About This Event
“Turn climate science into supervisory questions a bank board has to answer.”
An entry-level virtual course for supervisors new to climate-related financial risk. It explains how physical and transition risks reach bank balance sheets, how to read and use climate scenario analysis, and how supervisors are building climate risk into governance expectations, risk management and the prudential framework.
What You'll Explore
A supervisory question bank on climate governance and risk management
An exposure-mapping template for sectoral and geographic climate risk
Working familiarity with NGFS scenarios and how banks apply them
A review checklist aligned to the Basel climate principles
A phased climate-risk supervisory roadmap for your jurisdiction
Who Should Attend
Open to all qualifying staff, particularly: Banking Supervisors, Financial Stability Analysts, Prudential Policy Staff, Sustainable Finance Units, Risk Specialists.
Why This Course Matters
Climate as Financial Risk
Droughts, floods and carbon policy change the value of loans and collateral across African banking systems. Seeing climate as credit, market and liquidity risk tells you where to look first in a bank.
Scenarios You Can Read
Scenario analysis turns long-horizon climate pathways into projected losses by sector and region. Knowing how the numbers are built lets you challenge a bank's results instead of accepting them.
A Clear Prudential Path
Supervisors worldwide are writing climate risk into governance, ICAAP and disclosure expectations. Understanding that path lets your authority set proportionate expectations without waiting for others.
Programme
Module 1
Climate science & transmission to financial risk
You will learn the climate science a supervisor needs and trace how physical and transition risks travel through households, firms and sovereigns into credit, market, liquidity and operational risk.
Module 2
Measuring exposures: data, sectors & geography
You will map a bank's climate exposures by sector and location, using emissions data, hazard maps and proxies, and learn how to work sensibly with the data gaps common in emerging markets.
Module 3
Climate scenario analysis & NGFS pathways
You will work with NGFS scenarios, translate them into sector shocks and loan-level impacts, and learn what a scenario exercise can and cannot tell you about a bank's resilience.
Module 4
Governance, risk management & supervisory review
You will assess a bank's climate governance, risk appetite and ICAAP treatment against the Basel climate principles, and draft the supervisory questions that expose weak integration.
Module 5
Prudential treatment, disclosure & next steps
You will review how climate risk is being handled in Pillar 1, Pillar 2 and Pillar 3 disclosure, and build a short, phased supervisory roadmap suited to your own jurisdiction.
Standards & Faculty Benchmark
NGFS scenarios & guidance
The central bank network's climate scenarios and supervisory guidance used worldwide for scenario analysis.
BCBS Climate-Related Financial Risk Principles
Basel principles on governance, risk management and supervision of climate-related financial risks.
IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures (ISSB)
The ISSB standard setting out climate-related disclosures, including scenario analysis and emissions.
NGFS scenarios and the Basel climate principles are the common reference for supervisors, banks and IMF assessors on climate risk. Learning them from the start means your first supervisory expectations are consistent with those your banks' parent groups already face.
Is This Right for You?
- ☑You are new to climate-related financial risk
- ☑Your institution is starting its climate supervision work
- ☑You want a grounded introduction you can apply straight away
Good to Know
Pitched at supervisors new to climate risk; no climate-science or modelling background is required, and each module is designed around a working supervisor's week. You leave with a supervisory question bank, an exposure-mapping template and a phased climate roadmap.
The Bottom Line
Finish with the questions, templates and roadmap to start supervising climate risk in your banks the month you log off.
Recommended For
Open to all qualifying staff, particularly: Banking Supervisors, Financial Stability Analysts, Prudential Policy Staff, Sustainable Finance Units, Risk Specialists.