News: climate, economy and financial stability
The latest publications from international financial institutions, gathered automatically every day. Titles are in their original language and link to the source.
Updated : 6 November 2026
November 2026
- Analysis: China’s quarterly CO2 falls 3% in largest drop since Covid
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 3.1% in the third quarter of 2026, as the Hormuz crisis continued to…
- Sharon Donnery: If time stood still: regulatory modernisation and financial stability
- ‘Simply staggering’: Rapidly developing ‘super El Niño’ on track to peak in December
The ongoing “super El Niño” is likely to peak at the end of 2026 and push average global temperatures to…
- IPCC at COP31
GENEVA, Nov 6 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will have a strong presence and will actively contribute to the 31st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP31) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),…
- Anneli Tuominen: Anti-money laundering: how are supervisors tackling the current challenges?
- Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at the COP31 climate summit
The centrepiece of every UN climate summit is for countries to negotiate the wording of a large number of legal…
- CB Live: Carbon Brief’s team at COP17 on the nature talks’ key outcomes
Following this year’s UN COP17 biodiversity conference, Carbon Brief’s journalists hosted a livestream to explain what happened at the summit.…
- Q&A: What is the Brazil-led ‘deforestation roadmap’?
On 3 November, the Brazilian presidency of the COP30 climate talks released its long-awaited “roadmap” on ending deforestation. Ahead of…
- Q&A: What is in the global ‘roadmap’ for transitioning away from fossil fuels?
Transitioning away from fossil fuels is “urgent, inevitable and, yet, possible”, according to a first-of-its-kind global “roadmap” produced by Brazil.…
- Pedro Machado: Simplification and complexity in the banking union: separating the wheat from the chaff
- UK climate minister Katie White: COP31 must respond to ‘really scary’ science
The upcoming COP31 climate talks in Antalya, Turkey need to respond to the latest science on global warming, which is…
- State of the climate: 2026 likely to tie with 2024 as the warmest year on record
With three-quarters of the year now past, it is virtually certain that 2026 will be the warmest or second-warmest year…
- Interactive: Who wants what at the COP31 climate change summit
Delegates will soon gather in the Turkish resort city of Antalya for UN climate negotiations, against a backdrop of war,…
- IPCC authors meet in Tanzania to advance report on physical science of climate change
GENEVA, Nov 2- Scientists of the Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which assesses the physical science of climate change, are meeting in Arusha, Tanzania, from 2 to 6 November to advance their contribution to the Seventh…
October 2026
- COP17: Key outcomes agreed at the UN biodiversity conference in Yerevan
Countries have completed the first “global review” of their progress towards reversing nature loss by 2030 at the COP17 biodiversity…
- Pedro Machado: Interview with Bloomberg
- IPCC Invites Experts to Review Draft Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage
GENEVA, Oct 30 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has opened registration for experts to review the First Order Draft of the 2027 IPCC Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage for…
- CPMI publishes analysis on how central banks support payment system safety and efficiency and trust in money in the rapidly changing payments ecosystem
A new report by the BIS Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) examines how technological innovation, changing user demand and the emergence of new types of payment service providers and arrangements are transforming payment systems.
- Experts: What China wants from the COP31 climate talks
With the COP31 climate summit in Turkey looming, all eyes are on China to see what the country will push…
- Analysis: China’s clean-tech exports in 2026 to avoid as much CO2 as Brazil emits in a year
China’s exports in 2026 of clean-energy technologies, such as solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles, are on track to cut…
- IPCC’s Sixty-Fifth Session
GENEVA, Oct 29 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will resume its Sixty-Fifth Session (IPCC-65) from 1 to 3 December 2026. The meeting will be held virtually.
- Revealed: UK relied on £2bn of ‘questionable accounting’ to hit its climate-aid goal
The UK has beaten its target to provide £11.6bn of climate aid to developing countries by 2026 – but only…
- Analysis: How the UK spent more than £11.6bn on climate aid since 2021
The UK has spent £12.8bn on climate aid for developing countries since 2021, according to official figures obtained by Carbon…
- UK budget 2026: Key climate and energy announcements
Chancellor John Healey has announced a “new course on energy” for the UK, focused on keeping bills low amid the…
- Guest post: Greenland ice sheet shrinks for 30th year in a row
Greenland has now marked the 30th consecutive year where it lost more ice than it gained. Over the 12-month period…
- Q&A: Why are UK energy bills so high – and how could they be lowered?
Energy bills in the UK have continued to soar in 2026, with intense debate raging about how to bring them…
- Frank Elderson: Taking action for nature – investing in economic resilience and prosperity
- Patrick Montagner: Stress testing in a changing risk environment
- List of supervised entities - Cut-off date 1 September 2026
- Chart: A record two-thirds of car sales in China are now electric vehicles
For the first time, new-energy vehicles (NEVs) made up 67% of new car sales in China in September, according to…
- Experts: How are climate scientists using artificial intelligence?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing at a rapid pace and is increasingly being used by scientists to better understand climate…
- FCBD COP17 - NGFS Side Event "From framework to implementation: how managing nature-related financial risks supports the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework" Events Event 22nd of October 2026
- CBD COP17 - NGFS Side Event "From framework to implementation: how managing nature-related financial risks supports the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework" Events Event 22nd of October 2026
- Revealed: Expensive gas behind ‘nearly 90%’ of rise in UK electricity bills
A surge in wholesale costs driven by expensive gas is responsible for nearly 90% of the rise in UK household…
- UNEP: Opportunity has ‘been lost’ to meet 1.5C warming limit without ‘overshoot’
A temporary breach of the 1.5C global-warming limit is now “inevitable” following “decades of insufficient climate action”, says the UN…
- Frank Elderson: Interview with Die Presse
- Q&A: Why a pivotal IPCC meeting in Ethiopia ended in ‘profound disappointment’
Countries have failed – for the sixth time running – to agree on the timeline for publishing the Intergovernmental Panel…
- Central banks and macro financial stability in a fragmented global economy
The 25th BIS Annual Conference took place in Basel, Switzerland on 26 June 2026.
