This report covers the three primary enhancements to transition risk assessments undertaken by programme participants. First, sector-specific working groups participants explored transition risks in a broad range of economic sectors. Then, Oliver Wyman helped UNEP FI build a user-friendly webtool, Transition Check, to run transition risk assessments using the latest climate scenarios (including the reference scenarios produced by the Network for Greening the Financial System). Finally, the participating banks undertook a comprehensive transition risk heatmapping exercise. This exercise generated insights into how climate-sensitive sectors may be impacted during a low-carbon transition. The heatmaps produced not only evaluate transition risks for sectors overall but also for more granular sub-sectors as well.
Overall sector heatmap
UNEP FI believes that Transition Check and the transition heatmap will be valuable tools for the financial industry in evaluating, disclosing, and managing transition risks. Transition Check provides users with losses and default probabilities for sectors, industries, and borrowers in a structured, downloadable format. The transition heatmap reflects the combined perspectives from the nearly forty participating institutions on transition risks to sectors and industries. Taken together, Transition Check and the transition heatmap will enable institutions to conduct climate risk analyses in a standardized and comparable format, which is essential for enhancing future TCFD disclosures.