EDHEC Business School Climate Finance Highlights - April 2025 Issue Delivering Research Insights Double Materiality to the Financial Community Forward to a colleague Subscribe to our newsletter Climate Finance Highlights Issue n°4, April 2025 Welcome to the fourth edition of EDHEC’s Climate Finance Highlights. This quarter, as global leaders prepare to gather in Nice for the 2025 UN Oceans Conference, we are proud to highlight EDHEC’s contribution to the EC–EIB Adaptation Days, co-organised with the European Investment Bank and the European Commission. This high-level event will convene policymakers, financial institutions, and researchers to address the growing challenges of coastal resilience and climate adaptation financing. We will present EDHEC’s latest research, including the development of a climate risk map for coastal infrastructure and new findings on the economic costs of inaction and the importance of granular climate data for more accurate vulnerability analysis. These contributions reflect EDHEC's commitment to providing actionable, data-driven solutions that support decision-makers in addressing the climate crisis. Latest Insights Introducing EDHEC Climate Institute: A New Interdisciplinary Hub for Climate Research and Action In this article, Anthony Schrapffer, Scientific Director of the EDHEC Climate Institute, presents the ambitions of this new initiative rooted in the rich ecosystem of EDHEC Business School. This research-based initiative defends an integrated vision, drawing on recognised historical expertise in climate finance, while leveraging new complementary fields - spatial data, AI, regulation… – to produce concrete insights and applications. Read More → Land and Climate: Major Climate Challenges for the Agricultural Sector A few days after the closing of the 2025 International Agricultural Show in Paris, two researchers from the EDHEC Climate Institute — Nicolas Schneider and Anthony Schrapffer — reflect on the often paradoxical yet always systemic challenges faced by agricultural stakeholders: land and crop profitability, the ambiguous effects of CO₂, land-use decisions, compensation schemes, transition risks. Read More → Global Climate Policy Challenges in Light of Donald Trump's New Mandate In this interview, Noël Amenc, EDHEC Associate Professor of Finance (Singapore) and Director of the EDHEC Climate Institute, harshly criticises the latest political, economic and financial decisions taken across the Atlantic. He calls for a European intellectual and scientific revival. In his opinion, EDHEC Business School can and must play its part with comparative advantages and remarkable existing and ready to be launched solutions. Read More → Climate Transition Risks and Equity Portfolios: A Scenario-Based Assessment of Financial Losses Scientific Portfolio (an EDHEC Venture) researchers examine, based on their latest study, the financial implications of climate transition risks for equity portfolios. Using a model that integrates firm-level revenue and greenhouse gas emissions data with long-term transition scenarios, the study highlights how policy changes, technological innovation, and shifts in demand associated with the energy transition may affect portfolio valuation. Read More → Fund Managers Play an Important Role in Translating Environmental Concerns Into Asset Prices In a recent paper, EDHEC Professors Teodor Dyakov and Dominic O’Kane study the impact of climate salience on the investment decisions taken by more than five thousand fund managers around the world. Do managers update their preferences for green assets following prolonged heatwaves? Is that informative for the risks and returns of sustainable investment? Read More → Reference Publications EDHEC Climate Institute Research Insights Supplement to Pensions & Investment (P&I) In this supplement, the authors explore climate change’s impact on equity valuation, the need for probabilistic climate scenarios, and transition finance regulation. It also highlights high-resolution climate data for risk assessment and resilience, and the role of the ClimaTech database in mitigating transition and physical risks, offering insights for climate-resilient investment strategies. Forthcoming Event 5/6 June 2025 - European Commission - European Investment Bank Adaptation Days 2025: A Deep Dive Into Financing Coastal Resilience EDHEC Business School and the EDHEC Climate Institute are proud to partner with the European Investment Bank and the European Commission for the EC - EIB Adaptation Days 2025. Held in a hybrid format (EDHEC Campus in Nice and online), this event is organised under the auspices of the UN Oceans Conference and will focus on the critical theme of Coastal Resilience. Bringing together policymakers, financial institutions, and climate adaptation experts, the conference will explore innovative approaches to mitigate the growing risks of sea-level rise and extreme climate events. Key discussions will centre on adaptation finance and the resilience of coastal infrastructure in the face of a changing climate. 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