Policy portal Sustainable finance

Our planet must remain livable and the financial industry plays a key role in securing its future: financial flows must be re-oriented from environmentally harmful activities to a sustainable economy.

Financial regulation, alongside other policies, should ensure private finance becomes an enabler of sustainable transition. This requires:

  • Transparency and corporate governance reforms to ensure real-world outcomes and prevent greenwashing.
  • Robust risk management and adequate capital levels of financial institutions to make them resilient, ensure a “safe transition” and avoid a climate-driven financial crisis.
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20 PUBLICATIONS

Report

Report – A trillion dollars of climate risk: the case for a systemic risk buffer

Position paper

A prudent approach to climate risk

Evidence-based metrics and prudent capital requirement tools to strengthen bank supervision for transition and physical risks
Position paper

Strengthening corporate governance rules for sound risk management practices

Recommendations for revising the EBA guidelines on sound remuneration policies
Position paper

A transition plan barometer for banks

Benchmarking CSRD reporting in the financial sector
Position paper

Securitisation and capital requirements for European insurers – Part II

Balancing prudential treatment and policy objectives: why the proposed recalibration of Solvency II would increase risk
Report

Report – Breaking the spiral of uninsurable climate losses

As climate impacts intensify, Europe’s insurance coverage is shrinking, leaving taxpayers and businesses to bear rising losses beyond what reinsurance or mutual schemes can handle. This report shows how conditionality, public directionality,...
Joint statement

Consumers need an ambitious Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation to gain trust in the Savings and Investment Union – Open Letter

In a joint letter signed by leading civil society organisations, Finance Watch calls on the European Commission to strengthen the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and restore public trust in sustainable investing.
Consultation response

Enhancing ESG stress tests for credible compound and systemic risk management

Joint statement

There is no room for fossil fuel developers in any sustainable finance categories – Open Letter

In a joint letter signed by 92 organisations and 32 academics and experts, Finance Watch calls on the European Commission to respond to the expectations of EU citizens, retail investors, civil society,...
Consultation response

Finance Watch response to revised European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)

Consultation response

Improving EBA’s Pillar III disclosures on ESG risk exposure – EBA consultation

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