New Voices for the New Challenges

Angelo A. Calvello, PhDFounder, Journal of Environmental Investing When we started the JEI ten years ago, this issue’s contributors had likely not come to their investigation of environmental investing. After a one-year hiatus, we’re back, and as this issue shows, we’re back with groundbreaking research on environmental investing. The content of this 2019 issue reflects how far we have come …

The Proof in the Pipeline: Fossil Fuels and Social Inequality

Arina Abbott oversees marketing at Green Alpha Advisors, an asset manager that invests public equities in the innovation-driven, sustainable economy. While fossil fuel risk has reared its ugly head in the form of blazing fires, stronger storms, and oil-stained beaches, the U.S. remains home to the highest number of climate change deniers in the world. Meanwhile, systemic inequality has continued …

EOS Climate Solution: HFC Credits

EOS Climate Innovative Market Solution Curbs Carbon Emissions From HFCs HFC (hyrdofluorocarbon) refrigerants are significant contributors to climate change, and they continue to be produced and used for refrigeration and cooling in tens of millions of homes, office buildings, supermarkets, and automobiles. Global efforts are underway to reduce emissions of HFCs: The Parties to the Montreal Protocol are creating a …

Reflections on “Effective Clean Tech Investing”

  Russell Read, PhD, CFA Senior Advisor to the Mountain Pacific Group     John Preston, MBA Managing Partner of TEM Capital     Russell and John are the authors of Chapter 11, “Effective Clean Tech Investing,” in Environmental Alpha: Institutional Investors and Climate Change.   Since the publication of our chapter “Effective Clean Tech Investing” over half a decade …

Reflections on Environmental Alpha

Matthew J. Kiernan, PhD Chief Executive, Inflection Point Capital Management Matthew is the author of Chapter 6, “SRI or Not SRI?”, in Environmental Alpha: Institutional Investors and Climate Change.   As I write this, COP21 in Paris is scant weeks away, and the results there may make a mockery of much of what I say here, but here goes a …

Introducing the Carbon Impact Factor

A Family of Financial Instruments to Differentiate and Reward Carbon Efficiency in Commodity Production Joe Madden,* CEO, EOS Climate Stephen Lamm, VP Business Development, EOS Climate Jeff Cohen, SVP Science and Policy, EOS Climate Tom Baumann, Co-Founder, ClimateCHECK and Interactive Leader Collaborase Mary Grady, Director of Business Development, American Carbon Registry Arjun Patney, Policy Director, American Carbon Registry Eric Ripley, ...

Why Aren’t We 100% LED?

JEI Working Paper 6: Why Aren’t We 100% LED? Mimi Reichenbach Yale University September 2015 LEDs-A 19-Day Payback Period and Part of the Energy Solution Historically, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) have been pitted against the traditional incandescent bulb with the argument that both offer environmental and fiscal benefits through energy savings. It has been difficult for …

Vortex Bladeless: Spanish Start-up Innovates Wind Energy

Mimi Reichenbach 9/16/15 If wind turbines were considered disruptive technology, Vortex Bladeless is set to disrupt the disrupters. This summer, the Madrid-based start-up announced a new wind turbine, the “Vortex.” The Vortex differs dramatically in structure from current turbines. Most notably, it does not have any blades. The turbine instead generates energy from an oscillating effect, perhaps making it more …

How to Expand Access to Clean Energy Financing

Jacob Sandry Imagining futures is a fundamental activity of the human psyche. Apocalyptic blockbusters flood movie theaters every summer, technologists imagine how silicon will next transform our lives (I’m still waiting for my flying car), and political analysts predict how elections might reshape our country. One future that we are realizing nearly as quickly as we imagine it is clean …