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Green Central Banking publishes the latest news, research and policy proposals on central banking and climate change.

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#GreenCentralBanking roundup:

🇺🇸 Comptroller urges NYC pension boards to drop BlackRock over climate record
🇪🇺 EIOPA proposes EU-wide natural catastrophe risk tool
✅ NGFS publishes updated scenario analysis guidance

And more 👇

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Roundup: NYC pension funds should exit BlackRock over climate failures, says comptroller
Exiting New York comptroller says city's pension funds should divest from BlackRock, EU proposes catastrophe risk tool for homeowners, and the NGFS updates its climate scenarios.
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December 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🎙️ @greencb.bsky.social spoke with Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva - former @bis.org deputy - on adapting climate scenarios to fiscal policy.

He warns that while #TippingPoint must be considered, traditional economic tools aren’t built for these climate “non-linearities.”

https://greencb.co/4p2vRiZ
December 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🧵 The first edition of the scorecard by @greencb.bsky.social & @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social assesses how central banks in East & Southeast Asia are responding to the #ClimateCrisis.

It covers ASEAN+3 economies — incl China 🇨🇳, Japan 🇯🇵 & South Korea 🇰🇷

Green Central Banking Scorecard
The Green Central Banking Scorecard, produced by Positive Money, scores and ranks the full range of green policies and initiatives adopted by G20 central
greencentralbanking.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🇦🇺 Australia is significantly underinvesting in climate adaptation, says the Actuaries Institute.

Natural disasters already cost A$38bn a year — rising to at least A$73bn by 2060. 📈💰

Australia should expand taxonomy to include climate adaptation, actuaries say
Clear criteria are essential to unlock private investment in adaptation to protect homes and businesses from wildfires, droughts and floods.
greencb.co
December 9, 2025 at 7:31 AM
🇺🇸 A US appeals court has paused California’s landmark #ClimateRisk disclosure law — SB 261 — which requires companies to report the risks of climate change, writes @moriahcosta.bsky.social. 👇

While the state’s emissions-reporting law (SB 253) remains in place.

US appeals court pauses California’s disclosure rules
The ninth circuit court of appeals paused a rule requiring large companies operating in California to report on business risk from climate change.
greencb.co
December 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
November’s top 5 @greencb.bsky.social stories — see what you missed last month:

📰 European Parliament slashes sustainable reporting requirements

MEPs rolled back key parts of the EU’s corporate sustainability framework, weakening both #CSRD and #CSDDD.
EU omnibus: MEPs vote to slash sustainable reporting requirements
EU parliament votes to cut requirements for green reporting and transition plans aligned with the Paris Agreement.
greencb.co
December 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🇦🇺 Australia is significantly underinvesting in climate adaptation, says the Actuaries Institute.

Natural disasters already cost A$38bn a year — rising to at least A$73bn by 2060. 📈💰

Australia should expand taxonomy to include climate adaptation, actuaries say
Clear criteria are essential to unlock private investment in adaptation to protect homes and businesses from wildfires, droughts and floods.
greencb.co
December 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
📚 @climateandcap.bsky.social’s best climate books of 2025 are perfect for the holiday wind-down. ✨👇
As the dust settles on another less-than-satisfying #COP in Brazil, the C&C team with @blairpalese.bsky.social is back with our bi-annual list of the best climate books to give or to dive into over the holiday downtime. 👇

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The best climate books to give and read over the holidays
Fiction and nonfiction picks (some quite uplifting) for closing out 2025
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🇺🇸 A US appeals court has paused California’s landmark #ClimateRisk disclosure law — SB 261 — which requires companies to report the risks of climate change, writes @moriahcosta.bsky.social. 👇

While the state’s emissions-reporting law (SB 253) remains in place.

US appeals court pauses California’s disclosure rules
The ninth circuit court of appeals paused a rule requiring large companies operating in California to report on business risk from climate change.
greencb.co
December 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🇦🇺 Australia is significantly underinvesting in climate adaptation, says the Actuaries Institute.

Natural disasters already cost A$38bn a year — rising to at least A$73bn by 2060. 📈💰

Australia should expand taxonomy to include climate adaptation, actuaries say
Clear criteria are essential to unlock private investment in adaptation to protect homes and businesses from wildfires, droughts and floods.
greencb.co
December 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🇦🇺 Australia is significantly underinvesting in climate adaptation, says the Actuaries Institute.

Natural disasters already cost A$38bn a year — rising to at least A$73bn by 2060. 📈💰

Australia should expand taxonomy to include climate adaptation, actuaries say
Clear criteria are essential to unlock private investment in adaptation to protect homes and businesses from wildfires, droughts and floods.
greencb.co
December 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🇺🇸 A US appeals court has paused California’s landmark #ClimateRisk disclosure law — SB 261 — which requires companies to report the risks of climate change, writes @moriahcosta.bsky.social. 👇

While the state’s emissions-reporting law (SB 253) remains in place.

US appeals court pauses California’s disclosure rules
The ninth circuit court of appeals paused a rule requiring large companies operating in California to report on business risk from climate change.
greencb.co
December 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🎙️ @greencb.bsky.social spoke with Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva - former @bis.org deputy - on adapting climate scenarios to fiscal policy.

