 401(k)s and Pension Plans to Greater Financial Risk from Climate-related Impacts

Posted on October 16, 2020 by Karen E. Torrent

This post first appeared on the Climate Risk Disclosure Lab website. The Lab is a collaboration between the Global Financial Markets Center at Duke Law, Duke’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, and the National Whistleblower Center. On June 23, 2020, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a proposed regulation for public comment aimed […]

The Heat Is On: U.S. Regulators Facing Increasing Pressure to Enhance Climate Disclosures

Posted on October 13, 2020 by Lee Reiners and Charlie Wowk

Hurricane Delta’s landfall in Louisiana last week marked the tenth named storm to hit the United States this year, breaking the record set in 1916. Records, of the ignominious sort, have also been set on the West Coast. California has experienced six of its twenty largest wildfires this year, and on August 16th, Death Valley […]

More Data, Less Problems: A Case for More Precise Climate Data in Investment Allocation

Posted on August 13, 2020August 5, 2020 by Keith MacMaster

This post is the latest in our special issue: “Climate Change and Financial Markets – Risk, Regulation, and Innovation.” To learn more about the special issue and the work of the Global Financial Markets Center around climate change and financial markets, please read the special issue’s introduction here. And to review all The FinReg Blog […]

Insurance as a Critical Tool for Financial Stability in the Anthropocene: A Caribbean Perspective

Posted on August 12, 2020August 1, 2020 by Brent Barnette

This post is the latest in our special issue: “Climate Change and Financial Markets – Risk, Regulation, and Innovation.” To learn more about the special issue and the work of the Global Financial Markets Center around climate change and financial markets, please read the special issue’s introduction here. And to review all The FinReg Blog […]

The Carbon Content of Italian Loans

Posted on August 11, 2020August 1, 2020 by Ivan Faiella and Luciano Lavecchia

This post is the latest in our special issue: “Climate Change and Financial Markets – Risk, Regulation, and Innovation.” To learn more about the special issue and the work of the Global Financial Markets Center around climate change and financial markets, please read the special issue’s introduction here. And to review all The FinReg Blog […]

How Financial Intermediation Costs Affect Climate Policy

Posted on August 10, 2020August 1, 2020 by Kai Lessmann and Matthias Kalkuhl

This post is the latest in our special issue: “Climate Change and Financial Markets – Risk, Regulation, and Innovation.” To learn more about the special issue and the work of the Global Financial Markets Center around climate change and financial markets, please read the special issue’s introduction here. And to review all The FinReg Blog […]

Never Two Without Three: Will the World Listen After the Global Financial Crisis, COP21 and the Pandemic?

Posted on August 7, 2020July 30, 2020 by Lorenzo Esposito and Giuseppe Mastromatteo

This post is the latest in our special issue: “Climate Change and Financial Markets – Risk, Regulation, and Innovation.” To learn more about the special issue and the work of the Global Financial Markets Center around climate change and financial markets, please read the special issue’s introduction here. And to review all The FinReg Blog […]

Financing in the Time of a Climate Emergency in the Philippines

Posted on August 6, 2020July 30, 2020 by Erwin A. Alampay and Dennis dela Torre

This post is the latest in our special issue: “Climate Change and Financial Markets – Risk, Regulation, and Innovation.” To learn more about the special issue and the work of the Global Financial Markets Center around climate change and financial markets, please read the special issue’s introduction here. And to review all The FinReg Blog […]