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"Une étude récente du groupe de réflexion EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact indique que les valeurs boursières mondiales pourraient subir de graves pertes si des mesures énergiques ne sont pas prises pour lutter contre le changement climatique. Le rapport de 74 pages, publié mercredi, souligne les risques financiers potentiels associés au changement climatique, notamment les dommages physiques et les coûts de transition qui pourraient avoir une incidence importante sur la valeur des actions. (...)
"Les décideurs devraient mettre en œuvre des politiques agressives pour maîtriser le changement climatique s'ils veulent éviter des pertes de valeur des actions mondiales qui pourraient atteindre 50 %, a averti le groupe de réflexion EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact dans un document de 74 pages publié mercredi.(...)
"L’agence de rating américaine va progressivement abandonner son activité de notation ESG, celle-là même qu’elle avait acquise en rachetant le français Vigeo en 2019. Une décision qui devrait avoir d’importantes répercussions sur les investisseurs responsables. (...)
“Moody's impending exit from the ESG ratings space could accelerate consolidation within the ESG ratings sector, put upward pressure on prices, and leave a gap in the market, according to users. (...)
"(...) L'impact de ces politiques d'investissement sur la capacité de financement des entreprises du secteur pétrolier est difficile à mesurer précisément, étant donné la multiplicité des facteurs en jeu. D'autant que sur le marché secondaire, lorsqu'un investisseur vend son action, un autre l'achète, ce qui limite la pression à la baisse sur le cours du titre. Néanmoins, la recherche académique tend à valider l'hypothèse d'un impact. "Les travaux théoriques font le lien explicite entre le développement de l'investissement verts d'un côté et l'évolution du coût du capital et/ou de l'activité des industries polluantes de l'autre, et les résultats empiriques sont cohérents avec les prédictions des modèles" note Frédéric Ducoulombier, directeur de Climate Impact Institute.
"Faced with the uncertainties surrounding climate change, policymakers and investors need to know what can happen and how likely these outcomes may be. Unfortunately, current scenarios answer only the first question – and at that, only partially. Research carried out at the EDHEC Risk Climate Institute tries to provide approximate but “actionable” answers to the second. (...)
" (...)The new plan outlines the school’s actions through 2028 with an eye to the year 2050 – a milestone for both the planet and EDHEC itself. 2050 is the target year set by many governments, scientists, and organizations to reach net-zero carbon emissions or risk grave climate consequences. 2050 is also the year that babies born in the next four years will come to and graduate from EDHEC.
" (...)Conviene a un’azienda finanziarsi con un green bond? La risposta è sì perché c’è il greenium. Quest’ultimo non è altro che il prezzo più alto che gli investitori sono disposti a pagare per un’obbligazione verde rispetto a quelle tradizionali. Differenza di prezzo che può oscillare tra i 4,5 e 5 punti base a condizione, però, che vi sia la second party opinion ovvero la validazione di una società terza indipendente. Tutto ciò emerge da uno studio realizzato da quattro professori universitari che hanno analizzato 3mila green bond. I prof in questione sono Marco Ghitti (Università di Padova), Gianfranco Gianfrate e Marco Spinelli (Edhec) e Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes (Nber). (...)
"(...)Un obstáculo para definir el lavado verde – greenwashing – es que la mayoría de los informes de desempeño ambiental son voluntarios y no están auditados. El profesor Gianfrate espera que sean necesarias dos décadas o más de resistencia, lobby y compromiso antes de que se pueda implementar adecuadamente un sistema adecuado de presentación de informes con sanciones y castigos.
"Riccardo Rebonato, professor at EDHEC Business School doesn't believe climate change will trigger a Minsky moment, he explains why investors should still be wary of current valuations
"(...)Opponents of mandatory Scope 3 emissions reporting, who say that it is “unfeasible” or “too costly”, are “confusing the symptoms for the cause”, says a report by France-based academic think-tank the EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute. (...)
"The role of business in the global effort to combat climate change is becoming increasingly essential. And for good reason: since the start of the industrial revolution, more than two thirds of global emissions have been produced by large companies.
