We investigate the real effects of mandatory climate-related disclosure by financial institutions on the funding of carbon-intensive industries. Our impact metric is the amount invested into securities, bonds and stocks, issued by fossil fuel companies. A French law, which came into force in...

Fossil fuel divestment refers to activist-led campaigns aiming to convince large institutional investors to sell their holdings in companies that operate in carbon-intensive sectors and industries. Part of a larger anti-fossil fuel movement, the growing momentum of the fossil fuel divestment...

Rapidly rising carbon emissions from the intense development of Western Canada’s fossil fuels continue to aggravate the global climate emergency and destabilize democratic structures. The urgency of the situation demands not only scholarly understanding, but effective action. Regime of...

Between 2011 and 2018, 35 American universities and colleges divested, either partially or completely, their endowments from fossil-fuel holdings, marking a shift toward sustainability in university endowment investment. However, the decision by these universities to divest was often marred by...

We assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on global fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions over the two-year horizon 2020Q1-2021Q4. We apply a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model, which captures complex spatial-temporal interdependencies across countries associated with the...

We investigate the real effects of mandatory climate-related disclosure by financialinstitutions on the funding of carbon-intensive industries. Our impact metric is the amountinvested into securities, bonds and stocks, issued by fossil fuel companies. A French law,which came into force in...

Existing international environmental institutions curb fossil fuels by rewarding countries for reducing demand and expanding substitutes. This paper argues that it would be beneficial to create new institutions that would reward countries for reducing their fossil fuel supply. Assuming complete...

Energy firms provide key sources of energy needed to power the world economy. This paper offers a current overview of major energy firms in Germany, including location, geographic operations, and financial performance. German energy firms increasingly use renewable energy sources, thereby...

This paper models how key technological and financial aspects of a potential fossil fuel phase-out interact in a stylized setting. In the energy generation part of the model, the substitutability between green and dirty energy is endogenized such that firms can invest into substitutability...