Tag: Finance

Seminar: “Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance”

The Global Development Policy Center, the Institute for Sustainable Energy, and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future invite you to a talk by Frank Ackerman about his latest book, Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance. Ackerman, Principal Economist at Synapse Energy and Research Fellow at the Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI), will […]

“A climate stress-test of the financial system” published in Nature Climate Change

Climate change brings new risks for financial investments, but the impact of climate policies on the financial system has remained unclear so far. Several organizations, including the G20 Financial Stability Board, have called for improving both data and methodologies to better disclose the climate risks faced by public and private investors in financial markets. An […]

COP22 Side Event: Disentangling the Climate-Finance Nexus

Irene Monasterolo, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, will be co-hosting and participating in a side event at the UN climate change conference in Marrakech. The event, titled “Disentangling the Climate-Finance Nexus: Methods for 2°C alignment and climate stress-tests for institutional investors and development banks,” […]