Throwback Friday: Louie’s top 5 articles

In cricket, a player raises his bat to acknowledge the support of the crowd when he makes a respectable score. Here in the slightly less physically demanding world of professional posting, Tony and I are on course to publish our 100th Unpacking Climate Risk article next week and wanted to celebrate by ... giving ourselves a break.

That’s why today I’m posting my personal top 5 contributions in our joint century of articles. Tony’s list of favorites will follow next week. In the spirit of generosity encapsulated by a good old fashioned ‘bat raising’, we’ve made the articles free-to-view, so that non-paying subscribers (and the casual reader) can have a gander. And if you appreciate the reads do consider metaphorically ‘buying us a coffee’ by smashing the tip button here👇

Tony and I will be back over the weekend with more subscriber-only articles. Till then, Happy Friday!

Louie’s Top Five Articles

Why I’m a transition finance skeptic

‘Transition finance’ is an amorphous concept. There’s a danger it allows banks to continue financing clients as they see fit while claiming to take climate action.

What if emissions aren’t a good proxy for transition risk?

Regulators want financed emissions numbers in bank risk disclosures. But they may not be able to tell us much about firms’ exposure to transition shocks.

On the toothlessness of the NGFS

The network of climate-friendly banks has put out a slew of papers. Few touch on where they could have the most climate impact.

Is the BoE’s latest climate risk action all it seems?

The Bank of England is barring energy inefficient homes from its collateral framework. I think the decision has more to do with policy than risk management.

A new paper argues FinReg is slowing the climate transition. I’m not convinced

Data analysis divorced from reality does little to support the authors’ claims.