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Climate systemic risk
Central banks and the climate fragility
hypothesis
December 12, 2019
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Future of economic activity and emissions …
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Sources: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report scenario database, 1.5 °C scenarios from scientific literature (see footnote 19), IPCC historical emission database and intended nationally determined contribution quantification
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Which theoretical framework for central
banks, regulators and supervisors?
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The problem(s) with IAMs
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Economy
Atmospheric
temperature
Oceanic
temperature
Deep ocean
Carbon cycle
GHG emissions
Radiative
forcing
Damages
Atmosphere
Biosphere and surface
ocean
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A strong uncertainty over optimal carbon values …
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Source : Moyer et al. (2014)
Source : Stern and Stiglitz
(2017)
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… Coming mainly from uncertainty about discount rate …
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In 2300, +6°C and a very marginal
impact on GDP!!!
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… And the form of the damage function
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Or forced degrowth before the end of the
century?
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The problem(s) with IAMs
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Economy
Atmospheric
temperature
Oceanic
temperature
Deep ocean
Carbon cycle
GHG emissions
Radiative
forcing
Damages
Atmosphere
Biosphere and surface
ocean
A single tool: the unique optimal carbon price
No role for central banks (except through usual
inflation targeting), regulators or supervisors
Strong uncertainties on pricing the future and the for
of the damage function
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Monetary policy and climate change
o Supply-side shocks (McKibbin, 2017):
• might affect central banks’ price stability mandate (through
agricultural and energy products mainly)
• after extreme events in the SR,
• but also by reducing productive capacity in the LR
o Demand shocks:
• investment or consumption behaviours are changed with uncertain
impacts
o Price and output may go in different directions, letting the CB to
choose between two essential objectives (Debelle, 2019)
o BUT:
• Climate change is not a cyclical phenomenon (Coeuré, 2018)
Climate change might induce supply and demand side
shocks
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The difficult risk management
approach
The « greatest market failure the world
has ever seen » (Stern, 2007)
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A need to explicitly represent financial actors
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Economy
Atmosphere
Deep ocean
Carbon cycle
GHG emissions
Radiative
forcing
Damages
Finance Biased financing decisions
Atmospheric
temperature
Oceanic
temperature
Biosphere and surface
ocean
Imperfectly anticipated damages
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An important precursor
Mark Carney: climate change is a « tragedy of the horizons »
(Sept. 2015) for the financial system
o Monetary policy: 2-3 years
o Financial stability: 5-10 years
o Climate change: 2030, 2050, 2100
‘..once climate change becomes a defining issue for financial
stability, it may already be too late’
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Physical risks
« those risks that arise from the interaction of climate-related hazards
[…] with the vulnerability of exposure to human and natural systems »
(Batten et al., 2016)
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Transition risks
risk associated with a massive shift from carbon-intensive (or brown)
assets to greener ones
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Source : Dietz et al (2016)
Source : Battiston et al. (2017)
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A need to explicitly represent financial actors
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Economy
Atmospher
e
Deep ocean
Carbon cycle
GHG emissions
Radiative
forcing
Damages
Finance Biased financing decisions
Atmospheric
temperature
Oceanic
temperature
Biosphere and surface
ocean
Imperfectly anticipated damages
The single carbon price tool cannot be achieved for
eco/social reasons
Target a thin path between transition and physical risks
A natural role for central banks, regulators and supervisors
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Climate change as a threat to financial stability
Channels (DG treasury, 2017): • Credit risk:
borrower’s ability to repay their debt, leading to higher probability of
default
Potential depreciation of assets used for collateral could increase credit
risk
• Market risk:
Fire-sale of assets due to rapid transition and/or physical exposure
• Liquidity risk:
Difficult refinancing of banks in the SR, leading to tensions on the interbank
lending market
• Operational risk:
Direct exposure of financial institutions to physical risks
Channels
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Institutional initiatives
• FSB : Task Force on Climate related Financial Disclosure • Voluntary information related to climat change (december 2016
