Publication Type
Report
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
3-2024
Abstract
Efforts to address climate change have generally been focused on deploying mitigation technologies. However, it is adaptation technologies (and climate risk transfer) that will have to gain an increasing share of an investment pool dedicated to climate if human systems are to stay resilient to climate forces. Just like mitigation projects, adaptation projects have a strong public goods aspect, wherein public returns exceed private returns, and thus call for the state’s involvement. We argue that sovereign climate funds (SCFs) - new types of sovereign wealth funds with a climate investment mandate - can be critical purpose-built conduits especially for undertaking the needed decades-long programs of allocating resources to adaptation projects, without hindrance from political biases or “short-termism”. They can also function as “cushions” against potential future climate funding shortfalls and dispense payouts when climate disasters strike. We discuss the various climate-related adaptation investments that SCFs would be particularly well-suited to undertake.
Keywords
Investment, climate change, sovereign climate funds, sovereign wealth funds
Discipline
Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics | Finance and Financial Management | Portfolio and Security Analysis
Research Areas
Finance
First Page
1
Last Page
20
Publisher
Singapore Managment University, Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics
City or Country
Singapore
Embargo Period
4-1-2024
Citation
Kozintseva, Marianna and Wizman, Thierry.
Investing in climate: A role for 'sovereign climate funds'. (2024). 1-20.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/skbi/37
Copyright Owner and License
Singapore Management University
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