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Explore expert insights on climate and finance through a curated selection of talks, webinars, and interviews.
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While extreme weather events often dominate the headlines, investors should also pay close attention to the less visible but accumulating impacts of chronic climate risk. Nicolas Schneider of the EDHEC Climate Institute discusses why these long-term physical risks matter for investors on The New Private Markets Podcast.
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Highlights from the EDHEC Climate Research Conference 2026, held during London Climate Action Week in June 2026. Researchers, experts, journalists and partners gathered to explore key challenges around climate scenarios, physical risks, carbon tools and the transition.
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In this keynote interviews recorded at the Financial Times (FT) Climate & Impact Summit Europe 2026, Nicolas Schneider, Senior Research Engineer – Macroeconomist at EDHEC Climate Institute, discusses why chronic physical climate risks need to be integrated into investment decisions and explains how scientific advances are improving climate-risk assessment
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Developed with the support of EDHEC Climate Institute, the initiative aims to advance innovative investment solutions integrating climate resilience and adaptation considerations within equity index construction.The initiative originated from discussions initiated with BNP Paribas in Nice last year, which quickly evolved into a strong alignment around a shared ambition: developing innovative equity index solutions integrating physical climate risk resilience into investment strategies.
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In this webinar, Nicolas Schneider presents EDHEC-CLIRMAP, the EDHEC Climate-Induced Regional Macroimpacts Projector, an interactive online tool offering a highly granular visualisation of projected climate-induced macroeconomic damages. Covering more than 3,660 subnational regions worldwide, the platform enables users to explore localised economic impacts across climate models, warming scenarios, and time horizons throughout the 21st century.
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In this webinar, Professor Niels Gormsen (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) presents new evidence on how greener firms benefit from a lower cost of capital relative to their brown peers. The session examines how this “green discount” reallocates investment across firms and sectors and discuss its implications for climate policy, carbon pricing, and the role of financial markets in the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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In this video, recorded during the Tideline Ecosystem Kick Off hosted by Bpifrance in Paris, EDHEC Climate Institute and the Waves of Change Coalition announce a new partnership dedicated to strengthening coastal resilience. Nicolas Schneider explains why better adaptation strategies require going further in the quantification of physical climate risks, through more granular data, probabilistic scenarios, and improved modelling of both acute and chronic impacts.
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In this webinar, Professor Pedro Matos (Darden School of Business, University of Virginia) presents new evidence on the green transition through a global measure of corporate revenues from green products and services. He examines how these “green revenues” have accelerated since the Paris Agreement and discuss the implications for investors and corporate strategy.
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During the webinar, Nishtha Manocha and Conor Huber presented how the ClimaTech framework systematically maps and assesses decarbonisation and resilience strategies across 101 infrastructure subclasses, providing investors with a robust and transparent foundation to identify what really works for climate-aligned infrastructure.
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What is the true greenium, the return difference between green and brown securities? In this webinar, Professor Lasse Heje Pedersen presents a novel, forward-looking measure that reveals how the greenium evolves across markets and over time, offering fresh insights for ESG investors and regulators.
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What can infrastructure companies do to adapt to climate change, and how do we know what actually works?
The ClimaTech project was designed to answer this question with a structured, research-driven approach to physical risk mitigation and adaptation. While climate risks are widely acknowledged, there is still no comprehensive, sector-specific tool that links infrastructure type and exposure to the most impactful strategies for reducing risk.
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Scientific Climate Ratings is a new venture born from EDHEC’s Climate Finance applied research ecosystem. It delivers forward-looking ratings that quantify the financial materiality of climate risks for infrastructure companies and investors worldwide. Leveraging high-resolution geospatial data, proprietary climate risk models, and the world’s largest financial dataset for infrastructure assets, it evaluates both transition risks and physical risks.
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As part of the Sustainability Week, Nicolas Schneider, Senior Research Engineer – Macroeconomist at the EDHEC Climate Institute delivered a compelling presentation entitled "Climate information granularity and projections of physical risk impacts on economic outputs: A spatial momentum has started”.
This presentation explores the critic...
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What is the true cost of climate change, its impact for corporations and the mitigation options? During their presentation, Nishtha Manocha and Qinyu Goh delved into the financial and operational risks of climate change on private infrastructure assets. They showcased a data-driven approach that equips asset owners and managers with actionable insights to navigate these challenges effectively
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Riccardo Rebonato, Scientific Director, EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute, and Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School, delivered a presentation titled “Advances in Climate Scenario Analysis & Stress Testing: Moving Beyond the SSP/RCP Framework” at the ADIA LAB Symposium, which took place on November 7 and 8 at the...
