The turn of the year saw Executive Board member Sabine Mauderer take office as Chair of the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), a global group of central banks and supervisory authorities committed to forging a more sustainable financial system. The NGFS’s mission is to analyse what climate change and nature loss mean for the financial system

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Kann die Geldpolitik die Ungleichheit bei Einkommen und Vermögen verringern? Welche Rolle können Notenbanken bei der Bewältigung des Klimawandels spielen? Und wie kann die Bundesbank junge Menschen besser erreichen? Bei der digitalen Ausgabe von Euro20+ beantwortete Bundesbankpräsident Jens Weidmann viele durchaus kritische Fragen der über 100 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer.

The Bundesbank’s economists have examined how climate action affects the value of stock corporations. The outcome under the assumptions made was that a large proportion of the corporations under review did not suffer major equity price losses as a consequence of their direct greenhouse gas emissions, even for a sharp rise in carbon prices. By contrast, shares in companies whose greenhouse gas emissions cause them high costs in relation to their dividends suffer large losses. Stock corporations whose business centres around fossil energy sources are hardest hit.

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Video of the speech given by Bundesbank Board Member Dr Sabine Mauderer at the "ICMA and JSDA Annual Green & Social Bonds Conference" on 13 November 2020.

Bundesbank Executive Board member Sabine Mauderer has warned of the enormous costs that climate change will cause for the economies and societies. "More public and private money needs to flow into research and development, fostering climate-friendly innovation," Mauderer demanded at a conference.

The NGFS released a report entitled “Adapting central bank operations to a hotter world: Reviewing some options” which assesses nine options available to central banks to factor climate-related risks into their operational framework. Sabine Mauderer, Chair of the NGFS’ “Scaling-up green finance” workstream and executive board member of the Deutsche Bundesbank: “Central banks ought to be aware of climate risks for the integrity of their balance sheets. Even more so, they should get ready to respond to such risks swiftly and with determination. Our report is a great blueprint to support central banks in making strategic choices on how to reflect climate risk in their monetary policy operations.”