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

Focus Areas

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Wondering how to dive in? Below is a quick guide to SFI's focus areas.

  • Carbon Accounting and Emissions Liability Management (ELM): how carbon accounting ELM can make Net Zero add-up and hold those responsible for emissions accountable while enabling price discovery, and how moving from disclosure to E-liability accounting and ELM addresses the challenges of Scope 2 and Scope 3 in practice. 
  • Carbon Markets: how carbon accounting and ELM solve the persistent problems with voluntary carbon markets while serving their three primary purposes: (1) speeding-up the transition to lower-carbon processes and assets, (2) protecting and enhancing natural carbon sinks, and (3) creating demand for carbon removal and sequestration.
  • Transition Pathways: how carbon accounting and ELM solve the foundational challenges of transition finance through portfolio alignment.
  • Insurance: how investigating a set of questions around re-imagining current models and building innovative new forms of insurance that better manage physical risk for both public and private entities. 
  • Climate Adaptation and Resilience Finance: how to increase adaptation finance sources and deploying sources effectively and efficiently to achieve just, resilience-building outcomes as well as effectively tracking/quantifying adaptation-focused funding flows to ensure that current efforts deliver improved resilience outcomes for those regions and communities most vulnerable to the hazards of climate change.

Carbon Accounting and Emissions Liability Management

Aerial view coal power plant station in the morning mist