The public costs of climate-induced financial instability

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 29 October 2019; doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0607-5

Increasingly, financial institutions will be exposed to climate risks that will exacerbate the negative economic impacts of climate change. An agent-based integrated assessment model is used to analyse climate impacts on the global banking system, finding an increase in banking crises and public bailout costs.