Dr. Kevin Stiroh, Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future and former Federal Reserve official, on Central Banks and the Supervision of Climate-Related Financial Risk

About this episode

Dr. Kevin Stiroh discusses the role of central banks in addressing climate change as a systemic financial risk.

What role do central banks play in addressing climate change? Dr Kevin Stiroh, former Federal Reserve and now at Resources for the Future, examines how to frame climate change as a systemic financial risk, what’s at stake, and why evolving macroprudential and microprudential frameworks is essential.

People in this episode

Guest: Dr. Kevin Stiroh

Topics covered

• central banks
• climate change
• financial risk
• macroprudential frameworks
• microprudential frameworks

Keywords

• central banks
• climate change
• financial risk
• macroprudential
• microprudential
• Dr. Kevin Stiroh

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Organizations: Resources for the Future, Federal Reserve

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