We ask if bank supervisors’ efforts to combat climate change affect banks' lending and their borrowers’ transition to the carbon-neutral economy. Combining information from the French supervisory agency’s climate pilot exercise with borrowers' emission data, we first show that banks that...

Reducing the impact of climate change on poor and vulnerable householdsis essential to hastening poverty reduction. In thinking about policies thatdo this, it is useful to apply the same hazard, exposure and vulnerabilityframework that is often used to understand the physical impacts of...

Reducing the impact of climate change on poor and vulnerable households is essential to hastening poverty reduction. In thinking about policies that do this, it is useful to apply the same hazard, exposure and vulnerability framework that is often used to understand the physical impacts of...