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ARTICLE · 15 FEBRUARY 2023

Building Climate Risk Into Every Bit Of A Bank's Business

In 2020, the Financial Conduct Authority laid down a challenge to the UK's big businesses: measure the climate risks of your operations, and tell us what you're going to do about them.

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How does a major bank prove to the regulators that it's serious about climate change?

In 2020, the Financial Conduct Authority laid down a challenge to the UK's big businesses: measure the climate risks of your operations, and tell us what you're going to do about them.

There was no blueprint for this, and one major UK bank called on Baringa's in-house climate experts to help.

We built models from the bottom up, and working practices from the top down

We used our award-winning climate scenario model to delve into the bank's climate footprint. We took account of every asset insured and every penny invested, tracing those threads of impact all the way up, until the bank had a full and robust picture of their climate risk. Then, we built a plan for what to do about it.

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