The Sustainable Finance Initiative works with public, private and development institutions to engage Stanford researchers in developing the finance and policy tools needed for the transition toward a decarbonized and climate-resilient global economy.
Focus Areas
Carbon accounting (assets) and markets
- Analysis/design/diffusion
- Asset rule book
- MRV
- Carbon market architectures
- Carbon industrial ecosystems
- Engagements:
- scalable removals transactions
- post-COP 30 action agenda
Low Carbon transition management and finance
- Governance (National platforms)
- Forward emissions and infrastructure finance
- Transition risk (political economy, geopolitics; investment uncertainty)
- Portfolio strategies
Financing ecosystem services, conservation, non-anthropic emissions
- Carbon stocks measurement: MRV standards and technologies
- Peat oxidation and reparative finance
Insurance, reinsurance and regulation (effective adaptive solutions)
- Carbon Re (insurance)
SFI Seminar: Governing the Net Zero Transition - Planning, Markets, and Financial Governance in China and India
Join us for our next monthly seminar on June 5 with Erik Berglof, Chief Economist, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Learn more and RSVP here.
Latest News
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U.S. policymakers should “start to think in ecosystem terms, as China has” with “building a bigger and better electricity system" a top priority, Hoover Institution research fellow Dan Wang writes in Foreign Affairs.
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New episode of the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s “Giving with Impact” podcast explores strategic climate philanthropy, with notable energy-related insights from The Nature Conservancy, which advances climate and clean energy policies with public funding opportunities and accelerates renewable energy build-out in ways that consider conservation and community needs.
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The new program focuses on three areas: sustainability challenges, energy transition, and policy solutions. It also examines China's move from fossil fuels to clean energy and its emergence as a global leader in this transition.
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