03 Aug 2021
The Joint Committee on Climate Change (JC3) held its fifth meeting on 2 August 2021 to discuss the progress of its current priorities and ongoing initiatives in pursuing collaborative actions for building climate resilience within the Malaysian financial sector.
The JC3 continues to advance initiatives to strengthen the financial sector's capacity in managing climate-related risks. Following the issuance of the Climate Change and Principle-Based Taxonomy (CCPT) in April 2021, a CCPT Implementation Group will be established to support its consistent and credible implementation by financial institutions. Twelve JC3 members have committed to early adoption of the CCPT, in advance of expectations for financial institutions regulated by BNM to classify and report their lending and investment activities in line with the CCPT from July 2022. The CCPT provides a common framework for the classification of climate risk-related exposures of financial institutions to support risk assessments and encourage financial flows towards greening the economy.
JC3 members also reviewed the progress of work undertaken to develop reference guides on climate risk management and scenario analysis, and climate-related disclosures. The JC3 expects to publish the reference guides in the fourth quarter this year. Concurrently, work will be undertaken by the JC3 to produce relevant localised reference climate scenarios for Malaysia1 to improve the understanding of the physical and transition impact of climate change under different climate pathways. This in turn will support risk assessments, better alignment of business strategies with climate targets, and climate-related disclosures by financial institutions. Members further discussed plans for the mandatory climate-related financial disclosures by financial institutions. Further details on these plans will be released by year-end.
The workplan of the newly established Sub-committee on Bridging Data Gaps was endorsed at the meeting. JC3 members supported the prioritisation of the initial use cases by the Sub-committee, which include data to support investment and lending decisions, macroeconomic modelling, stress testing, scenario analysis and product development. For the use cases, the Sub-committee will work with key public and private sector partners to identify critical data needs and map them to relevant data sources. The Sub-committee will create a catalogue of climate data that can be accessed by the financial sector.
The JC3 continues to actively collaborate and engage with the business community to support the financing needs of corporates and their supply chains in their transition to sustainable practices. The JC3 also continues to deepen its engagements with Government ministries and agencies to promote alignment of financial sector policies and strategies in support of a 'whole of nation' approach towards an orderly transition. Members discussed the recently launched Kuala Lumpur Climate Action Plan 2050 and agreed to engage with the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) to explore the opportunities for the financial sector in addressing the sustainable financing needs of the city. Members also agreed to nominate JC3 representatives to the CEO Action Network (CAN), a coalition of corporate and SME CEOs committed to catalysing and accelerating adoption of sustainable practices in corporate Malaysia and the business ecosystem.
Following the successful organisation of the virtual JC3 Flagship Conference 'Finance for Change' in June 2021, the JC3 has published a report on the key insights, discussions and calls to action from the conference, which can be found here.
Bank Negara Malaysia
Securities Commission Malaysia
3 August 2021
About the JC3
The JC3 is a platform established in September 2019 to pursue collaborative actions for building climate resilience within the Malaysia financial sector. The JC3 is co-chaired by Jessica Chew Cheng Lian, Deputy Governor Bank Negara Malaysia and Datuk Zainal Izlan Zainal Abidin, Deputy Chief Executive Securities Commission Malaysia with members comprising senior officials from Bursa Malaysia and 19 financial industry players as well as relevant experts. The JC3's initiatives and priorities are undertaken by its five sub-committees, namely Risk Management; Governance and Disclosure; Product and Innovation; Engagement and Capacity Building; and Bridging Data Gaps.
1 JC3 will build on the Central Banks and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) scenarios and country specific analysis.
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03 Aug 2021
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