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Our climate change strategy

We released our climate change strategy in 2018. The strategy outlines how we can help to identify, understand and manage climate-related risks to New Zealand's financial system.

Published:

28 February 2022

Updated:

19 May 2023

To understand and help mitigate the risks to our objectives and core functions associated with both the physical impacts of climate change and the risks from transitioning to a low-carbon economy, we have developed our climate change strategy.

Our climate change strategy's 3 focus areas

Getting our house in order

Monitoring and managing our impacts on climate change.

Getting the settings in place

Mainstreaming climate change considerations into our core functions.

Showing the way

Providing leadership as an institution and working in collaboration with the global regulatory community.

Climate Changed 2021 and Beyond - The Reserve Bank Climate Change Report

This report lays out how and why climate is core to our mandate, the risks of climate to our core functions, what we have done so far and our future plans.

Read our report

Climate Changed 2021 and Beyond - The Reserve Bank Climate Change Report