Network for Sustainable Financial Markets

There are strong grounds for thinking that one of the next “predictable surprises” that regulators, investors and others will miss will be climate change.  For an academic description of how the “predictable surprise” phenomenon works, see http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=785990 Two leading experts – Thomas Homer-Dixon & Pavan Sukdhev – recently presented state of the art thinking to [...]

The Climate Change Working Group of NSFM has been working over the past months with various experts, institutional investors, academics, lawyers and NGOs to develop ideas for Climate Bonds to fund the transition to a low-carbon economy that is imperative in order to avoid catastrophic climate change. The enclosed draft develops a number of models [...]