Veronika Stolbova, Irene Monasterolo and Stefano Battiston

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A financial macro-network approach to climate policy evaluation

Existing approaches to assess the economic impact of climate policies tend to overlook the financial sector and to focus only on direct effects of policies on the specific institutional sector they target, neglecting possible feedbacks between sectors, thus, underestimating the overall policy effect. To fill in this gap, we develop a methodology based on financial […]

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Climate transition risk and development finance: a carbon risk assessment of China’s overseas energy portfolios

The role of development finance institutions in low-income and emerging countries is fundamental to provide long-term capital for investments in climate mitigation and adaptation. Nevertheless, development finance institutions still lack sound and transparent metrics to assess their projects’ exposure to climate risks and their impact on global climate action. This information is crucial to allow […]

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