The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision finalized guidelines for supervising and managing the risks climate change pose to banks. While capital requirements aren’t included, U.S. regulators are directed to play a hands-on role in assessing banks’ preparedness.
A report from the Roosevelt Institute published Monday urges Biden’s bank regulators to address climate risks through supervisory guidance, a move unlikely to garner support from banks.
WASHINGTON, May 25 Public Citizen issued the following joint news release and letter on May 24, 2022:. Recent changes in Connecticut law recognize that climate change poses a unique risk to insurance companies and vulnerable communities and that management of that risk, particularly through reducing insured and financed emissions, is key to protecting.
Federal financial agencies’ role in combating climate change has become a politically polarized topic, as the withdrawal of Fed nominee Sarah Bloom Raskin shows. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and other regulators could make changes to exam procedures and take other steps that don’t require congressional cooperation.
Saule Omarova, whose nomination is in trouble partly due to progressives’ botched defense, could be appointed as first deputy and run the OCC in an acting capacity.