Bank lending volumes have also been on a continuous upward trend, though they remain relatively weak: in January this year lending to households grew at the fastest rate since May 2011 – 2.2% on an annualised basis – while corporate lending, as in December, grew by 2.3%, its highest reading since 2009.
Examples of both international and European for a, where we are working together with other actors, include initiatives under the auspices of the G20, where the New Data Gaps Initiative includes, as part of its four main statistical and data priorities, work on climate data as well as, here in Europe, similar work by the Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics on sustainable finance and climate related risks.