Circular No.: 8/2025
Date: 08/07/2025
To: All Banks and Insurance Companies
Subject: Climate-related Financial Risk Management Regulation`
1. The UAE has taken a series of measures in line with its commitment to addressing climate change, including ratifying the Paris Agreement in 2016, developing the UAE Green Agenda 2015-2030, the UAE's Net Zero by 2050 strategic initiative and the National Climate Change Plan (2017-2050) among other sectoral strategies and policies.
2. The Central Bank promotes the effective and efficient development and functioning of the financial sector in the UAE. In November 2023, the Central Bank issued the Principles for the Effective Management of Climate-related Financial Risks ("the Principles"). and the Sustainability-related Disclosure Principles in June 2024, to enhance the regulatory framework for, and set out the Central Bank's direction on, climate risk and sustainability disclosure practices in the financial sector of the UAE.
3. Following on from this, the Central Bank is now issuing this Regulation, establishing an overarching framework for Climate-related Financial Risk m...