Research Bulletins by Year
Research Bulletins
2025
- Structured Finance to Fund Climate SolutionsClimate change is already affecting our everyday lives, and mitigation and adaptation actions need to be taken now. Many technical advances have been made in climate solutions, but their implementation and scaling up need funding. Private financial institutions are still underrepresented among climate solution investors—what structured financial instruments and public-private partnerships will help incentivize the… Read more: Structured Finance to Fund Climate Solutions
2024
- Financial market solutions for funding green transition and climate resilienceClimate change is already affecting our everyday lives and mitigation and adaptation actions need to be taken now. Many technical advances have been made in climate solutions, but their implementation needs funding. On May 3, 2024, CAFIN, held a workshop that focused on the question of how we can bring more private sector funds into… Read more: Financial market solutions for funding green transition and climate resilience
2023
- What’s Needed to Attract Private Finance of Climate Solutions?Issue 6. 06/22/2023 The Center for Analytical Finance (CAFIN), The Center for Coastal Climate Resilience (CCCR) at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC), U.C. Investments, Centre for Economic Policy (CEP), and Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business jointly hosted the “Catalyzing Private Financial Markets for Climate Solutions” workshop on June 9th, 2023 at Santa Clara University’s… Read more: What’s Needed to Attract Private Finance of Climate Solutions?
2022
- SEC Proposed Rules to Enhance and Standardize Climate-Related DisclouresIssue 5. 05/04/2022 On March 21, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed new rules that would require publicly traded companies to disclose their climate-related financial risks. The press release and the links to the related publications are available from the SEC page. In this issue of the CAFIN bulletin, we briefly discuss the reason… Read more: SEC Proposed Rules to Enhance and Standardize Climate-Related Discloures
- Settling Climate Accounts: Navigating the Road to Net-ZeroIssue 4. 01/03/2022 On November 5, 2021, the CAFIN and UC Investment Speaker Series hosted Dr Alicia Seiger, Lecturer at Stanford Law School, Managing Director at Precourt Institute Sustainable Finance Initiative, and Managing Director at Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, in conversation with Dr Galina Hale, Professor of Economics at UC Santa Cruz.… Read more: Settling Climate Accounts: Navigating the Road to Net-Zero
- Net Zero Carbon Portfolio AlignmentIssue 3. 01/03/2022 On October 15, 2021, CAFIN and UC Investment Speaker Series hosted Frederic Samama, Chief Responsible Investment Officer at CPR AM, Amundi Group, in conversation with Dr. Daniel Friedman, Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz. Here, we provide a summary of the conversation. The video of the conversation and the… Read more: Net Zero Carbon Portfolio Alignment
- International Aspects of Digital Currencies and FintechIssue 2. 12/7/2021 In October 2021, the IFM program of the Central Bank Research Association (CEBRA), where our co-director Galina Hale serves as program director, held a joint conference with the European Central Bank (ECB) on “International aspects of digital currencies and fintech.” The conference focused on the implications of the growing role of digital… Read more: International Aspects of Digital Currencies and Fintech