Network for Greening the Financial System
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| Abbreviation | NGFS |
|---|---|
| Formation | December 2017 |
| Location |
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Chair | Ravi Menon |
Head of Secretariat | Jean Boissinot |
| Website | https://www.ngfs.net/ |
The Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) is a network of 114 central banks and financial supervisors[1][2] that aims to accelerate the scaling up of green finance and develop recommendations for central banks' role for climate change. The NGFS was created in 2017 and its secretariat is hosted by the Banque de France. Its current chair is Ravi Menon, Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore.[3] The NGFS has been awarded best green initiative of the year 2020 by Centralbanking.com.[4]
According to its charter,[5] the purpose of the NGFS is "to define, promote and contribute to the development of best practices to be implemented within and outside of the Membership of the NGFS and to conduct or commission analytical work on green finance."
The NGFS was announced at the Paris “One Planet Summit” in December 2017. The network was launched by 8 founding central banks,[6] under the leadership of Banque de France's governor François Villeroy de Galhau, the Dutch Central Bank's Frank Elderson and the Bank of England's former governor Mark Carney.[7]
Work and activities[edit]
The NGFS organises events and research on climate change.
Recommendations for central banks and supervisory authorities[edit]
In 2021, the NGFS identified 9 policy options that could be chosen by central banks to align their monetary policy with climate objectives.[8]
The NGFS work is currently organised around 4 workstreams (WS) and 2 task forces (TF):
- WS “Supervision”, chaired by Mr Tolga Yalkin from the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions
- WS “Scenario Design and Analysis”, chaired by Mr Livio Stracca from the European Central Bank
- WS “Monetary Policy”, chaired by Mr James Talbot from the Bank of England
- WS “Net Zero for Central Banks”, co-chaired by Mr Paolo Angelini from the Bank of Italy and Ms Simone Robbers from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand
- TF “Nature-Related Risks”, co-chaired by Ms Emmanuelle Assouan from the Bank of France and Ms Saskia de Vries from De Nederlandsche Bank
- TF “Capacity Building and Training”, co-chaired by Ms Madelena Mohamed from the Central Bank of Malaysia and Mr Jeffery Yong from the Bank for International Settlements
Climate scenarios[edit]
In June 2020, the NGFS presented its climate scenarios as a common baseline for analysing climate risks to the economy and the financial system. Expanded and updated data were published in the two subsequent years. The scenarios are based on the three integrated assessment models REMIND-MAgPIE (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), GCAM (University of Maryland) and MESSAGEix-GLOBIOM (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis). Their results were fed into the NiGEM model (National Institute of Economic and Social Research) to conduct further macroeconomic analyses on inflation or unemployment. In addition, climate data provided by Climate Analytics and the ETH Zurich are published.[9] [10] [11][12][13]
The following six scenarios were examined: "Current Policies" considers only already implemented climate policies, while "NDCs" assumes that the voluntary pledges of Nationally Determined Contributions are met. "Below 2°C" assumes that a two-degree target in line with the Paris Agreement will be met, while "Net Zero 2050" assumes a 1.5-degree target will be achieved through early, globally coordinated climate policies. "Delayed Transition" assumes tighter climate policies only from 2030, while "Divergent Net Zero" envisages regionally and sectorally different climate adaptation.[11]
Governance and membership[edit]
Today the NGFS comprises 75 members and 13 observers.[14]
| Name | Membership | Join date |
|---|---|---|
| Banque de France and ACPR | Permanent member | 2017 |
| Bank of England | Permanent member | 2017 |
| De Nederlandsche Bank | Permanent member | 2017 |
| Austrian Financial Market Authority | ||
| Banco Central de Costa Rica | 2019 | |
| Banca d’Italia | ||
| Banco de México | Permanent member | |
| Banco de España | 2018 | |
| Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia) | 2019 | |
| Banco de Portugal | 2018 | |
| Bank Al-Maghrib | 2018 | |
| Bank Indonesia | 2019 | |
| Bank Negara Malaysia (Central Bank of Malaysia) | 2018 | |
| Bank of Canada | ||
| Bank of Finland | 2018 | |
| Bank of Greece | ||
| Bank of Israel | ||
| Bank of Japan | 2019 | |
| Bank of Korea | 2019 | |
| Bank of Mauritius | 2020 | |
| Bank of Slovenia | ||
| Bank of Thailand | 2019 | |
| Banque Centrale de Tunisie | 2019 | |
| Banque centrale du Luxembourg | 2018 | |
| Bank of Estonia | 2020 | |
| Bank of Latvia | 2020 | |
| Bank of Lithuania | 2020 | |
| Bank of Russia | 2019 | |
| Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas | 2020 | |
| Central Bank of Brazil | 2020 | |
| Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) | Permanent member | 2017 |
| Bank of Mauritius | ||
| Central Bank of Armenia | 2020 | |
| Central Bank of Cyprus | 2020 | |
| Central Bank of Hungary | ||
