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''Environmental policy and concerns.''  
''Bank supervision - capital adequacy''.


Carbon offsetting generally means buying carbon credits equivalent to the carbon impact before offsetting.
(RWAs).


This means compensating for every tonne of carbon dioxide emitted by ensuring there is one tonne less in the atmosphere in another place.
Risk Weighted Assets provide a measure of the total scale and risk of a regulated bank's activities, against which the bank is required to hold minimum levels of regulatory capital.




Carbon offsetting can also refer to other more direct activities, such as planting trees, as well as paying for carbon credits.
In simple terms, assets are multiplied by appropriate risk weightings - historically ranging from 0% to 100% depending on the level of risk - and aggregated.


Other risks, including operational risk and off balance sheet risk, are also appropriately evaluated and risk weighted, adding additional RWAs to the regulatory total.


== See also ==
 
* [[Carbon]]
The calculation of RWAs has been increasingly refined over time.
* [[Carbon tax]]
 
* [[Carbon credits]]
Risk weights may, in some cases, be derived from individual banks' own internal risk models, subject to the regulator's approval.
* [[Carbon footprint]]
 
* [[Carbon-neutral]]
Other risk weightings are determined on a standardised basis for all banks.
* [[Corporate social responsibility]]
 
* [[Emissions]]
 
* [[Environmental concerns]]
Also known as ''total risk weighted exposure''.
* [[Greenhouse gas]]
 
* [[Net zero]]
 
* [[Renewables]]
==See also==
* [[Residual carbon]]
*[[Bank supervision]]
* [[Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting]]
*[[Basel 3.1]]
*[[Capital]]
*[[Capital adequacy]]
*[[CET1 ratio]]
*[[Credit Conversion Factor]] (CCF)
*[[Off balance sheet risk]]
*[[Operational risk]]
*[[Pillar 1]]
*[[Total capital ratio]]


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[[Category:Ethics]]
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Revision as of 22:57, 28 February 2023

Bank supervision - capital adequacy.

(RWAs).

Risk Weighted Assets provide a measure of the total scale and risk of a regulated bank's activities, against which the bank is required to hold minimum levels of regulatory capital.


In simple terms, assets are multiplied by appropriate risk weightings - historically ranging from 0% to 100% depending on the level of risk - and aggregated.

Other risks, including operational risk and off balance sheet risk, are also appropriately evaluated and risk weighted, adding additional RWAs to the regulatory total.


The calculation of RWAs has been increasingly refined over time.

Risk weights may, in some cases, be derived from individual banks' own internal risk models, subject to the regulator's approval.

Other risk weightings are determined on a standardised basis for all banks.


Also known as total risk weighted exposure.


See also