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What is the impact of the evolving landscape of climate finance on global markets and their transformation❓
On November 12, 2024, EDHEC Business School hosted Marcin Kacperczyk from Imperial College, who presented his pioneering research on Net-Zero Portfolios (NZP). Professor Kacperczyk discussed how these portfolios, designed to reach z...
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What is Biodiversity Risk❓ Do financial professionals worry about biodiversity risk❓ Is biodiversity risk priced in financial markets❓
On October 15, 2024, EDHEC Business School hosted Stefano Giglio, Professor of Finance Yale School of Management, who delivered a talk on the financial implications of biodiversity risk and its impact ...
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Traditional discounted cash flow models often disregard state dependence by applying the same discount rate/factor to all cashflows occurring at a given date. But can this approach effectively value climate-sensitive securities?
New research by EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute, with support from Scientific Beta, shows that this is not the cas...
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Existing climate scenarios, inspired by the IPCC framework, provide invaluable insights but were not designed for financial uses.
New research by EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute explores approaches to enrich the existing framework with probabilistic information. This allows finance practitioners to both understand which outcomes are more lik...
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Robert Litterman introduced carbon-linked bonds, exploring how this financial instrument allows governments to signal their carbon pricing intentions and provides motivation for governments to act on their climate commitments.
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Professor Lopez-Lira discussed how advanced natural language processing can automatically synthesize and interpret textual data like news, earnings calls, and regulatory filings to generate insights for investment research and trading strategies.
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Dr Swinkels discussed the facts and fantasies of sustainable bond markets. He covered the differences and similarities of different types of sustainable bonds, their pricing and expected returns compared to conventional bonds. He also addressed the risks of greenwashing.
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A large number of studies has failed to date to identify a robust and economically significant climate risk premium or climate beta, either at the aggregate or at the sectoral level. Could it be that the markets have already impounded all the relevant information?; that markets expect limited damages?; or that damages are so far in the future to be...
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In his talk on “The Impact of Impact Investing”, professor Van Binsbergen provided insights on the effectiveness of divestment strategies in achieving their intended goals and explored the alternative approaches available to investors seeking to contribute to social objectives.
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Establishing whether "green" and carbon-intensive assets carry a positive or negative risk premium matters a lot for investment managers, because it determines whether these assets act as hedges, or they add to equity risk. Unfortunately, attempts to estimate the climate risk premium empirically have met with near-insurmountable difficulties and le...
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During a 1-hour webinar organised by E-axes Forum, Irene Monasterolo, Research Programme Director, EDHEC-Risk Climate and Professor of Climate Finance, EDHEC Business School, presented findings from her paper on “The Good, the Bad and the Hot House World: Conceptual Underpinnings of the NGFS Scenarios and Suggestions for Improvement.”
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In January 2022, EDHEC Business School has launched a new online monthly speaker series on “The Future of Finance”. The objective is to address the most recent advances in the financial industry and discuss how finance can be a powerful tool for tackling key economic and social challenges.
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In January 2022, EDHEC Business School has launched a new online monthly speaker series on “The Future of Finance”. The objective is to address the most recent advances in the financial industry and discuss how finance can be a powerful tool for tackling key economic and social challenges.
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In January 2022, EDHEC Business School has launched a new online monthly speaker series on “The Future of Finance”. The objective is to address the most recent advances in the financial industry and discuss how finance can be a powerful tool for tackling key economic and social challenges.
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Jean Boissinot drew from a first-hand experience in the development of the global policy agenda and his involvement into various private sector initiatives to propose an understanding of what to expect (and what not to expect) from green and sustainable finance. His talk drew from this recent book "La Finance verte" published in November 2022 (édition Dunod).
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In January 2022, EDHEC Business School has launched a new online monthly speaker series on “The Future of Finance”. The objective is to address the most recent advances in the financial industry and discuss how finance can be a powerful tool for tackling key economic and social challenges. To do so, this series gather all year long in...
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The hazards brought about by global warming such as severe weather, surging sea levels, forest fires, and the melting of glaciers are becoming more apparent. However, there has been a lack of political determination to implement the necessary measures to prevent temperatures from exceeding the critical 2-degree Celsius mark, as deemed by scientists...