He warns that while #TippingPoint must be considered, traditional economic tools aren’t built for these climate “non-linearities.”

https://greencb.co/4p2vRiZ
December 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🇪🇺 “Climate risk is a permanent shock heading in one direction only, with serious long-term effects on house prices and other asset values,” says the @ecb.europa.eu in its supervisory priorities for the next three years.

Global risk of shocks is unprecedentedly high, warns ECB
European Central Bank says banks must be vigilant as geopolitics, climate, demographics and technology exacerbate structural economic problems.
greencb.co
December 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🇺🇸 A US appeals court has paused California’s landmark #ClimateRisk disclosure law — SB 261 — which requires companies to report the risks of climate change, writes @moriahcosta.bsky.social. 👇

While the state’s emissions-reporting law (SB 253) remains in place.

US appeals court pauses California’s disclosure rules
The ninth circuit court of appeals paused a rule requiring large companies operating in California to report on business risk from climate change.
greencb.co
December 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🇦🇺 Australia is significantly underinvesting in climate adaptation, says the Actuaries Institute.

Natural disasters already cost A$38bn a year — rising to at least A$73bn by 2060. 📈💰

Australia should expand taxonomy to include climate adaptation, actuaries say
Clear criteria are essential to unlock private investment in adaptation to protect homes and businesses from wildfires, droughts and floods.
greencb.co
December 3, 2025 at 10:03 AM
G20 countries should support efforts to reduce the dominance of the dollar in the global economy and promote the use of local currencies for trade and finance to reduce systemic risk, according to a group of thinktanks.

G20 should support de-dollarisation of global economy, say experts
Thinktanks from G20 countries say reducing reliance on dollar could limit risks and support green transition.
greencb.co
December 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
In the latest edition of The Dispatch:
🌳 Forest loss could trigger shocks worse than 2008
🏦 Researchers propose G-SINS: systemically important natural systems
🌍 COP30 recap, G20 dollar reform push
🌦️ Africa’s climate insurance gap widens

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greencb.co
December 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Green Central Banking’s @moriahcosta.bsky.social and @ingridwss.bsky.social round up developments from #Cop30 including:

📈 Adaptation finance to triple by 2035
💵 Loss and damage fund launches
🌳 $6.6bn in funding for Brazil’s Tropical Forest Forever Facility

Cop30: deep division on core issues, but progress on climate and adaptation finance
Despite the absence of plans to end deforestation and fossil fuels, Cop30 saw some progress on finance for climate adaptation and a just transition.
greencb.co
December 2, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Finance ministers need to adapt to the growing threats from climate change, and could learn from the climate scenarios of central banks, former @bis.org head Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva told @greencb.bsky.social.

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Finance ministers can learn from central bank climate scenarios, says former BIS head
Central bank climate scenarios could help finance ministers understand how to adapt to climate stress, former BIS head Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva told Green Central Banking.
greencb.co
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🇪🇺 “Climate risk is a permanent shock heading in one direction only, with serious long-term effects on house prices and other asset values,” says the @ecb.europa.eu in its supervisory priorities for the next three years.

greencb.co/4rnJCdu
Global risk of shocks is unprecedentedly high, warns ECB
European Central Bank says banks must be vigilant as geopolitics, climate, demographics and technology exacerbate structural economic problems.
greencb.co
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Green Central Banking’s @moriahcosta.bsky.social and @ingridwss.bsky.social round up developments from #Cop30 including:

📈 Adaptation finance to triple by 2035
💵 Loss and damage fund launches
🌳 $6.6bn in funding for Brazil’s Tropical Forest Forever Facility

greencb.co/3LUOjvl
Cop30: deep division on core issues, but progress on climate and adaptation finance
Despite the absence of plans to end deforestation and fossil fuels, Cop30 saw some progress on finance for climate adaptation and a just transition.
greencb.co
November 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Finance ministers need to adapt to the growing threats from climate change, and could learn from the climate scenarios of central banks, former @bis.org head Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva told @greencb.bsky.social.

greencb.co/4p2vRiZ
Finance ministers can learn from central bank climate scenarios, says former BIS head
Central bank climate scenarios could help finance ministers understand how to adapt to climate stress, former BIS head Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva told Green Central Banking.
greencb.co
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
G20 countries should support efforts to reduce the dominance of the dollar in the global economy and promote the use of local currencies for trade and finance to reduce systemic risk, according to a group of thinktanks.

greencb.co/3LVsQlU
G20 should support de-dollarisation of global economy, say experts
Thinktanks from G20 countries say reducing reliance on dollar could limit risks and support green transition.
greencb.co
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Africa loses 2-5% of GDP annually to climate impacts but insurance covers under 0.5% of losses.

WAICA delegates say the protection gap is widening, esp in agriculture, where fewer than 3% of farmers are insured, writes Cecilia Schultz of @krutham.bsky.social

Climate risk forces African insurers to rethink their role
Climate change is compunding the challenges faced by African insurance companies who must innovate to close the protection gap, says Cecilia Schultz of financial consultants Krutham.
greencb.co
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM