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EU Banking Regulator Releases Proposed Requirements for Banks to Manage ESG, Climate Transition Risks
Mark Segal
January 19, 2024
EU banking supervisor The European Banking Authority (EBA) announced the launch of a consultation on new proposed guidelines, setting out requirements for banks to identify, measure, manage and monitor ESG risks, including setting plans to address risks arising from the EU’s transition to a climate-neutral economy.
Requirements for banks under the proposed guidelines would include undertaking regular materiality assessments of ESG risks, ensuring the ability to identify risks through data processes and methodologies including exposure-based, portfolio-based and scenario-based approaches, and the integration of ESG risks in their regular risk management frameworks, with considerations of impact across risk categories including credit, market, operational, reputational, liquidity, business model, and concentration risks, across short-, medium-, and long-term time horizons.
The guidelines would also require institutions to develop Capital Requirement Directive-based (CRD) transition plans addressing risks arising from the climate transition and financial risks stemming from ESG factors and regulatory objectives.
According to the EBA, the new guidelines were developed in line with the regulator’s roadmap on sustainable finance. Launched in late 2022, the roadmap sets out the EBA’s priorities and plans in the areas of sustainable finance and in supporting and monitoring the integration of ESG risk considerations in the banking framework, through key objectives that include risk management and supervision, treatment of exposures, and ESG risk and sustainable finance monitoring.
Explaining the rationale behind the new guidelines, the EBA noted that despite actions taken over the past few years to manage the impacts of ESG factors, “several shortcomings have been observed in the inclusion of ESG risks in business strategies and risk management frameworks,” which the regulator said could “pose challenges to the safety and soundness of institutions as the EU transitions towards a more sustainable economy and ESG risks become increasingly substantiated or materialize.”
The guidelines also note a different approach relative to other sustainability-focused regulation such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the proposed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), which focus on the compatibility of business models with the EU’s climate and sustainability objectives, while the EBA’s proposals focus instead on ensuring ESG risks are assessed and embedded in strategies and policies, rather than requiring banks to align with specific sustainability goals or transition pathways.
While specifying that the goal of setting up prudential plans “is not to force institutions to exit or divest from carbon intensive sectors,” the guidelines do aim to “stimulate institutions to proactively reflect on technological, business and behavioral changes driven by the sustainable transition,” including focusing on the related risks and opportunities, transition planning and engagement.
Click here to access the draft guidelines. The EBA consultation is scheduled to run until April 18.
Mark founded ESG Today following a 20 year career in investment management and research. Prior to founding ESG Today, Mark worked at Delaney Capital Management (DCM) in Toronto, Canada, most recently as the firm’s head of U.S. equities. While at DCM, Mark was part of the firm’s ESG team, responsible for evaluating and tracking the sustainability factors impacting portfolio companies, and assessing the suitability of companies for portfolio inclusion. Mark also spent several years in the sell-side research industry, covering the technology and services sectors. Mark holds an MBA from Columbia University in New York, a BBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, and is a CFA charterholder.
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