ECB advances climate and nature work after delivering on 2024-2025 plan

EEM HUB NL shares the ECB’s Climate and Nature Plan 2024–2025 and the accompanying ECB press release (16 January 2026), as they show how climate- and nature-related risks are being integrated into the ECB’s core work — with direct relevance for banks’ data capabilities, risk management and disclosures.

The ECB’s update underlines that climate considerations are increasingly embedded across monetary policy operations and portfolio management, banking supervision, and the ECB/Eurosystem’s risk analysis toolkit — including scenario analysis and stress testing (with Fit-for-55-related work) as well as the continued development of climate-related statistics and indicators. In parallel, the ECB is expanding its analytical work on nature-related risks, with a focus on understanding transmission channels to the economy and the financial system. 

For EEM HUB NL members, the practical takeaway is clear: the ECB roadmap points to rising expectations on climate risk integration (and steadily increasing attention to nature), reinforcing the need for robust data, portfolio monitoring and credible approaches to managing both physical and transition risks. 

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