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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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21 PUBLICATIONS

Joint statement

08/12/2022

Sustainable Finance

Joint Statement calling for a robust and ambitious Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)

Finance Watch, along with members of the Informal Group on Sustainable Finance calls for stronger requirements on transition plans, directors’ remuneration and oversight and due diligence for the financial sector in the...
Open letter

10/11/2022

Sustainable Finance

Open letter calling on the G20 for a #SafeTransition

In an open letter signed by more than 60 organisations, Finance Watch and partners called on the G20 leaders to recognise fossil fuel exposures of banks as ‘higher risk assets’ under the...
Report

03/10/2022

Sustainable Finance

Report – A safer transition for fossil banking: Quantifying capital needed to reflect transition risk

New research shows the world’s 60 biggest banks have $1.35 trillion USD of exposures to fossil fuel assets. Capital increase needed to reflect risk is equivalent to 3-5 months of bank profits.
Report

22/09/2022

Sustainable Finance

Report – Financing Local Green Enterprises. Closing the funding gap for sustainable MSMEs in developing countries

Finance Watch and Green Economy Coalition have compiled the findings of seven case studies conducted in developing and emerging countries, in order to make a series of recommendations (economic and financial reforms)...
Consultation response

11/08/2022

Sustainable Finance

Feedback on the EFRAG exposure drafts on the European Sustainability Reporting Standards
Open letter

09/08/2022

Sustainable Finance

Letter to the ISSB on its proposals for International Sustainability Reporting Standards

In its letter to the ISSB on the exposure drafts for international financial reporting standards on sustainability and climate-related disclosures, Finance Watch emphasises that a fundamental change in the outside-in only approach...
Consultation response

04/08/2022

Sustainable Finance

Response to the EBA Discussion Paper on Environmental Risks in the Prudential Framework
Open letter

07/07/2022

Sustainable Finance

Open letter: banks and insurers must account for climate risk

In the open letter below, sent to policymakers in the European Parliament, Finance Watch and 13 partners call to include mandatory transition plans and capital requirements for climate-related risks in their review...
Consultation response

07/07/2022

Sustainable Finance

Response to the FSB Consultation on Supervisory and Regulatory Approaches to Climate-related Risks
Report

30/06/2022

Sustainable Finance

Report – The Problem Lies in the Net: Making Finance contribute to a Net Zero Economy

In a report published on June 22, Finance Watch proposes concrete policy measures to make the concept of “net-zero” meaningful, drive progress to net-zero in the real world and harness the stewardship...
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Sustainable Finance

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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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