Discover the fourth edition of EDHEC’s Climate Finance Highlights (April 2025)
Delve into groundbreaking research and insightful discussions from our researchers on climate finance and, if you haven't already done so, do not hesitate to subscribe to this quarterly newsletter.
Driven by our institutes and initiatives, including the EDHEC Climate Institute and Scientific Portfolio - an EDHEC Venture, this newsletter brings you the latest climate finance cutting-edge research and practical applications.
This quarter, as global leaders prepare to gather in Nice for the 2025 UN Oceans Conference, we are proud to highlight EDHEC’s contribution to the EC–EIB Adaptation Days, co-organised with the European Investment Bank and the European Commission. This high-level event will convene policymakers, financial institutions, and researchers to address the growing challenges of coastal resilience and climate adaptation financing. We will present EDHEC’s latest research, including the development of a climate risk map for coastal infrastructure and new findings on the economic costs of inaction and the importance of granular climate data for more accurate vulnerability analysis. These contributions reflect EDHEC's commitment to providing actionable, data-driven solutions that support decision-makers in addressing the climate crisis.
Latest Insights
Introducing EDHEC Climate Institute: A New Interdisciplinary Hub for Climate Research and Action
In this article, Anthony Schrapffer, Scientific Director of the EDHEC Climate Institute, presents the ambitions of this new initiative rooted in the rich ecosystem of EDHEC Business School. This research-based initiative defends an integrated vision, drawing on recognised historical expertise in climate finance, while leveraging new complementary fields - spatial data, AI, regulation… – to produce concrete insights and application… Read this article
Land and Climate: Major Climate Challenges for the Agricultural Sector
A few days after the closing of the 2025 International Agricultural Show in Paris, two researchers from the EDHEC Climate Institute — Nicolas Schneider and Anthony Schrapffer — reflect on the often paradoxical yet always systemic challenges faced by agricultural stakeholders: land and crop profitability, the ambiguous effects of CO₂, land-use decisions, compensation schemes, transition risks… Read this article
Global Climate Policy Challenges in Light of Donald Trump's New Mandate
In this interview, Noël Amenc, EDHEC Associate Professor of Finance (Singapore) and Director of the EDHEC Climate Institute, harshly criticises the latest political, economic and financial decisions taken across the Atlantic. He calls for a European intellectual and scientific revival. In his opinion, EDHEC Business School can and must play its part with comparative advantages and remarkable existing and ready to be launched solutions… Read this interview
Climate Transition Risks and Equity Portfolios: A Scenario-Based Assessment of Financial Losses
Scientific Portfolio (an EDHEC Venture) researchers examine, based on their latest study, the financial implications of climate transition risks for equity portfolios. Using a model that integrates firm-level revenue and greenhouse gas emissions data with long-term transition scenarios, the study highlights how policy changes, technological innovation, and shifts in demand associated with the energy transition may affect portfolio valuation… Read this article
Fund Managers Play an Important Role in Translating Environmental Concerns Into Asset Prices
In a recent paper, EDHEC Professors Teodor Dyakov and Dominic O’Kane study the impact of climate salience on the investment decisions taken by more than five thousand fund managers around the world. Do managers update their preferences for green assets following prolonged heatwaves? Is that informative for the risks and returns of sustainable investment?… Read this article
Latest news
Building for 2050: EDHEC Takes the Stage at OECD Infrastructure Forum
In response to mounting climate risks, demographic changes, and evolving economic conditions, the 2025 OECD Infrastructure Forum brought together international policymakers, industry leaders, and researchers to examine how infrastructure systems can adapt to emerging global pressures. Under the theme “Roadmap to 2050 – Infrastructure for a Changing World,” the forum explored forward-looking strategies for building resilient, inclusive, and sustainable infrastructure. EDHEC played a leading role through the active participation of the EDHEC Climate Institute (ECI) and Scientific Climate Ratings (SRC), an EDHEC Venture... Read this news
EDHEC Climate Institute Shares Key Innovations on Sustainable Infrastructure at FIDIC Global Leadership Forum Summit
On April 10, 2025, Rob Arnold, Sustainability Research Director, and Camille Angué, Deputy Director in Charge of Outreach, represented the EDHEC Climate Institute at the third annual FIDIC Global Leadership Forum Summit in Madrid. This high-level gathering of 100 senior leaders from the global infrastructure sector brought together executives across government, finance, engineering, and academia to accelerate discussions on climate, technology, and workforce transformation in infrastructure... Read this news
Discover the latest EDHEC Climate Institute Research Insights (IPE Supplement, Spring 2025)
In this supplement, we explore climate change’s impact on equity valuation, the need for probabilistic climate scenarios, and transition finance regulation. We also highlight high-resolution climate data for risk assessment and resilience and ClimaTech’s role in mitigating transition and physical risks, offering insights for climate-resilient investment strategies... Read this news
Discover the third edition of EDHEC’s Climate Finance Highlights (January 2025)
This quarter, EDHEC Climate Institute explores the growing demand for transparency in climate risk assessments, the essential role of finance in driving the climate transition, and the need for more robust climate scenario models. The experts delve into decarbonisation strategies, the financial sector's contribution to climate action, and the potential costs of inaction on infrastructure sustainability... Read this news
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