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Response to discussion Paper on management and supervision of ESG risks for credit institutions and investment firms (EBA/DP/2020/03)
Go back1. Please provide details of other relevant frameworks for ESG factors you use.
Please refer to the attached document.2. Please provide your views on the proposed definition of ESG factors and ESG risks.
Please refer to the attached document.3. Do you agree that, for the purpose of assessing their inclusion in institutions’ and supervisors’ practices from a prudential perspective, ESG risks should be approached primarily from the angle of the negative impacts of ESG factors on institutions’ counterparties? Please explain why.
Please refer to the attached document.4. Please provide your views on the proposed definitions of transition risks and physical risks included in section 4.3.
Please refer to the attached document.5. Please provide you views on the proposed definition of social risks and governance risks. As an institution, to which extent is the on-going COVID-19 crisis having an impact on your approach to ESG factors and ESG risks?
Please refer to the attached document.6. Do you agree with the description of liability transmission channels/liability risks, including the consideration that liability risks may also arise from social and governance factors? If not, please explain why.
Please refer to the attached document.7. Do the specificities of investment firms compared to credit institutions justify the elaboration of different definitions, or are the proposed definitions included in chapter 4 also applicable to them (in particular the perspective of counterparties)? Please elaborate on the potential specificities of investment firms in relation to ESG risks and on how these specificities, if any, could be reflected in this paper.
Please refer to the attached document.8. Please provide your views on the relevance and use of qualitative and quantitative indicators related to the identification of ESG risks.
Please refer to the attached document.9. As an institution, do you use or plan to use some of the ESG indicators (including taxonomies, standards, labels and benchmarks) described in section 5.1 or any other indicators, inter alia for the purpose of risks management? If yes, please explain which ones.
Please refer to the attached document.10. As an institution, do you use or plan to use a portfolio alignment method in your approach to measuring and managing ESG risks? Please explain why and provide details on the methodology used.
Please refer to the attached document.11. As an institution, do you use or plan to use a risk framework method (including climate stress testing and climate sensitivity analysis) in your approach to measuring and managing ESG risks? Please explain why and provide details on the methodology used.
Please refer to the attached document.12. .As an institution, do you use or plan to use an exposure method in your approach to measuring and managing ESG risks? Please explain why and provide details on the methodology used.
Please refer to the attached document.13. As an institution, do you use or plan to use any different approaches in relation to ESG risk management than the ones included in chapter 5? If yes, please provide details.
Please refer to the attached document.14. Specifically for investment firms, do you apply other methodological approaches, or are the approaches described in this chapter applicable also for investment firms?
Please refer to the attached document.15. Please provide your views on the extent to which smaller institutions can be vulnerable to ESG risks and on the criteria that should be used to design and implement a proportionate ESG risks management approach.
Please refer to the attached document.16. Through which measures could the adoption of strategic ESG risk-related objectives and/or limits be further supported?
Please refer to the attached document.17. Please provide your views on the proposed ways how to integrate ESG risks into the business strategies and processes of institutions.
Please refer to the attached document.18. Please provide your views on the proposed ways how to integrate ESG risks into the internal governance of institutions.
Please refer to the attached document.19. Please provide your views on the proposed ways how to integrate ESG risks into the risk management framework of institutions.
Please refer to the attached document.20. The EBA acknowledges that institutions’ approaches to environmental, and particularly climate-related, risks might be more advanced compared to social and governance risks, and gives particular prominence in this report to the former type of risks. To what extent do you support this approach? Please also provide your views on any specificities associated with the management of social and governance risks.
Please refer to the attached document.21. Specifically for investment firms, what are the most relevant characteristics or particularities of business strategies, internal governance and risk management that should be taken into account for the management of the ESG risks? Please provide specific suggestions how could these be reflected.
Please refer to the attached document.22. Please provide your views on the incorporation of ESG factors and ESG risks considerations in the business model analysis of credit institutions.
Please refer to the attached document.23. Do you agree with the need to extend the time horizon of the supervisory assessment of the business model and introduce as a new area of analysis the assessment of the long term resilience of credit institutions in accordance with relevant public policies? Please explain why.
Please refer to the attached document.24. Please provide your views on the incorporation of ESG risks considerations into the assessment of the credit institution’s internal governance and wide controls.
Please refer to the attached document.25. Please provide your views on the incorporation of ESG risks considerations in the assessment of risks to capital, liquidity and funding.
Please refer to the attached document.26. If not covered in your previous answers, please provide your views on whether the principle of proportionality is appropriately reflected in the discussion paper, and your suggestions in this respect keeping in mind the need to ensure consistency with a risk-based approach.
Please refer to the attached document.27. Are there other important channels (i.e. other than the ones included in chapter 7) through which ESG risks should be incorporated in the supervisory review of credit institutions?
Please refer to the attached document.28. As an institution, do you use or plan to use some of the indicators and metrics included in Annex 1? If yes, please describe how they are used in relation to your ESG risk management approach.
Please refer to the attached document.29. If relevant, please elaborate on potential obstacles, including scope of applicability, granularity and data availability, associated with the indicators and metrics included in Annex 1.
Please refer to the attached document.Name of the organization
European Association of Co-operative Banks (EACB)
