Network for Greening the Financial System

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Network for Greening the Financial System
AbbreviationNGFS
FormationDecember 2017
Location
  • Paris, France
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]

Contents

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

The NGFS organises events and research on climate change.

Recommendations for central banks and supervisory authorities

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):

Climate scenarios

annual greenhouse gas emissions in the various climate scenarios of the NGFS, 2022 NGFS Climate Scenarios 2022 CO2 Emissions.png
annual greenhouse gas emissions in the various climate scenarios of the NGFS, 2022

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

Today the NGFS comprises 75 members and 13 observers. [14]

Members of the NGFS
NameMembershipJoin date
Banque de France and ACPRPermanent member2017
Bank of England Permanent member2017
De Nederlandsche Bank Permanent member2017
Austrian Financial Market Authority
Banco Central de Costa Rica 2019
Banca d’Italia
Banco de MéxicoPermanent member
Banco de España 2018
Banco de la República (Central Bank of Colombia)2019
Banco de Portugal2018
Bank Al-Maghrib2018
Bank Indonesia 2019
Bank Negara Malaysia (Central Bank of Malaysia)2018
Bank of Canada
Bank of Finland2018
Bank of Greece
Bank of Israel
Bank of Japan2019
Bank of Korea2019
Bank of Mauritius2020
Bank of Slovenia
Bank of Thailand2019
Banque Centrale de Tunisie2019
Banque centrale du Luxembourg2018
Bank of Estonia2020
Bank of Latvia2020
Bank of Lithuania2020
Bank of Russia2019
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas2020
Central Bank of Brazil2020
Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin)Permanent member2017
Bank of Mauritius
Central Bank of Armenia2020
Central Bank of Cyprus2020
Central Bank of Hungary
Central Bank of Malta
Central Bank of Seychelles
Central Bank of West African States2020
Comision Nacional Bancaria y de Valores2019
Comisión para el Mercado Financiero de Chile2019
Commission de contrôle des activités financières (Monaco)
Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (Luxembourg)
Danish Financial Supervisory Authority2020
Danmarks Nationalbank
Department of Financial Services (DFS) of the State of New York2019
Deutsche BundesbankPermanent member2017
Dubai Financial Services Authority
European Banking Authority (EBA)2018
European Central Bank (ECB)Permanent member2018
European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA)
Federal Reserve Bank of the United StatesPermanent member2020
Finansinspektionen (Swedish FSA)Permanent member2017
Finanstilsynet (Norwegian FSA)
Guernsey Financial Services Commission2019
Isle of Man Financial Services Authority2020
Istituto per la Vigilanza sulle Assicurazioni (IVASS)
Hong Kong Monetary AuthorityFounding member2017
Japan FSA2018
Malta Financial Services Authority2020
Monetary Authority of SingaporePermanent member2017
Národná banka Slovenska2019
National Bank of Belgium2018
National Bank of Cambodia2020
National Bank of Georgia2020
National Bank of Romania
Norges Bank2018
Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB)2018
People's Bank of ChinaPermanent member2017
Reserve Bank of Australia2018
Reserve Bank of New Zealand2018
South African Reserve Bank
Superintendencia Financiera De Colombia
Sveriges Riksbank2018
Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA)
Swiss National Bank
Asian Development BankObserver
Bank for International SettlementObserver2018
Basel Committee on Banking SupervisionObserver
European Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentObserver2018
International Organization of Securities COmmission (IOSCO)Observer2019
European Investment BankObserver
IDB (Inter-American Development Bank)Observer2019
International Association of Insurance SupervisorsObserver
International Monetary FundObserver2019
NIB (Nordic Investment bank)Observer
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)Observer2018
Sustainable Insurance ForumObserver2018
World Bank and the International Finance CorporationObserver2018
Reserve Bank of India Member2021 [15]
National Bank of Serbia Member2021 [16]

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