“Central banks and supervisors also need to consider nature-related risks and biodiversity loss,” urged Sabine Mauderer, member of the Bundesbank’s Executive Board, in her opening speech at this year’s Bundesbank Spring Conference. “Because there will be no stable climate without a healthy natural world – and vice versa.” President Joachim Nagel used his welcome address at the “Central Banks and Climate Change” research conference to stress that “by pursuing price stability, the Eurosystem is supporting the green transition”.

At the European level, sources of law are the regulations, which are directly applicable in all member states, and the directives, which have to be transposed into national law.

Die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) hat gegen die Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE eine Verwaltungsgeldbuße von 6,63 Mio. € verhängt. Grund hierfür war die Meldung von falsch berechneten risikogewichteten Aktiva für das Kreditrisiko.