"(...)avant toute chose, les entreprises doivent évaluer leurs émissions directes et indirectes de carbone, qu’elles proviennent de leurs propres sources, de leur consommation d’énergie, des opérations de leur chaîne d’approvisionnement ou de la gestion des déchets. Par « émissions directes » on désigne celles qui résultent de sources détenues ou contrôlées par l’entreprise, comme les émissions produites lors de la combustion dans les chaudières d’une entreprise ou de son parc automobile. Les émissions indirectes proviennent de la consommation d’énergie achetée par l’entreprise, comme l’électricité, la chaleur ou le froid. Enfin, d’autres émissions indirectes sont issues de la chaîne d’approvisionnement, lors du transport des matériaux ou de l’élimination des déchets. (...)
"In this EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute issue of Research for Institutional Money Management, we present groundbreaking research extending climate scenario analysis.
"(...)La nébuleuse autour du scope 3 tarde à s’éclaircir. Dans un nouveau rapport publié ce 28 mars, l’EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute dresse un état des lieux à 360° sur la prise en compte des émissions de gaz à effet de serre de scope 3, qui concernent toute la chaîne de valeur d’une entreprise. Malgré une importante hausse de ces publications volontaires, l'étude constate que les rapports “restent trop souvent un exercice de greenwashing, sont incomplets et ciblent peu les sources matérielles”. Cela, alors que ces données restent encore “naïvement” utilisées par les gérants d’actifs. Un manque de précaution que relevait en juin dernier l’Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) après un contrôle SPOT relatif aux données extra-financières.(...)
" EDHEC Business School in France announced this week (March 18) the launch of a new MBA, 100% online. It will have two intakes per year, the first beginning this fall with another in spring. Each will enroll about 20 students.(...)
" (...)These courses and certifications have been designed to teach the principles and concepts of sustainable finance and ESG Investing and help you become a leader in the field.(...)
" (...)«Se Donald Trump vincerà la corsa alla presidenza degli Stati Uniti penso che potrebbe fare un passo deciso nel divieto a investire in modalità Esg – afferma Gianfranco Gianfrate, docente di finanza all’Edhec Business School in Francia –. Alcune grandi società di asset management hanno annusato l’aria e hanno deciso di riposizionarsi». Si spiega così la fuga dalle alleanze contro il climate change di alcuni grandi gruppi finanziari. Decisioni che hanno mandato in frantumi, in particolare, la Net Zero Insurance Alliance, passata da 30 a 11 componenti.La stessa ClimateAction100+ sta perdendo pezzi. Non sembra, per ora, mostrare segni di crisi la Nzba, l’alleanza per il Net-Zero creata dagli istituti bancari. (...)
"The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved major new rules on climate disclosure yesterday, but experts say they won’t be enough to satisfy investor demand for sustainability information. (...)
“ (...) Corporates urgently need to get their own houses in order – to determine and then begin reducing the emissions they have direct control over,” Ofir Eyal, director at consultancy Marakon, said in statement. “It’s been a case of willing procrastination for too many businesses, which have used the complexity involved in calculating Scope 3 emissions as an excuse for delaying the development of a meaningful strategy to reduce their direct emissions.
"The US Securities and Exchange Commission has voted to adopt the country’s first federal requirements for public companies to disclose information on their climate-related risks and greenhouse gas emissions.
" A groundbreaking White Paper titled “Climate Scenario Analysis and Stress Testing for Investors: A Probabilistic Approach,” authored by Professor Rebonato and his team, has introduced an innovative method for augmenting climate scenarios with probabilistic information. This approach is set to revolutionize how financial professionals assess and manage climate-related risks.(...)
" (...) Investor advocacy for value-chain emissions (Scope 3) reporting and its possible incorporation within a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) climate-disclosure rule have sparked fierce resistance from fossil-fuel interests. (...)
"Jean-Michel Maeso und Dominic O’Kane vom EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute haben in einem Research Paper den Einfluss von (unerwarteten) klimawandelbezogenen News auf die Performance von Aktienportfolios untersucht. Mit neun verschiedenen Language-Modellen und fünf englischsprachigen Zeitungen, darunter Financial Times and New York Times, konstruieren die Autoren je einen Climate News Index (CNI) sowie einen über alle Quellen aggregierten Index. (...)
