Senior management at a global manufacturer of commercial flooring explores strategies to reduce capital costs and improve company valuation, resulting in a comprehensive sustainability strategy. Management determines all future flooring products will be carbon neutral across their full product life cycle. The risk team is tasked with updating the company ERM framework in accordance with COSO guidelines to include ESG and climate-related risks. The team reviews and updates each of the ERM components.
What action should the team recommend the company take as part of the communication component of the ERM framework?
Answer : D
The board of directors of a growing asset management firm recommends the firm expand its ERM framework to incorporate climate risks. In response, the risk team references the COSO ERM framework for applying ESG-related risks to develop and propose a strategy to implement climate risk into the various ERM components.
How will the risk team modify the existing strategy component of the company’s ERM framework?
Answer : D
A pension fund climate risk analyst evaluates the company portfolio under different climate scenarios. The analyst identifies technological advancements and activities that must occur at a global scale to realize each scenario outcome.
Under a 1.5°C degree scenario, what development must occur?
Answer : B
An industry association in Germany surveys members on business alignment with nationally determined contributions (NDCs). The association members express concern about potential cascading legal repercussions or penalties if governments do not conform to Paris Agreement pledges. An attorney at the association researches this issue and sends a memo to members.
The memo should state the Paris Agreement legally obliges signatories to take what action?
Answer : B
A diversified industrial company embarks on a climate transition strategy to invest in a more fuel-efficient airline fleet. To finance the investment, the CSO analyzes sustainable finance instruments and recommends instruments most suitable to issue.
Which of the following financial instruments should the CSO recommend and why?
Answer : C
A Central American country signs the Paris Agreement to align actions and policies to keep global temperature rise below 1.5°C. The country’s environmental agency develops a nationally determined contribution plan that includes domestic, economy-wide, and sector-specific policies. The power generation sector is most comprehensively covered by the plan.
Which policy included in the plan targets the power generation sector?
Answer : B
A multinational food and beverage corporation has growing concerns that CO2 and other GHGs in the atmosphere have a negative effect on agricultural productivity. The corporation is subject to higher costs and scarce availability for commodities necessary for its supply chain.
The corporation will disclose this scenario under which climate-related risk type?
Answer : B
A recent sustainability report revealed the pension fund of a small European nation is heavily invested in sectors with poor sustainability records. In response to pensioner and other stakeholder requests, the fund joins the PRI.
What strategy must the fund incorporate to comply with the PRI?
Answer : B
The CRO of an automobile manufacturer in North America prepares a keynote address on risks in the auto sector over the next decade. The CRO highlights the primary technology risks facing its line of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles.
At approximately what point will many manufacturers of ICE vehicles experience a significant technology risk?
Answer : D
A public policy think tank releases a report on global decarbonization pathways. The report describes the relative contribution of each GHG to modern climate change and recommends focusing global efforts on CO2 reduction.
Why would the think tank make this recommendation?
Answer : C
An investment management firm signs a net zero asset management initiative. An analyst engages with client companies to encourage adoption of targets that align with Paris Agreement goals. The analyst provides clients with a guide explaining the principles and protocols unique to the Paris Agreement.
How will the analyst most likely describe the feature that distinguishes the Paris Agreement?
Answer : C
A large real estate investment firm increases resources to understand transition and physical risks as it expands into markets with climate regulations and increasing flooding events. Senior leadership requires the risk team train all business units in understanding how both climate risks can impact operations.
During this process, how should the risk team define commonalities between both risks?
Answer : D
A private equity fund invests in infrastructure development and agro-industrial projects. The fund hires a team of climate risk consultants to advise on investment structure and the potential climate risks to the fund. The team recommends data types and analytical tools to evaluate physical and transition risk impact at the company level.
How should the company evaluate company-level physical risk?
Answer : B
A European bank considers investing in an offshore wind farm project. A bank ESG analyst assists in the origination and execution of green and sustainable finance transactions to finance the project. The analyst recommends a loan to finance the project by gathering related materials on sustainability-linked loans (SLLs), green loans, and corresponding market trends.
Which of the following loans is the analyst likely to recommend?
Answer : D
An environmental agency for a southeast Asian nation increases funding to study historic climate change and its impacts. The agency funds a proposal for a scientific subject matter expert to conduct a large-scale study of the nation’s tree rings.
What information will this study most likely reveal?
Answer : A
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