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Upcoming Events
SFI Monthly Seminar Series
Are you interested in learning about innovative policy and financial mechanisms designed to rapidly decarbonize the global economy? Join SFI’s monthly seminar to meet researchers working on sustainable finance and to learn about ways to engage with SFI. Visit Stanford Energy's YouTube channel to view recordings from past seminars.
- Thursday, January 18 from 4:00-5:00pm PT: Pathways Versus Incentives: Climate Activism to Climate Outcomes with Julien Maire, SFI Research Fellow. Recording now available.
- Thursday, February 29 from 12:00-1:00pm PT: The Great Deployment: A Look at How the Financing of Climate Technology is Rapidly Evolving with Chante Harris, Founder & Managing Partner, Eunoia Group.
- Thursday, March 14 from 4:00-5:00pm PT: Student Summer Fellowship Spotlight with the SFI 2023 Summer Fellows.
Recent Publications, Podcast, and Videos
Publications:
- What's Scope 2 Good For? (Marc Roston, Alicia Seiger, and Abigail Mathieson):
- Under the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, Scope 2 has focused attention on electricity as a contributor to emissions, but it falls short when used for accounting.
- Carbon solvency, an approach that requires firms to match long-duration emissions as liabilities with carbon removal assets, provides a parsimonious constraint supporting definite net zero claims. This approach allows more effective investment decisions in grid decarbonization and clarifies decision-making for electricity generation methods dependent on variable upstream emissions sources such as hydrogen and biofuels.
- Pathways Versus Incentives: Climate Activism to Climate Outcomes (Marc Roston, Julien Maire, Alicia Seiger, and Thomas Heller):
- Climate activists have pressured financial institutions to accelerate global decarbonization by aligning portfolios with Paris Agreement transition pathways and targets.
- As an alternative, we propose Emissions Liability Management (ELM) which treats emissions as liabilities matched by removal assets, enabling firms to maintain emissions solvency. Rather than chasing pathways, ELM provides incentives for emissions reductions and removals consistent with shareholder obligations. By reframing climate action in financial terms, ELM can engage financial markets as agents of change.
Podcast:
- Climate Finance Podcast: Alicia Seiger, SFI Managing Director, joins host Jonas Tobiassen to discuss her climate journey, including Emissions Liability Management and advice to future climate investors, entrepreneurs, and policymakers.
Videos:
- SFI Seminar: Accounting for Carbon Offsets: Marc Roston, SFI Senior Research Scholar, presents an accounting framework based on five core principles.
- ClimateCAP MBA Academy: "Settling Climate Accounts - the Road to Net Zero": Alicia Seiger walks the audience through the importance and complexity of carbon accounting and make recommendations for the road ahead.
