Organizations Involved: Environmental Defense Fund, Institute for Policy Integrity
Source: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Abstract
These comments to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) support the FDIC’s draft principles on banks’ management of climate-related financial risks, and offer recommendations for the FDIC as it continues building on these principles with more detailed guidance. The comments recommend that the FDIC consider: (1) providing more detail on the physical and transition risks that affect management of various risk areas; (2) guiding banks on use of climate-related data; (3) requiring banks to incorporate climate risk into regulatory reports; (4) defining certain scenarios and accounting for correlated risks in scenario analysis; and (5) mitigating potential harm to disadvantaged communities from banks’ climate risk management strategies.
