All these developments will enable official statisticians to improve the availability and comparability of climaterelated data. Only harmonised definitions and standards make it possible to produce diverse statistical indicators and yet be assured that the data source confirms to a common framework. This has an obvious advantage in that it will allow the combination of variables from different sources.
One factor is the accumulation in the financial sector of very high levels of risk and leverage, along with excessive reliance on unstable short-term funding.