ECB: Lagarde warns: “Costs of climate change are rising and shocks may be more difficult to cushion”

ECB President Christine Lagarde warned that the economic costs of climate change are rising and that future shocks may be harder for the economy to absorb, according to the headline reported by Handelsblatt. The transmission channel for markets runs mainly through inflation expectations and the ECB's policy reaction function: climate-linked supply shocks, such as crop failures, energy disruptions, and extreme-weather damage to infrastructure, can push up prices in ways that complicate the central bank's ability to ease without re-accelerating inflation. Euro-area government bonds, particularly those of climate-vulnerable southern and Mediterranean sovereigns, along with the euro itself, are the assets most exposed, since higher risk premia and a less predictable policy path can widen spreads and shift rate-differential expectations. Equity sectors tied to agriculture, insurance, utilities, and energy are also sensitive to repricing of physical-risk exposure. Traders should watch the next euro-area flash HICP release and any ECB staff projections or climate-stress-test publications for signs of whether climate-related effects are being built into the inflation and growth outlook.

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