Fighting climate change is one of the biggest challenges in the 21st century. Climate change that leads to global warming has been increasingly visible in our environment. Extreme weather conditions such as hurricanes, floods, and droughts have been escalating and their acceleration can be...

We study whether floods can affect financial stability through a credit risk channel. Our focus is on the Netherlands, a country situated partly below sea level, where insurance policies exclude property damages caused by some types of floods. Using geocoded data for close to EUR 650 billion in...

In 2009, the promise of a comprehensive federal cap and trade bill to address climate change fell apart. At least in part, this was due to the fears that exotic 'carbon' financial instruments might cause more financial crises. As California launches it economy wide carbon trading system, and...

Using a stock-flow-fund ecological macroeconomic model, we analyse (i) the effects of climate change on financial stability and (ii) the financial and global warming implications of a green quantitative easing (QE) programme. Emphasis is placed on the impact of climate change damages on the...

Climate change could impose systemic risks upon the financial sector, either via disruptions in economic activity resulting from the physical impacts of climate change or changes in policies as the economy transitions to a less carbon-intensive environment. We develop a stress testing procedure...

There is increasing concern among financial regulators that changes in the distribution and frequency of extreme weather events induced by climate change could pose a threat to global financial stability. In order to assess this risk, we develop a simple model of the propagation of...

This paper studies how a climate shock is transmitted through the financial system. Our empirical strategy combines data on climate and banking with El Niño, a natural experiment producing quasi-random variation in US climate. El Niño generates heterogeneous changes in lending across counties,...

The outbreak of COVID-19 resulted in a serious economic contraction. The design of economic recovery packages could impact countries’ trajectories towards a sustainable low-carbon economy. This paper investigates the impacts of green recovery packages on the climate, i.e., mitigation...

Nowadays climate change and global warming tend to be considered primarily through the lens of environmental degradation and increased frequency of natural calamities. Meanwhile, it is pivotal to note that the implications of this process are reaching far beyond these trends, affecting the...