Workshop: Climate change and central banking – a Nordic perspective
Monday 25 October 2021
Workshop with Norges Bank's Deputy Governor Ida Wolden Bache and Deputy Governors from the other central banks in the Nordic countries.
Program
9:00-9:05 Practical information
9:05-9:25 Welcome address by Ida Wolden Bache, Deputy Governor, Norges Bank
9:25-10:25 Presentations of analytical work by Nordic central banks
9:25-9:45 Johannes Pöschl, Senior Economist, Danmarks Nationalbank: Analysis of the effect of flooding risk on Danish house prices (pdf)
9:45-10:05 Anu Karhu, Economist, Bank of Finland’s project on Bridging Data Gaps (pdf)
10:05-10:25 Haakon Solheim, Project Director, Norges Bank: How to assess climate risks in the Norwegian banking sector? (pdf)
10:25-10:55: Break
10:55-11:15: Presentation by Anna Breman, Deputy Governor, Sveriges Riksbank, Implications for monetary policy of climate change (pdf)
11:15-12:15: Panel discussion
Key questions: What should be the key priorities for central banks’ work related to climate change? What can and should central banks do?
Moderator: Maria Berg Reinertsen, journalist at Morgenbladet
Participants
Gunnar Jakobsson, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Iceland
Marja Nykanen, Deputy Governor, Bank of Finland
Signe Krogstrup, Governor, Danmarks Nationalbank
Anna Breman, Deputy Governor, Sveriges Riksbank
Ida Wolden Bache, Deputy Governor, Norges Bank