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Informationen zum Autor Ben Caldecott is foundingDirector of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme in the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford! UK. He is a leading authority on sustainable finance and investment with a considerable international reputation. He has pioneered key concepts in his field! including the concept of 'stranded assets' and is the leading academic researcher in this area internationally. Zusammenfassung Exploring how stranded assets are relevant to investor strategy and decision-making, and to understanding and influencing financial institutions, this book was first published as a special issue of Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: stranded assets and the environment 1. Investment consequences of the Paris climate agreement 2. Blindness to risk: why institutional investors ignore the risk of stranded assets 3. Transition risks and market failure: a theoretical discourse on why financial models and economic agents may misprice risk related to the transition to a low-carbon economy 4. Social and asocial learning about climate change among institutional investors: lessons for stranded assets 5. Assessing the sources of stranded asset risk: a proposed framework 6. Climate change and the fiduciary duties of pension fund trustees – lessons from the Australian law 7. Game theory and corporate governance: conditions for effective stewardship of companies exposed to climate change risks 8. A comparative analysis of the anti-Apartheid and fossil fuel divestment campaigns
