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Sustainable Finance Initiative is a cross-campus effort of the Precourt Institute for Energy.

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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.

About us

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

Globe focused on India and China

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

Missed a previous SFI Seminar?

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Visit SFI's Video library to view recordings from SFI's Seminar Series. 

Latest News

  • 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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