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Venture capital

Informing the design of climate-advancing investment instruments

CLFI is engaging with two investment firms to assess and strengthen methodologies to define climate-advancing impact in venture capital and fixed income.
Carbon accounting

Creating harmonized approaches to carbon accounting that ensures the quality, comparability, and decision-usefulness of methodologies and related disclosures

CLFI is preparing publications on the emissions accounting practices for low-carbon steel and aluminum brands, the role of public procurement in decarbonizing steel and aluminum production, and the additionality of GHG reductions associated with market mechanisms.
financed emissions methodologies

Strengthening financial institutions’ alignment methodologies, including by analyzing financed emissions methodologies

As financial institutions seek clarity and consistency in methodologies to measure portfolio alignment with decarbonization, CLFI is exploring the challenges of financed emissions methodologies and will provide recommendations to strengthen financial institutions’ alignment methodologies.

Articulating the financing pathways for regional energy transition projects

CLFI has identified unique opportunities and shared challenges in addressing climate finance gaps and advancing regional energy strategies across four key regions.
Analyzing SDGs

Analyzing SDG-linked sovereign bonds

CLFI will assess the viability of sustainability-linked sovereign bonds to provide a more sustainable form of financing for lower income countries, and will consider aspects of their design that could make them more effective in increasing access to finance for SDG- and climate-aligned investment in particular.

Supporting development of climate-aligned capital allocation and investment strategy

CLFI is reviewing climate change dimensions relevant to investment portfolio decision making, to help a pension fund better understand the potential impact of ESG factors on long-term value creation and effective risk management within its investment portfolio.

Modeling climate litigation risk for (re)insurers

CLFI’s research and analysis provides guidance on how to build quantitative models of climate change litigation risk for (re)insurers.
ICRRL

Driving the recognition of climate risk and resilience through legal innovation, scholarship, and practice

Via collaboration with partners on the Initiative on Climate Risk and Resilience Law (ICRRL), CLFI supports state and federal regulatory efforts to address climate-related financial risk. Learn more about ICRRL's work here.
Terraced rice field in Mu Cang Chai, Vietnam

Mapping the landscape of antitrust and sustainability

CLFI is working to bring clarity to the intersection of antitrust and sustainability.
Offshore construction platform for production oil and gas

Regulatory improvements to allocate liability for decommissioning offshore oil and gas infrastructure

CLFI examined the laws, regulations, and contracts governing the allocation of liability to help governments avoid having to foot the bill for private costs.
Strengthening the transparency and carbon accounting of regulating fossil fuel asset sales

Strengthening the transparency and carbon accounting of regulating fossil fuel asset sales

By selling fossil fuel assets, companies can claim progress towards net zero goals even if this does not translate into lower emissions in the real economy.

Supporting net-zero alignment of the financial sector

Outlines the limitations of bottom-up approaches to achieving decarbonization goals while focusing on the things the financial sector can do even in the absence of a robust long-term public policy framework.

Analyzing the drivers and constraints of investment in renewables

Two papers and an expert interview series on investment in renewable energy in developing countries provide actionable recommendations to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.

Centered at both the Law School and Climate School at Columbia University, the Climate Law and Finance Initiative draws on expertise and convening power from both Schools and across the University.

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