Inquiry Publications

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  Financial Dynamics of the Environment

  Date: 15-Jul-2014

  This Working Paper was an early mapping study for the Inquiry and  is based on a literature review (of available literature mainly from OECD countries). It summarises the arguments for why the environment and environment-related risks are relevant to the financial system and reviews the main structural barriers preventing the financial system from managing such issues. Key findings include
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  China Report: The Risks and Opportunities of Stranded Assets

  Date: 06-Oct-2015

  The rise and fall of different technologies, products and businesses are central to rising productivity in healthy, well-functioning markets. This process can result in “stranded assets”—assets that have suffered from unanticipated or premature write-downs, devaluations or conversion to liabilities. Stranded assets are therefore a regular and necessary feature of dynamic economic systems, a phenomenon inherent
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  Greening China’s Financial Markets: The Risks and Opportunities of Stranded Assets

  Date: 15-Sep-2014

  “Stranded assets” are assets that have suffered from unanticipated or premature write-downs, devaluations, or conversion to liabilities. Over the course of the last two decades, the challenges surrounding technological innovation, investor behaviour, and business resilience have become magnified in the context of environmental change. In particular, the issue of stranded assets has emerged as a