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Explore expert insights on climate and finance through a curated selection of talks, webinars, and interviews.

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Climate Information Granularity and Projections of Physical Risk Impacts on Economic Outputs: A Spatial Momentum Has Started
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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Advances in Climate Scenarios and Stress Testing
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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Climate Finance
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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Biodiversity Risk
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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Assessing the Impact of Climate Risk on Global Equity Valuations
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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How to Enhance Climate Scenarios for Investors
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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Carbon Pricing: Can Financial Engineering Save the Planet?
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 gathers all year long intern...

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Harnessing the Power of ChatGPT and AI in Finance
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 gathers all year long intern...

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Sustainable Bond Investing
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 gathers all year long intern...

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Climate Risks: Are the Markets Asleep at the Wheel
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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The Impact of Impact Investing
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 gathers all year long intern...

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Where is the Climate Risk Premium?
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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“The Good, the Bad and the Hot House World: Conceptual Underpinnings of the NGFS Scenarios and Suggestions for Improvement
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 (co-authored with  María J. Nieto and Edo Schets) on “The Good, the Bad and the Hot House World: Conceptual Underpinnings of the...

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Impact Investing
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 gathers all year long intern...

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Do corporations need a purpose?
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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Estimating coporate carbon emissions with machine learning
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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Navigating the world of ESG ratings
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 economic case for tackling climate change now
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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Beyond DICE: What the New-Generation Integrated Assessment Models Can Teach Us About the Optimal Abatement Policy
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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Climate-related physical risks
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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“NGFS Report: Enhancing market transparency in green and transition finance
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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Cascading Climate Financial Risks
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 Transit...

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Climate Risks in Financial Markets
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-related risks: A financial stability angle for Europe
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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Introducing the Retirement Bond: The New Risk-Free Asset in Decumulation Strategies
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. The webinar covers: Addressing the decumul...

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Climat : Où va notre cash?
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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How to Detect and Prevent Greenwashing
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 arou...

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The Climate Deserves Better than 12%
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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Climate Change and Credit Risk
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 Harvar...

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Do the Shades of Green Matter?
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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Fixed-Income Investing in Times of QE
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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Climate Aware Asset Pricing
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" and e...

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Factor Investing in Bond Markets
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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Factor Investing In the Time of Quantitative Easing
Riccardo Rebonato, Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School, and Factor Investing Fixed Income Lead Expert, EDHEC-Risk Institute, gave a keynote speech on Smart Beta Fixed Income at the Beyond Beta Europe Digital Conference, hosted by ETF Stream.  The video entitled: "Factor Investing in the Time of Quantitative Easing" examine...

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Factor Investing in Asset-Liability Management
Institutional investors have begun to recognize the importance of risk factors in asset allocation decisions, even though factor investing has had mixed results over the last few years. Lionel Martellini, Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School and Director of EDHEC-Risk Institute, has been working to combine the benefits of liability hedg...

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How Financial Engineering can Help Meet the Challenges Posed by the Pension Crisis
This webinar provides a unique opportunity to engage with EDHEC-Risk's director on retirement investing, a subject which is topical in the investment management industry. Lionel Martellini, Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School discusses "How Financial Engineering can Help Meet the Challenges Posed by the Pension Crisis" and examine...

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Mass Customization Versus Mass Production in Investment Management
TOPIC Existing financial products marketed as “retirement investment solutions” do not meet the needs of future retirees in securing their essential goals of minimum levels of replacement income (focus on safety) while generating a relatively high probability of achieving their aspirational goals, expressed in terms of target levels of repla...

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Bayesian Nets for Stress Testing and Scenario Analysis
TOPIC 1 Stress Testing and Its Engineering Challenges Risk management, prudential macro- and microregulation, portfolio allocation and, in general, the strategic analysis of financial and economic outcomes share the common unstated assumption that the past conveys useful statistical information about the future. Indeed, a large part of contem...

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