report)
• G20 : Green Finance Sub Group (GFSG) directed by BoE
and PBoC • Recommandations on greening the banking system, institutional
investors, on the risk analysis and the measure of progress
• Studies by central banks and prudential authorities:
• De Nederlandsche Bank, Swedish Financial Supervisory
Authority, UK Prudential Regulation Authority, Banque de France,
Banque du Liban, …
• Creation of the NGFS
Tools
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Institutional initiatives
• FSB : Task Force on Climate related Financial Disclosure • Voluntary information related to climat change (december 2016
report)
• G20 : Green Finance Sub Group (GFSG) directed by BoE
and PBoC • Recommandations on greening the banking system, institutional
investors, on the risk analysis and the measure of progress
• ESRB: 2016 report on the systemic carbon risk for EU
• Studies by central banks and prudential authorities:
• De Nederlandsche Bank, Swedish Financial Supervisory
Authority, UK Prudential Regulation Authority, Banque de France,
Banque du Liban, …
• Creation of the NGFS
Tools
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Axis 1 : restore market efficiency : - Transparency of information
- Support to the development of green bonds
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Institutional initiatives
Tools
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Source: ESRB (2016)
Source: UK Prudential regulation authority (2015)
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Institutional initiatives
Tools
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Source: ESRB (2016)
Source: UK Prudential regulation authority (2015)
Axis 2 : acknowledgement of the impossible diversification of climate risk and need to use:
- Climate stress-tests
- Climate related macroprudential policies
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o BUT:
• The combination of risks and the related uncertainties probably make the risk management approach insufficient (Aglietta and Espagne, 2016)
• Climate change calls for measures to hedge against fat-tail climate
risks (Weitzman, 2009)
o The combination of risks may lead to a « climate Minsky
moment » (Carney, 2015; Pereira da Silva, 2019).
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Legal risk
Extreme events
Climate fragility Financial fragility
Biochemical uncertainties
Carbon risk
Atmospheric
temperature
Température
océanique
Atmosphere
Deep
ocean
Carbon cycle
GHG emissions
Radiative forcing
Damages
Biosphere and surface ocean
Finance Economic agents
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Monetary policy
Wrongly anticipated damages
Financing decision
Climate fragility Financial fragility
Financial cycle
Financial regulation
Atmospheric temperature
Température
océanique
Atmosphere
Deep ocean
Carbon cycle
GHG emissions
Radiative forcing
Damages
Biosphere and surface ocean
Finance Economic agents
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Financial cycle and technical system
An institutional mismatch between the financial structure
and the (required) technical system
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Type
d’innovation
Émergence Diffusion Crise
d’adaptation
Maturité Période
totale
Machine à
vapeur et
textiles
1762-1774 1794-1834 1834-1843 1844-1861 1762-1861
Rail et
sidérurgie
1831-1847 1847-1888 1888-1895 1896-1917 1831-1917
Production de
masse
1882-1908 1908-1937 1937-1949 1950-1973 1882-1973
Information et
communication
1961-1981 1981-2000 2000-2013 2013- ? 1961- ?
Environnement 1972-2015 2015- ? ? ? ? ? 1972- ?
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Financial cycle and technical system
An institutional mismatch between the financial structure
and the (required) technical system
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Type
d’innovation
Émergence Diffusion Crise
d’adaptation
Maturité Période
totale
Machine à
vapeur et
textiles
1762-1774 1794-1834 1834-1843 1844-1861 1762-1861
Rail et
sidérurgie
1831-1847 1847-1888 1888-1895 1896-1917 1831-1917
Production de
masse
1882-1908 1908-1937 1937-1949 1950-1973 1882-1973
Information et
communication
1961-1981 1981-2000 2000-2013 2013- ? 1961- ?
Environnement 1972-2015 2015- ? ? ? ? ? 1972- ?
A multiplicity of (technical) equilibria can arise in the long run.
Debt dynamics and the financial system as a whole play a key
role in discriminating between the possible futures.
Calls for a much more proactive role of central banks,
supervisors and regulators
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Policy consequences
More than a market failure (Svartzman et al., 2019)
o The social cost of carbon does not imply a single carbon tax
tool, but could be translated into a more complex policy mix
combining monetary, prudential and fiscal instruments
(Krogstrup and Oman, 2019):
• Increased role for fiscal policy, especially at the zero lower bond (« green new deal » and beyond)
• Increased cooperation on climate issues among international financial authorities (NGFS, Coalition of finance minister for climate action, Basel committees, …) for strengthened regulations and carbon valuation tools (SCC, value of avoided emissions, …)
• Systematic integration of climate and sustainibility in corporate and national accounting.
o The debt emitted by the central bank is the ultimate asset
provider for private and economic actors.
• CB as a collective insurer within the LCT dynamics?
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