AIIB warns climate inaction could downgrade a third of sovereign borrowers by 2050
More than a third of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s (AIIB) sovereign borrowers could face credit rating downgrades by 2050 if global climate policy fails to strengthen, the Beijing-based multilateral lender said in a report. Under a current policy scenario – in which existing climate rules remain unchanged and global temperature rises by around 2.9 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels – nearly 34 per cent of the bank’s sovereign portfolio would suffer downgrades, according to the...
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