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title: Simple Climate Stress Testing
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5130573/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 5130573
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5130573
featured: 2025-02-19
citations: unknown
topic: Risk, Credit & Banking
---


# Simple Climate Stress Testing

The BKMN model is presented to help financial institutions perform climate stress tests, connecting temperature and CO2 prices to financial market effects.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5130573
- Identifier: SSRN 5130573
- Released: 2025-02-10
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 85 (2025-02-19): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-02-19/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Risk, Credit & Banking

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