Catalyzing Private Investment

SFI is pursuing commercially realistic opportunities to design financial vehicles and strategies tailored to the specific risk and opportunities associated with sustainable infrastructure and national energy, mobility and agriculture transitions.

Our specific areas of investigation include: blended finance (the use of public or philanthropic capital to mobilize multiples of additional private capital), purpose-built public and private equity vehicles, and green bonds. We will investigate interventions across the technology development cycle (from early-stage to full-scale deployment) and within targeted markets.

Projects

Business Models/Financial Instruments for Distributed Renewable Energy in India

Green Finance in China

Publications

Choi, E., & In, S. Y. (2021). Blended Finance for State-led Decarbonization: How Public Interventions Direct Private Finance towards Green Investments. Sustainable Finance Initiative.
Kauffman, R. (2021). The Valley of Death and the Business of Asset Management. Sustainable Finance Initiative.
Shrimali, G. (2021). Transition Bond Frameworks: Goals, Issues, and Guiding Principles. Sustainable Finance Initiative.
Choi, E. (2021). Achieving Speed and Scale in Climate Finance: The Platforms as Meta-Intermediaries. Sustainable Finance Initiative.
Halland, H., Dixon, A., In, S. Y., Monk, A., & Sharma, R. (2021). Mobilising Institutional Investor Capital for Climate-Aligned Development. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1787/24140929
In, S. Y., Monk, A., & Knox-Hayes, J. (2020). Financing Energy Innovation: The Need for New Intermediaries in Clean Energy. Sustainability, 12(24), 25. https://doi.org/https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3248032
Monk, A., & In, S. Y. (2020). Financial Innovation for Energy Innovation. The Brown Journal of World Affairs, 26(2). http://bjwa.brown.edu/26-2/financial-innovation-for-energy-innovation/
Choi, E., & Seiger, A. (2020). Catalyzing Capital for the Transition toward Decarbonization: Blended Finance and Its Way Forward. Sustainable Finance Initiative.
In, S. Y., Park, K. Y., & Monk, A. (2019). Is ’Being Green’ Rewarded in the Market?: An Empirical Investigation of Decarbonization and Stock Returns.
Seiger, A. (2019). Stanford Workshop on Blended Finance. Sustainable Finance Initiative.
Williams, J.-T., Seiger, A., Longstreth, B., Krosinsky, C., Serafeim, G., & Smith, T. (2019). New York State Common Retirement Fund Decarbonization Advisory Panel Beliefs and Recommendations. https://www.osc.state.ny.us/reports/decarbonization-advisory-panel-report.pdf