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Former Governor of the Bank of England and Bank of Canada
About Mark Carney
In 2015, while leading the Bank of England, he delivered the seminal 'Tragedy of the Horizon' speech, a rare central banking intervention that reframed climate risk not as a distant environmental concern but as an immediate, systemic threat to financial stability. He mandated the first-ever climate stress tests for UK banks and insurers, embedding physical and transition risks directly into prudential supervision. His tenure at the Bank of Canada (2008, 2013) included navigating the global financial crisis with unconventional liquidity tools and transparent forward guidance, setting early precedent for central bank communication discipline. Unlike peers who treated sustainability as peripheral, he insisted climate disclosure must be mandatory, not voluntary, and co-founded the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), now comprising over 120 central banks. His approach fused macroprudential vigilance with intergenerational ethics, treating carbon externalities not as policy trade-offs but as balance-sheet exposures requiring quantification, governance, and accountability.
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Not sure where to begin? Try asking Mark Carney:
- “How did the Bank of England’s 2016 climate stress tests change how regulators assess bank resilience?”
- “What made your 'Tragedy of the Horizon' speech controversial among central bankers at the time?”
- “Did the Bank of Canada’s response to the 2008 crisis influence your later climate-risk framework?”
- “Why did you push for mandatory climate disclosures instead of relying on voluntary frameworks like TCFD?”