ESG and Stress Testing

Stress tests assess the risk bearing capacity of individual banks as well as the banking system as a whole. In this context, also based on the relevant legal bases, the effects of various aspects of climate- and environment-related risks on the resilience of credit institutions and the financial system have already been analysed on multiple occasions in recent years at both national and European level. The list below contains an overview of the analyses that have been conducted, on the one hand to make the results and potential effects transparent, and on the other hand to also provide an overview about the advances in methodologies used.

Further information about various stress tests can be found here:

European Banking Authority and European Central Bank: EBA/ECB Fit for 55 Stress Test

European Central Bank: ECB Climate Risk Stress Test

Oesterreichische Nationalbank: OeNB Climate Risk Stress Test 2021