Climate change can be a source of financial risk. This paper examines how credit rating agencies accepted by the Eurosystem incorporate climate change risk in their credit ratings. It also analyses how rating agencies disclose their assessments of climate change risks to rating users. The paper...

Over the past few years it has become increasingly clear that the physical consequences of climate change and the transition to a carbon-neutral economy are posing risks to companies and must be managed accordingly. At the same time, around half a million sites belonging to companies and other...

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humankind this century. If left unchecked, it is likely to result in more frequent and severe climatic events, with the potential to cause substantial disruption to our economies, businesses and livelihoods in the coming decades. Yet the...

Ziel des Projekts war die Bestandsaufnahme und Weiterentwicklung von Kriterien, Methoden und Instrumenten für eine integrierte Risikobewertung, als Entscheidungshilfe für Anpassung an den Klimawandel. Konkret konzentrierte sich die Bestandsaufnahme auf eine kritische Diskussion wichtiger...