| Central Bank of Malta | ||
| Central Bank of Seychelles | ||
| Central Bank of West African States | 2020 | |
| Comision Nacional Bancaria y de Valores | 2019 | |
| Comisión para el Mercado Financiero de Chile | 2019 | |
| Commission de contrôle des activités financières (Monaco) | ||
| Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (Luxembourg) | ||
| Danish Financial Supervisory Authority | 2020 | |
| Danmarks Nationalbank | ||
| Department of Financial Services (DFS) of the State of New York | 2019 | |
| Deutsche Bundesbank | Permanent member | 2017 |
| Dubai Financial Services Authority | ||
| European Banking Authority (EBA) | 2018 | |
| European Central Bank (ECB) | Permanent member | 2018 |
| European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) | ||
| Federal Reserve Bank of the United States | Permanent member | 2020 |
| Finansinspektionen (Swedish FSA) | Permanent member | 2017 |
| Finanstilsynet (Norwegian FSA) | ||
| Guernsey Financial Services Commission | 2019 | |
| Isle of Man Financial Services Authority | 2020 | |
| Istituto per la Vigilanza sulle Assicurazioni (IVASS) | ||
| Hong Kong Monetary Authority | Founding member | 2017 |
| Japan FSA | 2018 | |
| Malta Financial Services Authority | 2020 | |
| Monetary Authority of Singapore | Permanent member | 2017 |
| Národná banka Slovenska | 2019 | |
| National Bank of Belgium | 2018 | |
| National Bank of Cambodia | 2020 | |
| National Bank of Georgia | 2020 | |
| National Bank of Romania | ||
| Norges Bank | 2018 | |
| Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) | 2018 | |
| People's Bank of China | Permanent member | 2017 |
| Reserve Bank of Australia | 2018 | |
| Reserve Bank of New Zealand | 2018 | |
| South African Reserve Bank | ||
| Superintendencia Financiera De Colombia | ||
| Sveriges Riksbank | 2018 | |
| Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) | ||
| Swiss National Bank | ||
| Asian Development Bank | Observer | |
| Bank for International Settlement | Observer | 2018 |
| Basel Committee on Banking Supervision | Observer | |
| European Bank for Reconstruction and Development | Observer | 2018 |
| International Organization of Securities COmmission (IOSCO) | Observer | 2019 |
| European Investment Bank | Observer | |
| IDB (Inter-American Development Bank) | Observer | 2019 |
| International Association of Insurance Supervisors | Observer | |
| International Monetary Fund | Observer | 2019 |
| NIB (Nordic Investment bank) | Observer | |
| Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) | Observer | 2018 |
| Sustainable Insurance Forum | Observer | 2018 |
| World Bank and the International Finance Corporation | Observer | 2018 |
| Reserve Bank of India | Member | 2021[15] |
| National Bank of Serbia | Member | 2021[16] |
References[edit]
- ^ "Membership List of Central Banks and Supervisors". Network for Greening the Financial System website. NGFS. 13 April 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ "Lawsuits aimed at greenhouse-gas emissions are a growing trend". The Economist (registration or subscription to read). 23 April 2022. p. 54, column 3, paragraph 3. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
The Network for Greening the Financial System, a group of 114 central banks and financial regulators, deems climate litigation to be a "growing source of risk" above and beyond the legal fees and potential damages to be paid to plaintiffs.
- ^ "NGFS announces the appointment of new Chair and Vice Chair, and the expansion of its Steering Committee with two new members". NGFS. 17 January 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
- ^ "Green initiative: Network for Greening the Financial System". Central Banking. 4 February 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
- ^ "Charter of the Central Banks and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System" (PDF). www.ngfs.net. 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
- ^ "Members of Central Bank and Supervisors Network for Greening theFinancial System" (PDF). www.ngfs.net. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
- ^ "The financial sector must be at the heart of tackling climate change". the Guardian. 17 April 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
- ^ "Adapting central bank operations to a hotter world: Reviewing some options". NGFS. 24 March 2021. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
- ^ NGFS (ed): NGFS Climate Scenarios for central banks and supervisors. September 2022 (PDF, 2,6 MB).
- ^ NGFS Scenarios Portal. www.ngfs.net. Accessed October 8, 2022.
- ^ a b Oliver Richters et al.: NGFS Climate Scenario Database: Technical Documentation V3.1, 2022.
- ^ Stefano Battiston, Yannis Dafermos, Irene Monasterolo: Climate risks and financial stability. In: Journal of Financial Stability, 54, 2021, 100867, doi:10.1016/j.jfs.2021.100867.
- ^ Paul Langley, John H Morris: Central banks: Climate governors of last resort? In: EPA: Economy and Space, 52(8), 2020, p. 1471–1479 doi:10.1177/0308518X20951809.
- ^ "Members" (PDF). www.ngfs.net. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
- ^ "Reserve Bank of India - Press Releases".
- ^ "ВЕЛИКИ УСПЕХ: Народна банка Србије на свој 137. рођендан постала део угледне мреже за "зелене" финансијске системе". NOVOSTI (in Serbian). Retrieved 5 July 2021.