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Climate riskSeptember 23 2022

Lending in a landscape of uncoordinated climate policies

With the stringency of climate policy varying from one country to the next, how are banks taking advantage of this lack of coordination? Research and analysis by Emanuela Benincasa, Gazi Kabaş and Steven Ongena.
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As climate change threatens the human way of life, banks share the responsibility to drive investments to support a climate-resilient economy. Green financing through bank lending is crucial to re-engineer firms’ business models towards climate-friendly production processes.

One important yet often neglected challenge that green financing faces is the differences between countries’ climate policies. While some countries have been pursuing a low-carbon economy, others are not so eager. 

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