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Our planet must remain livable and the financial industry plays a key role in securing its future: financial flows must be re-oriented from environmentally harmful activities to a sustainable economy.

Financial regulation, alongside other policies, should ensure private finance becomes an enabler of sustainable transition. This requires:

  • Transparency and corporate governance reforms to ensure real-world outcomes and prevent greenwashing.
  • Robust risk management and adequate capital levels of financial institutions to make them resilient, ensure a “safe transition” and avoid a climate-driven financial crisis.
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113 PUBLICATIONS

Joint statement

02/03/2022

Sustainable Finance

Multi-stakeholder letter calling to broaden the scope of the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive

In the multi-stakeholder letter below, sent to Members of the European Parliament, Finance Watch calls for broadening the scope of the companies to be covered by the new CSRD rules by including...
Consultation response

16/02/2022

Sustainable Finance

BCBS Consultation response on the principles to effectively manage and supervise climate-related financial risks
Consultation response

10/02/2022

Sustainable Finance

Consultation response for EIOPA: climate change materiality assessments and scenarios in ORSAs
Joint statement

01/02/2022

Sustainable Finance

Joint Statement- NGOs express deep concerns on the upcoming Sustainable Corporate Governance initiative

Finance Watch co-signed today a joint letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Vice-President Věra Jourová expressing deep concerns that reforms of directors’ duties, mandatory corporate sustainability targets and...
Open letter

18/01/2022

Sustainable Finance

Multi-stakeholder statement on the CSRD reform and EU standards

Investors, asset managers and civil society organisations jointly call for: Reaching agreement promptly in order to support swift implementation. Maintaining the double materiality concept to achieve EU-specific policy objectives, and demonstrating EU leadership...
Open letter

20/12/2021

Sustainable Finance

Open Letter: Risking Effective Sustainable Corporate Governance

Finance Watch co-signed on 20 December 2021 with seven other organisations an open letter addressed to European Commission officials to express strong concerns about the delay in the publication of the legislative...
Open letter

17/12/2021

Sustainable Finance

Finance Watch letter to the European Commission on sustainable corporate governance

In a letter dated 15 December 2021 and addressed to Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, Vice-Presidents Jourová and Šefčovič, and Commissioners Reynders and Breton, Finance Watch expressed its concerns over the future and level...
Report

23/11/2021

Sustainable Finance

Report: A ‘silver bullet’ against Green Swans – Incorporating climate risk into prudential rules

Simple measures taken now can sever climate change-financial instability link, says a new report “A silver bullet against green swans: Incorporating climate-related financial risk into bank and insurance prudential rules”.
Consultation response

16/11/2021

Sustainable Finance

Insurance Sector and Climate-Related Financial Risks: Response to the FIO
Report

08/07/2021

Sustainable Finance

Report – Insuring the uninsurable: Tackling the link between climate change and financial instability in the insurance sector

A Finance Watch report on how to tackle the link between climate change and financial instability in the insurance sector.
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20.06.2025

How the Omnibus proposal sets the foundation for a deregulation agenda

Sustainable Finance

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Climate risk and insurance: a small step forward, but is it enough?

Sustainable Finance

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25.03.2025

Unprepared, the financial system will triple people’s bills for climate change
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