The methodological paper focuses on the climate change component and is a further step in enhancing EIOPA’s stress testing framework.
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today its third paper
in a series of papers on the methodological principles of insurance
stress testing.
In particular, the paper sets out methodological principles that can
be used to design bottom-up stress test exercises that aim to assess the
vulnerability of insurers to climate risks. Although the emergence of
climate risks is relatively recent compared to other insurance-specific
and financial risks, incorporating them has rapidly become a priority
for policymakers and supervisors alike.
Hence, any climate change stress test at this stage should be
considered as part of a learning curve for industry and supervisors that
is bound to evolve in the future. Already now, climate stress testing
is an important tool to:
- raise awareness of climate-related risks,
- understand how insurers assess such risks,
- enhance risk management capabilities,
- evaluate potential spillover effects to other parts of the financial sector and to the real economy.
Amid the increasing consideration given to climate risks by the
insurance industry and by supervisors at a European and global level,
and in the absence of a commonly adopted climate stress testing
framework for the insurance sector in the European Union, the paper
presents conceptual approaches to the assessment of the climate risks
for insurers under adverse scenarios.
The paper also took into account the feedback provided by stakeholders during the public consultation.
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