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" 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 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.
"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.
" 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.
"Corporate reporting on sustainability matters is grossly inadequate. Despite clarifications by global accounting and auditing bodies, discussion and quantification of financially material sustainability risks and opportunities remain largely absent from statutory financial reporting. And, owing to the lack of legally binding standards pertaining to non-financial reporting, companies selectively disclose information in sustainability reports to weave self-serving narratives that too often bear little relation to their actual impacts.
"Climate change stands as one of the most pressing challenges of our time, a reality that demands collective action across disciplines and sectors. Amidst this backdrop, the prestigious EDHEC Business School has launched a transformative educational program focused on Climate Change and Sustainable Investing. The initiative, already with a remarkable enrollment of over 10,000 learners, not only epitomizes the influential role of education in fostering sustainable practices but also highlights the crucial contribution of finance in combating climate change. The Climate Change and Sustainable Investing program by EDHEC stands as a testament to the power of education in fostering sustainable practices.
"Corporate reporting on sustainability matters is grossly inadequate. Despite clarifications by global accounting and auditing bodies, discussion and quantification of financially material sustainability risks and opportunities remain largely absent from statutory financial reporting. And, owing to the lack of legally binding standards pertaining to non-financial reporting, companies selectively disclose information in sustainability reports to weave self-serving narratives that too often bear little relationship to their actual impacts".
"Corporate finance departments and auditors have only recently begun to consider how to weigh ESG risks, said Frederic Ducoulombier, director of the EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute. That makes full disclosure critical, he said. The 50,000 companies that will eventually have to report under CSRD “are not used to the exercise,” Ducoulombier said. “The accounting and auditing profession also needs to radically scale up. Sustainability assurance is still in infancy and has abetted sustainability washing".
"In its comments on the regulations to the European Commission in early July, the EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute also criticised them for not observing the same standards as other European sustainability reporting regulations. It urged the regulators to “require all climate-related disclosures from all reporting entities”, and if materiality is an issue, at least require entities to declare why they deemed some issues material or not".
"EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute has welcomed the preservation of the double materiality principle and broad coverage of ESG issues but has, however, expressed concerns about the availability and quality of disclosures, following the recent announcement regarding the European Commission’s adoption of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).
"The scientific director of the EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute and a professor of finance, tells Andrew Holt about why he is encouraged by efforts to address climate change, but says institutional investors should move from ‘canned scenarios’ and raises issues about carbon removal".
"La sustainability, le développement durable et inclusif, est au cœur de la stratégie de l’Edhec. « Nous voulons devenir l’un des leaders, sinon le leader, de la finance climatique avec un centre de recherche maintenant bien implanté à Nice et Londres. Les marchés se sont un peu endormis et ne mesurent pas encore très bien les impacts financiers du changement climatique », établit encore Emmanuel Métais dont le centre de recherche sur les infrastructures intègre également ces dimensions. Un centre qui se développe avec la vente d’indices qui permettent de mieux calibrer les investissements et gérer les impacts environnementaux".
"The ISSB’s approach focuses solely on single materiality, or how sustainable factors relate to the financial value of a business, as Frédéric Ducoulombier, director at the EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute explains: “We remain solidly in the realm of single materiality - the progress achieved is thus in the standardisation of the metrics".
C'est quoi, la finance durable? La finance, c'est des milliers de milliards de dollars qui sont investis tout autour du monde. Et ce qu'on veut c'est que ces milliers de milliards de dollars soit orientés de manière à lutter contre le changement climatique. A l'Edhec, c'est un centre de recherche : 20 millions d'euros qu'on va dépenser sur les cinq prochaines années pour avoir des chercheurs sur nos campus de Nice, de Londres et de Singapour, qui vont essayer de bien comprendre d'une part, l'influence du changement climatique sur la finance et, d'autre part, comment la finance peut avoir un impact positif sur le changement".
"Assigning probabilities to the socio-economic narratives is very difficult. But if we are interested in their climate consequences, these narratives ultimately translate into paths for economic growth, emissions and technological development." (...) We know less about these factors than we would like. But we do have some information about economic growth; on how technological barriers limit the speed with which we can cut emissions; about the fastest rates of decarbonisation observed to date; or the link between investment in abatement technology and technological progress (what economists call “learning by doing”).
“While the International Monetary Fund has made great strides on climate change in a short time, emerging markets and developing economies need resources to invest in resilience more urgently than ever. There are four ways the IMF can help them shift to a low-carbon pathway and finance adaptation measures before it’s too late.
“ Qu’il s’agisse de notre master ou de nos MScs, nos étudiants en finance bénéficient de l’expertise de plus de 50 enseignants-chercheurs et des travaux de pointe que nous conduisons au sein de l’EDHEC-Risk Climate, notre centre de recherche dédié à la finance climatique, ou encore au sein d’EDHECinfra, qui émet des recommandations en matière d’infrastructures durables.(...)
“(...) Finance must become a major lever for the environmental transition. Our programs are designed with this in mind and are based on a virtuous triptych: academic excellence, hybridization of knowledge and professional approach. Whether it's our master's degree or our MScs, our finance students benefit from the expertise of more than 50 teacher-researchers and the cutting-edge work we carry out at EDHEC-Risk Climate, our research centre dedicated to climate finance, or at EDHECinfra, which issues recommendations on sustainable infrastructure. (...)
“Climate risk has become a major concern for financial institutions and financial markets. Yet, climate policy is still in its infancy and contributes to increased uncertainty. For example, the lack of a sufficiently high carbon price and the variety of definitions for green activities lower the value of existing and new capital, and complicate risk management. This column argues that it would be welfare-enhancing if policy changes were to follow a predictable longer-term path. Accordingly, the authors suggest a role for financial regulation in the transition."
“S'ils sont devenus ces dernières années un outil incontournable pour les investisseurs, les scénarios climats restent encore (très) loin d'être optimaux. Le point avec Riccardo Rebonato, Directeur scientifique d' EDHEC-Risk Climate et spécialiste du sujet.
“Lauréate du prix Jeunes chercheurs en finance verte de la Banque de France de 2022, Irene Monasterolo invite à revoir le cadre de l’action des institutions financières mondiales pour inclure le risque climatique dans les stratégies d’investissement."
