How Should Investors Manage Climate-Change Risk?

9 Pages Posted: 17 Sep 2014

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Howard Covington

Cambridge University, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Raj Thamotheram

University of Oxford - Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment; Preventable Surprises

Date Written: September 17, 2014

Abstract

Climate change is happening fast and may have a large impact on investment values. The growing debate about fossil fuel divestment is a signal that investors are slowly waking up to this threat, but long-term investors must do much more if they are to avoid material damage to the value of their investments.

Keywords: Climate Change, Global Warming, Emissions, Fossil Fuels, Divestment, Pension Fund, Systemic Risk

Suggested Citation

Covington, Howard and Thamotheram, Raj, How Should Investors Manage Climate-Change Risk? (September 17, 2014). Rotman International Journal of Pension Management, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2014, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2497514 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2497514

Howard Covington (Contact Author)

Cambridge University, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences ( email )

Cambridge, CB3 9DD
United Kingdom

Raj Thamotheram

University of Oxford - Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment ( email )

United Kingdom

Preventable Surprises

London
United Kingdom

HOME PAGE: http://www.preventablesurprises.com

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