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How to reduce Risks of Climate Change as a Bank
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How to reduce Risks of Climate Change as a Bank

Risk assessment and risk management for banking

The scope and technical sophistication of our Location Risk Intelligence Platform provides the most comprehensive risk management solution for analysing the financial impact of physical events resulting from natural disasters and climate change.  

It allows you to forecast how a portfolio of assets may be financially impacted by climate change risks and natural hazards. What variety of risks it will be exposed to, together with the location and concentration of these risks, and how these risks may change over time under different CO2 emission scenarios.

Four main drivers to assess the financial impact of climate change risks:

The guideline includes recommendations for banks and asset managers for actively managing the climate financial impact across their business
Shifting from voluntary TCFD reporting to mandatory vulnerability or stress tests
Climate change risks are business risks. Consider both your current portfolio and at the point of origination
Pressure from customers, investors, press, public image and social pressure
210bn US$ losses in 2020 alone
Climate change risks are already seriously affecting the finance industry

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How you benefit as a manager in the finance industry

Clearly define your climate change risk appetite
With the easy-to-use analysis tool for single locations, a portfolio or multiple portfolios you can optimise your investment by evaluating your risk profile based on climate change risks and the financial impact.

Quantify your risk appetite better, because you can identify and visualise risk hotspots.
Meet all regulatory requirements with minimal effort
Assessing, managing and disclosing the financial risks associated with climate change. Providing financial reporting and transparency of risks to shareholders and regulators.

Build your TCFD report for physical climate change risks.
Identify the financial impact of climate change risks
Climate change risk identification is a key component in the long-term financing of infrastructure and industrial projects.

Evaluate the financial impact of the climate change risks of your infrastructure projects as part of the due-diligence process, enabling you to take informed decisions for debt or equity investments.

 

   

standard chartered
We are pleased to collaborate with Munich Re for climate-related physical risk assessments. Such exchange of knowledge and ideas between the banking and insurance sectors is a prime example of how industries can work together to combat climate change and financial risks arising from it.
Mark Smith
Group Chief Risk Officer
Standard Chartered

 

 

Our Solution Offering at a Glance

Screen Climate
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  • Covers a comprehensive set of 12 current and 7 future climate hazards for physical climate change risk identification that includes tropical cyclone, river flood, sea level rise, precipitation, drought, fire weather stress and heat stress
  • Financial Impact Score included
  • Future climate hazards are built on IPCC’s proposed RCP scenarios (2.6, 4.5 and 8.5)
  • Time horizons - (current scenario, 2030, 2050, 2100 and further shorter ones planned)
  • Scoring system is designed to generate scores as index (0-10) as well as a traffic light approach (low, medium, high etc.)
  • Single location, portfolio and multiple portfolio analysis functionalities
  • High resolution of up to 30m for individual risk types
  • API and log-on versions available for different use cases
  • The web version of the solution is built on GIS and is used for detail visualization purposes to assess climate and natural hazard risk

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