Research Archive
The Climate Change Risk Reduction Trap
Kuwait’s current economic diversification plans may inadvertently increase domestic vulnerability to climate risks, warn researchers.
Net Zero Finance Analysis
A new tracker evaluates banks’ net-zero pledges, addressing accountability gaps and enabling comparisons to identify best practices in climate commitments.
The ESG Washing in Banks
To divert attention from their unsustainable practices, low ESG-rated banks lend to firms with better ratings, says a study showing markets react well to such ‘ESG-washing’.
‘Climate Bailout’
Researchers propose a climate bailout tool to enable companies to sell potentially stranded fossil fuel assets to central banks, reinvesting the proceeds in renewable energy.
Mobilising Global Debt Markets for a Just Transition
Green, sustainable bond markets can be adapted to finance a just transition at scale and pace, says this joint paper by the Climate Bonds Initiative and the Grantham Research Institute.
Banks and the Net Zero Transition
The TPI’s first banking sector assessment finds disclosures are still “partial and selective” and banks do not include all on and off balance sheet activities in net zero commitments.
Accelerating the Early Retirement of Coal-Fired Power Plants Through Carbon Credits
This paper by the Monetary Authority of Singapore considers how high-integrity transition credits can be used to accelerate the phaseout of coal power plants in Asia. …
Financing the Green Transition
New asset classes can be used alongside the greening of macroeconomic policies to accelerate a socially and ecologically just transition, say researchers.
Prudential Transition Plans
Prudential transition plans could offer a technical solution to address some of the challenges of integrating transition risks into the prudential framework, say climate finance experts.
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