How Material are Systemic Climate Risks?

Systemic climate risk is arguably the biggest threat to business as usual

Systemic climate risk is largely being ignored in corporate climate responses

Systemic climate risks could manifest anytime - it's not a "future risk"

The systemic climate risk literature is exploding

We are a climate-driven crop failure away from systemic disruption

Because promoting systemic resilience would influence international monetary reform

Climate change has all the characteristics of financial systemic risk

Climate change impacts are systemic in nature

Individual insurance efforts will be powerless and even counter-productive

One can compute the VAR associated with climate shocks

Risk managers have paid little attention to potential economic imbalances

Systemic shocks are by definition non-insurable and non-diversifiable

The global food system is increasingly vulnerable to shocks

Why the idea of systemic risk should be applied to climate change

2014 CERES_Reducing Systemic Risks

2014 CLC_Climate Change A Systemic Risk

2015 BZE_Carbon Crisis Systemic risk of carbon emission liabilities

2015 Lloyds_Food System Shock

2016 ESRB_Too late too sudden: Transition to a low-carbon economy and systemic risk

2016 IHS Energy_Do Investments in Oil and Gas Constitute Systemic Risk

2018 Nature_ Climate Change_Broad threat to humanity from cumulative climate hazards

2019 Fried_The Systemic Risk of Climate Policy

2019 Spratt_Existential climate-related security risk A scenario approach

2020 Bolton_The Green Swan Central banking and financial stability in the age of climate change

2016/9 Investors fear next financial crisis will be climate-related – EURACTIV.com

2018/11 ‘Like a Terror Movie’: How Climate Change Will Cause More Simultaneous Disasters

2018/11 UK faces 88% risk of economic collapse from Climate Change this century

2018/11 Will the next housing crisis be climate-related?

2019/1 The Next Financial Crisis Could Be Caused by Climate Change

2019/3 Why climate change is an ‘all-encompassing threat’

2020/2 Coronavirus Is Bad, But The Green Swan Is Worse

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How Material are Systemic Climate Risks?

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How Business-Material are Systemic Climate Risks?

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