- Frank Elderson: From climate and nature risks to economic resilience and competitiveness
- NGFS Declaration "Taking Action for Nature: Supporting Financial Stability and Sustainability" General - Statement COP 19th of October 2026
- Statement by the IPCC Chair Jim Skea on suspension of the 65th Plenary Session of the IPCC
Last Friday evening (16 October), I suspended the 65th Plenary Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Addis Ababa. This means that the work of this Plenary has not finished.
- Shackleton’s lesson: we still have a choice Speeches of the Chair and the Vice-Chair Macro-economy +1 19th of October 2026
- Basel Committee finalises measures to address window-dressing in the G-SIB framework and consults on G-SIB methodology review
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision today published final amendments to address window dressing in the G-SIB framework and a consultation on the G-SIB methodology review.
- COP17: Which countries have released new pledges to tackle nature loss?
Some 58% of countries have met a UN call to submit new pledges on addressing nature loss – two years…
- 65th Plenary Session of IPCC suspended
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 16 – The IPCC Chair, Jim Skea, suspended tonight the 65th Plenary Session in Addis Ababa after the meeting ran over its planned duration and many delegations from least developed countries and Small Island Developing States had to leave.
- Regulatory reporting on profit and loss: institutions will have option to report under IAS 1 or IFRS 18
- COP17: Tracking progress towards the UN’s 2030 nature targets
Countries will meet in Armenia this month to carry out the first global review of progress towards meeting key nature…
- COP17: Developed countries ‘fall far short’ of UN targets for nature finance
The amount of finance for nature delivered to date “falls far short” of what is needed to meet the UN’s…
- Sound Practices for Responsible Adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Final report
- Sound Practices for Responsible Adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Overview of consultation responses
- FSB finalises sound practices for the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)
- Global standard-setting bodies publish final report on guidance for FMIs on general business risks and general business losses
The Bank for International Settlements’ Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today published a final report on financial market infrastructures’ (FMIs) management of…
- Money and the architecture of trust
Money is one of the most consequential social institutions humanity has built. Starting from the most elementary monetary act, a payment, this paper provides an account of how money works, grounded in the tradition of credit theories of money.
- Frank Elderson: Ensuring resilience in the face of uncertainty
- G20 Implementation Monitoring Review: 2026 report
- Regulatory and Supervisory Modernisation Principles: Consultation report
- FSB consults on high-level principles for regulatory and supervisory modernisation
- Basel Committee finds Australia, Japan, Korea, Switzerland compliant, and Canada, United Kingdom largely compliant with its leverage ratio framework
The Basel Committee has published assessment reports on the implementation of its leverage ratio framework (LEV) in Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
- NGFS publishes Nature-related risks: a Compendium of Implementation Practices to guide Action by Central Banks and Supervisors Press release Nature-related risks +1 to support central banks and supervisors in advancing…
- Nature-related risks: a Compendium of Implementation Practices to guide Action by Central Banks and Supervisors Nature-related risks - Report – Nature related risks Nature-related risks Capacity building and training…
- Water scarcity as a nature-related financial risk: Legal aspects Legal issues - Report – Legal issues Legal Nature-related risks 13th of October 2026
- FSB Chair sets out FSB work on AI and stablecoins
- Global Stablecoin Arrangements: Cross-border vulnerabilities and financial stability monitoring
- IPCC Opens Sixty Fifth Plenary Session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 12 – The Sixty-Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- IPCC Chair Jim Skea’s remarks during the opening of the 65th Session of the IPCC
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 12 October 2026 Thank you, Ko, especially as you serve in a dual role at this plenary: interim Secretary of the IPCC and Deputy Secretary-General of the WMO.
- Artificial intelligence and climate change: balancing innovation and sustainability
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming an increasingly important factor in the climate transition. AI can improve energy efficiency, optimise resource use, accelerate climate innovation and strengthen climate forecasting, adaptation and risk management.
- Basel III applicable in almost all member jurisdictions by 2027
Three quarters of the Basel Committee’s 27 member jurisdictions have now published regulations implementing the full set of Basel III standards. Almost all member jurisdictions have publicly announced that banks must apply Basel III by April 2027 or earlier.
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Sources: Financial Stability Board : publications · Financial Stability Board : communiqués · Banque des règlements internationaux : communiqués · Banque des règlements internationaux : BIS Papers · BCE, supervision bancaire : communiqués · Carbon Brief (science et politique climatiques) · BCE, supervision bancaire : publications · NGFS : actualités · NGFS : communiqués · NGFS : publications · GIEC (IPCC) : actualités et communiqués. The “Climate and finance” label is automatic, based on keywords in the title and summary. The theme is assigned automatically: a multilingual embedding model (paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2) compares each release with a short description of each theme, without any external service. The summary is extracted from the source text in its original language, adding nothing. The classification can sometimes be wrong.