What's holding back the green transition?
New research from ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Business School reveals what’s stopping businesses from taking action to protect our overheated planet.
Centre for Climate Finance and Investment
The Centre develops research, analytics, and market solutions needed to manage climate and nature-related risks, engineer economic security, and support sustainable growth.
As climate change, nature loss, energy-system disruption, and geopolitical instability reshape markets, organisations need more robust ways to assess risk, protect economic value, strengthen resilience, and finance transition pathways.
CCFI works with academic and industry partners to develop scalable approaches to climate risk analytics, clean energy investment, adaptation finance, risk-transfer innovation, and climate-resilient infrastructure.
Our distinctive role is to connect science, markets, and technology. We convert complex climate, nature, and environmental risk into decision-useful financial insight; use advanced analytics and AI to improve risk assessment and scenario design; and develop financial approaches that promote resilience, competitiveness, energy security, and sustainable prosperity.
Research impact areas
Robust climate and nature risk analytics
We combine finance, climate science, data analytics, and AI to develop research and frameworks that improve understanding of climate and nature-related risks and support better decisions under uncertainty.
Economic security and resilience
We help organisations understand how climate, nature, energy, infrastructure, and market risks affect assets and performance. Through financial, analytical, and risk-transfer solutions, we support better risk management, preparedness, and resilience.
Sustainable growth and energy security
CCFI develops insights on the investment and financing approaches needed to scale climate and nature solutions while advancing net zero, energy security, and economic prosperity.
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We use rigorous modelling and real-world data to reveal how climate and nature risks move through financial systems. Our work gives investors and policymakers the tools to quantify exposure, test scenarios and build resilience so decisions are grounded in science, not speculation.
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Our influence
Our research is published in Nature Communications, Nature Climate Change, Review of Economic Studies and Communications Earth & Environment, and is supported by the Singapore Green Finance Centre (SGFC).
Our advisory board brings together senior leaders from Ninety One, the Carbon Trust, Sandbrook Capital, Nyamira Lab, the National Wealth Fund, MAN Group, Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), and Abundance, who review our research and education priorities annually to ensure our work remains grounded in the needs of investors, financial institutions and policymakers.
Our faculty work with partners across Europe, North America and Asia, including the International Finance Corporation, the National Bank of Belgium and the University of Virginia.
Insights from our experts
Why are businesses falling short on climate goals?
Despite efforts to improve, large corporations are still playing a major role in the rise in global temperatures. Here, Professor of Finance Marcin Kacperczyk explores why.
Do carbon markets work?
In 2005, the European Union created the world's first and largest market-based carbon policy. Here, we look at the impact it has had, so far.
What global climate change models are missing
Researchers from ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Business School and the Singapore Green Finance Centre have used machine learning to combine data to understand the climate change risk at a local level.
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