GCF Working Paper 2/2017:
Framing 1.5 C – Turning an investment challenge into a green growth opportunity

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Our new working paper wants to contribute to the special report on the impacts of average global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will produce in 2018. In contrast to a classical perspective on climate policy, which focuses on costs, our paper proposes a win-win framing: The 1:5C scenario should be seen as an opportunity for the world to achieve a Great Transition to green growth. Read more

A climate stress-test of the financial system

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An article, published in the journal “Nature Climate Change” on March 27th 2017. The authors, Stefano Battiston, Antoine Mandel, Irene Monasterolo, Franziska Schütze and Gabriele Visentin, have developed a “climate stress-test” of the financial system. The analysis looks beyond the fossil fuel and utility sector, by including energy-intensive sectors as well as indirect effects, and it differentiates between different types of investor. Read more

Green investment and coordination failure: An investors’ perspective

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The goal to keep global warming well below 2°C can only be achieved if private investors shift capital from brown to green infrastructures and technologies. Read more