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On september 21, Riccardo Rebonato, Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School, Programme Director (Implications of Climate Change on Asset Pricing and Investment Management), EDHEC Risk Climate Impact Institute has been invited by the Fields Institute to deliver a keynote talk on optimal abatement with IAMs at the Fields-CFI Workshop on Impa...
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Organized by the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, the Oxford Sustainable Finance Summit 2022 took place on July 21 and 22 at the University of Oxford and brought together leading researchers from across Oxford with practitioners, policymakers, regulators, and civil society organisations to examine and reflect on the latest deve...
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On 11 July 2022, over 80 international experts gathered at a SUERF-Baffi Bocconi webinar to discuss key findings from a report by the Network on the Greening of the Financial System (NGFS) entitled “Enhancing market transparency in green and transition finance”.
Given the pressing need to achieve progress with climate protection, central ba...
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The OMFIF - Magyar Nemzeti Bank Financial Stability conference 2022, jointly hosted by Magyar Nemzeti Bank and OMFIF, brought together policy-makers from across public institutions, the private sector and researchers from around the world to provide insights on financial stability.
On May 27, Irene Monasterolo, Pro...
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On March 21 and 22, the 15th International Risks Forum was held in Paris, organized by the Louis Bachelier Institute, in partnership with many private and public players, including EDHEC Risk Institute (associate partner). Hosted by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry, this event on the theme of "Climate Risk and Green Transition.
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Panelists discuss to what extent markets are pricing climate risks, how these estimates have evolved and what their implications are for financial policy-makers. Are risks currently underpriced and warrant stricter prudential policies to safeguard financial stability? How can financial regulators ensure that financial markets and financial ins...
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Climate change and the need to take action to adapt our economic system towards renewable energies is the dominating theme of this decade and beyond. Climate change and the energy transition pose important challenges for many firms, for entire economic sectors, and for our economies as a whole. There is an urgent need for risk quantification to und...
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The need for retirement products to provide income security for DC plan participants has been identified, both by regulators and the industry, as the primary goal of retirement investing.
Join now for a discussion on how to achieve this objective without sacrificing liquidity or flexibility.
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Addressing the decumul...
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Les Rencontres du Développement Durable ont été organisées du 27 septembre au 14 octobre 2021 par l'Institut Open Diplomacy.
La journée du 4 octobre consacrée au thème « Investir la finance responsable » a été co-organisée avec l’EDHEC.
Lors de cette conférence sont intervenus :
Modération : Pierre-Alix Binet, Respo...
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The rountable discussion, entitled "How to Detect and Prevent Greenwashing" answered the following questions: In the decade for action, what can policymakers do to prevent greenwashing and speed up the transition to net zero? Company transparency and adequate reporting is critical. What metrics should ESG measurement be built around to drive positive outcomes at both financial and social levels?...
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For several years, the financial industry has been multiplying initiatives to measure companies' climate performance and engagement. Scarcely a day goes by without a new fund or index being launched on the basis of this climate data, with the primary declared objective of the investments' positive impact on the transition towards a low-carbon econo...
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On 9 september 2021, Gianfranco Gianfrate, Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School, and Climate Change Sustainable Finance Lead Expert, EDHEC-Risk Institute presented his paper entitled "Determinants of Internal Carbon Pricing", co-written with Nuno Bento;Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) and Joseph Aldy from Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge.
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Gianfranco Gianfrate, Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School and Head of the Impact on Climate Change of Financing and Investment Decisions programme at EDHEC-Risk Institute has been invited to participate in a debate to discuss the pricing of green bonds and the importance of the “shades of green” for the rating of bonds.&n...
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On Nov 4, Riccardo Rebonato, Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School and Factor Investing Fixed Income Lead Expert at EDHEC-Risk Institute discussed new trends in fixed income investing in Covid19 times, together with Matthieu GUIGNARD, Amundi ETF, at the Big Call: Fixed Income ETFs Forum hosted by ETF Stream.
During th...
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On 5 November 2020, at the Climate Change, Credit Risk and Covid-19 Workshop organised by Long-Term Investors @UniTO and EDHEC-risk institute, Riccardo Rebonato, Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School and Lead Expert on Factor Investing Fixed Income, EDHEC-Risk Institute, gave a presentation on "Climate-Aware Asset Pricing".
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Despite the popularity of factor investing in equities, there is little research on risk premia in fixed income.
Riccardo Rebonato, Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School and EDHEC-Risk expert on Factor Investing Fixed Income, has been working to change that, and he discusses his findings in this webinar.
During this webinar hosted by ...
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