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Improving climate change models for investments - AllianceBernstein

Gauging the potential impacts of climate change on a company’s valuation or portfolio performance is extremely difficult; at AB, they've partnered with Columbia University’s Earth Institute to conduct an extensive review of existing climate change scenario-analysis providers and their various approaches.

Posted on Feb 11, 2021

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... Their unique collaboration with Columbia University’s Earth Institute can generate cutting-edge insights into a nascent industry with imperfect data, which aims to gauge the potential impacts of climate change on a company’s valuation or portfolio performance.

As investors face increasing pressure to report on their exposures to climate change risk, understanding the discrepancies in this first generation of commercially available scenario analyses is the first step toward developing better tools.

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