" (...)„Wir freuen uns sehr über diese Auszeichnung. Sie macht unsere wissenschaftliche Arbeit weltweit noch sichtbarer und zeigt auch, dass die Universität Ulm zu den Top-Standorten auf dem Gebiet der Aktuarwissenschaften gehört“, so Professorin An Chen, die an der Universität Ulm das Institut für Versicherungswissenschaften leitet. Die international renommierte Wissenschaftlerin forscht zu versicherungswirtschaftlichen Fragen mit dem Schwerpunkt Altersvorsorge. Besonders im Fokus: Lebensversicherungen und Pensionssysteme. Dr. Fangyuan Zhang kam über das Double Degree Programm „Master of Finance“ von der renommierten chinesischen Fudan Universität an die Universität Ulm und schloss hier 2022 ihre Promotion ab.
" (...) The Institute’s research looking at Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy (DICE) models concluded they have been inappropriately used for scenario analysis. As a result Professor Rebonato and his team are developing a solution that attaches approximate probabilities to climate scenarios in an effort to reflect the uncertainty of making investment decisions based on climate change. (...)
"(...) The scenarios most investors are using were ultimately created for the purpose of policymakers, but not for the use of investors to assist with decision-making, warned Riccardo Rebonato, scientific director of the Risk Climate Impact Institute at the EDHEC Business School in Nice. (...)
" Riccardo Rebonato vom EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute untersucht in einem Research Paper, ob Klimarisiken hinreichend in Aktienkursen eskomptiert sind und welche Risiken bei mangelhafter Einpreisung bestehen. Die Ergebnisse bisheriger Studien, ob die Risiken des Klimawandelns in Aktienkursen berücksichtigt werden, sind uneindeutig und wenig robust. Es scheint, dass Asset-Preise, wenn überhaupt, nur in geringem Maße von Klima-Informationen beeinflusst werden. (...)"
" (...) Investors need to know what is a reasonable central estimate, and what is the spread of possible outcomes. The two potential issues here that must be reiterated are a lack of communication of the degree of uncertainty, and the ‘low-balling’ effect on risk stemming from the inappropriate use of an outdated model.
"A recent position paper from EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute has raised significant concerns about the misleading nature of climate-risk advice given to pension funds, particularly those under the UK Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS). The paper, titled “Portfolio Losses from Climate Damages: A Guide for Long-Term Investors,” authored by Professor Riccardo Rebonato, Scientific Director at the institute, critically examines the advice provided to pension trustees and its implications. (...)
"The EDHEC Climate Risk Institute report found consultants routinely underestimate the financial impact of climate change even at extreme temperature rises with a “puzzling degree of accuracy”. If the investment consultancy sector has been soft on climate in exact measures down to the “hundredth of percentage point”, doom-centric forecasts at the other end of the scale are equally unreliable for financial modelling, the paper says. Instead, pension funds (and other asset allocators) would be better-served by “a clear description of the huge degree of uncertainty surrounding the impact of climate change on asset returns. (...)
"An EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute position paper, Portfolio Losses from Climate Damages, has warned that markets and investors are underestimating potential climate damages. It pointed to reporting by UK Local Government Pension Scheme authorities on their governance and management of climate risks. Drawing on investment consultants’ advice, reports have included simulations of climate impacts on investments that suggest portfolios would be marginally impacted – even in high temperatures. The paper, written by the institute’s scientific director Riccardo Rebonato, argued that pension trustees have been “poorly served” by consultants, meaning their estimates of portfolio losses due to climate change are “implausibly tame”.
"In a new position paper, Riccardo Rebonato, who is scientific director of EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute, said EDHEC agreed that pension fund trustees have been poorly served by their consultants and that the models that have been used underestimate climate risk. However, he said that the models (DICE-like Integrated Assessment Models) should not be jettisoned as they can be modified to handle scenario analysis (for which they were not designed) and that it is incorrect to posit that there is an economist consensus on the severity of climate damages.
"Professor Riccardo Rebonato, scientific director of the EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute, has said that pension trustees had been poorly served by their consultants and the estimates of likely portfolio losses due to climate change in their authorities’ reports were ‘implausibly tame’. His research further exposed the failure to communicate the huge uncertainty in damage estimates as the most glaring flaw of the advice received by trustees and denounced the non-sensical precision with which some of these estimates were presented.
