Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures
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A task force set up to help companies disclose climate risks became a building block for rules that decide what banks can lend.
Who they are
The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), created under the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and chaired by Michael Bloomberg.
What they do
It is presented as a voluntary effort to improve climate risk reporting, but its work fed into a chain that shapes bank capital rules.
How it works
The TCFD was launched by Mark Carney as FSB Chair, who appointed its chair. The record says the forums fed the TCFD, which fed the Network for Greening the Financial System, which calibrates the capital requirements that determine what banks can lend against through Basel 3.1. A cited document says she led the development of the TCFD and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), the two fundamental pillars of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB).
Why it matters
It shows how a body presented as a disclosure task force became part of a system that sets the rules for bank lending.
The engine's record — word for word
The corpus records: "The forums fed the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, which fed the Network for Greening the Financial System, which calibrates the capital requirements that determine what banks can lend against through Basel 3.1." It is presented publicly as: "He announced the creation of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) , to be chaired by Michael Bloomberg 29 ." Documents named in the corpus: Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures; Network for Greening the Financial System; Basel 3.1; Financial Stability Board; IFRS Foundation; International Sustainability Standards Board. Cross-sourced to naturefinance.net, smithschool.ox.ac.uk — documents cited by the corpus and retrieved independently of it.
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