1 June 2026

On 1 June 2026, the Business School's Nature Finance Lab launched its Frontiers in Nature Finance series with an afternoon on climate, nature and credit risk and the challenges they pose for the UK banking sector. The event was run in collaboration with the Credit Research Centre, with support from Edinburgh Innovation, and hosted in partnership with the Bank of England.

After an introduction from Professor Raffaella Calabrese, Benjamin Guin of the Bank of England spoke on green mortgage innovation, and his colleague Mahmoud Fatouh on how biodiversity interacts with default risk in the UK mortgage market. Scott Harrison of Experian looked at how banks can source and act on climate and nature risk data, Douglas Phillips of Arup gave an overview of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, and Christopher Sterley of True North Partners spoke on advancing climate risk models to capture nature risk. Viani Djeundje Biatat of the Credit Research Centre presented research on wildfires, weather, mortgage defaults and capital.

The afternoon closed with a panel discussion and a summary from Peter Baker of Edinburgh Innovations.