" Sustainable Finance als Oberbegriff für die Finanzierung nachhaltiger Technologien und die ökologisch-soziale Transformation der Realwirtschaft hat sich ebenfalls einen festen Platz auf der Agenda erobert. Leider ist es auch komplexer und vielschichtiger geworden und es scheint, dass vor lauter Regulationsanforderungen die realen Aktivitäten kaum nachziehen können. So entsteht vielfach der Eindruck, dass die konkrete Wirkung der als nachhaltig bezeichneten Investments nicht wirklich den proklamierten Anforderungen entspricht."
"In a newly released position paper, "Portfolio Losses from Climate Damages: A Guide for Long-Term Investors," Professor Riccardo Rebonato, Scientific Director of the EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute, discusses the (de)merits of the advice addressed to pension trustees and engages with critics who assert that pensions are being put at risk by the flawed research and groupthink of climate economists. His research concludes that pension trustees have indeed been poorly served by their consultants. He also concurs with critics' views that the estimates of likely portfolio losses due to climate change in the authorities' reports are implausibly tame.
"Les premières mesures prises par les investisseurs institutionnels pour décarboner leurs portefeuilles commencent à porter leurs fruits. Mais pour tenir leurs promesses de neutralité à horizon 2050, ils doivent désormais approfondir et systématiser leurs approches. Ils cherchent, souvent collectivement, les bons outils pour faire basculer leurs portefeuilles vers des stratégies alignées sur l’Accord de Paris."
"Le 1er janvier prochain, le secteur financier suisse devra être prêt à mettre en place les directives de l’Association suisse des banquiers (ASB) et de l’association représentant la gestion d’actifs en Suisse, l’AMAS, concernant la finance durable. Ces directives ont pour objectifs de limiter l’écoblanchiment (ou greenwashing) et de prendre en compte l’appétence de leurs clients concernant la durabilité de leurs investissements."
"How far could investing in a low-carbon benchmark crimp returns? Not much. That’s according to a new paper by two Amundi quants, who find that tilting benchmarks such as the S&P 500 away from ‘dirty’ stocks in favour of less-polluting companies has a negligible impact on annual returns. The paper aims to address what one of the report’s co-authors, Hamza Bahaji, calls a key question among passive investors about sustainable investing: “What is the expected cost of decarbonisation?”."
"EDHEC just took an oversized step toward that goal. This month, it announced a new €40 million investment fund for socially and environmentally responsible startups. GENERATIONS Powered by EDHEC will be co-managed by Ring Capital, a private equity firm dedicated to supporting companies that have positive impact in their communities and the world, and will focus on seed and pre-seed startups."
"L’ex-patron de Danone a fustigé dans une tribune l’approche européenne en matière de comptabilité extra-financière. Chercheur à l’Edhec, Frédéric Ducoulombier réfute ses arguments.
"Sa charge, plutôt violente, contre le projet européen a vivement fait réagir certains experts en comptabilité environnementale et en finance durable. Ces derniers pointent ainsi le rôle que peuvent jouer les parties prenantes non financières dans la mise en évidence d'un problème extra-financier et donc l'importance de ne pas passer sous silence des enjeux qui n'intéressent pas encore les marchés. « Une question ESG peut devenir si rapidement matérielle d'un point de vue financier qu'elle peut causer la faillite d'une entreprise qui la traitait comme sans danger pour elle », met en garde Frédéric Ducoulombier, directeur de l'EDHEC Risk Impact Institute. La plaidoirie d'Emmanuel Faber n'a finalement pas fait dévier les eurodéputés du cap fixé par la CSRD.
"In an op-ed published by French reference newspaper Le Monde* earlier this week, Emmanuel Faber, chair of the IFRS Foundation’s International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), represents that the double-materiality approach to sustainability reporting is a simplistic concept whose popularity derives from a “triple illusion”.
"Riccardo Rebonato dives deep into the challenges posed by climate change, especially for investors, policymakers, and regulators. The uniqueness of the current climate crisis stems from its unprecedented nature, and the lack of historical data, which often is the backbone for most financial and risk assessment models.
"Hydrogen is a versatile tool for decarbonising the energy system, but its role will vary depending on a country’s existing infrastructure, Arnold said, countries with well-developed gas and oil infrastructure, such as the Netherlands and the UK, are in a good position to deploy hydrogen for a variety of uses. Countries with less developed infrastructure may need to focus on more specific applications, such as synthetic fuels or the chemical industry.
