European Banking Authority: banks’ exposures to sectors that significantly contribute to climate change remained elevated at around 62%
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published the latest edition of its ESG risk dashboard, integrating data up to the second quarter of 2025. The dashboard reflects the latest changes in banks ‘exposures to climate risks and aims to provide background information to support institutions and authorities in managing these risks. The new release confirms continued stability across major climate related risk indicators, broadly in line with the patterns observed in previous updates.
Banks’ exposures to sectors that significantly contribute to climate change remained elevated at around 62%, reflecting the importance of climate-sensitive industries in their non-financial corporate portfolios, warranting continuous efforts to develop and maintain robust climate risk management tools and monitoring frameworks.
Environmental data quality continued to improve. Exposures secured by immovable property showed strong energy-efficiency scores, while banks’ reliance on proxy indicators has declined by approximately 10 percentage points since December 2023, signalling better data coverage and more reliable sustainability assessments.
Physical risk metrics remained heterogeneous across jurisdictions, likely due to methodological differences among institutions. This variability highlights the inherent complexity of measuring physical risk across diverse European geographies and datasets.
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With this edition, the ESG Risk Dashboard becomes part of the Data Access Portal (EDAP), the EBA’s central hub for supervisory data in the EU/EEA. Publishing the Dashboard within EDAP represents a major step forward in transparency and accessibility, enabling users to access all supervisory data tools in a single, integrated environment.
The ESG dashboard presents data from a representative sample of nearly 120 large EU/EEA banks, aggregating exposures and risk indicators at both country and anonymised bank level. The sample includes banks reporting under Pillar 3 ESG disclosure requirements, ensuring comparability across institutions.
Following the issuance of the EBA no-action letter on 5 August 2025 (LINK) , the charts under the “Taxonomy Alignment” and “Beyond the GAR/BTAR” tabs have not been updated beyond Q4 2024 data.
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