Contents
Role of the Financial Services Sector
The Energy Chain and the Value Chain
Impacts of Different Users and Uses on Climate Change
Sources of Energy: Fossil Fuels
Sources of Energy: Nuclear Energy
Sources of Energy: Hydroelectric Power
Financing the Transformation of the Energy Chain: The Role of Venture Capital
CHAPTER 3: Regulated and Energy-Intensive Sectors
Integrated Oil and Gas Industry
Competitive Implications of Climate Risk in Regulated and Energy-Intensive Sectors
CHAPTER 4: The Physical Impacts of Climate Change on the Evolution of Carbon Finance
Physical Impacts on Unregulated Sectors
Physical Impacts on Carbon-Regulated Sectors
CHAPTER 5: Institutional Investors and Climate Change
Institutional Investors: Size and Global Reach
Corporate Environmental Reporting
New ERA of Fiduciary Responsibility for Institutional Investors
New Momentum in the Corporate World
Barriers to the Financial Consideration of Climate Change
Institutional Investors and Climate Change
CHAPTER 6: Emissions Trading in Theory and Practice
The Role of Insurance in Emissions Trading
CHAPTER 7: Climate Change and Environmental Security: Individuals, Communities, Nations
Direct Effect of Extreme Weather Events
Health Effects of Climate Change
Climate Systems and National Sovereignty
CHAPTER 8: Adapting to Adverse and Severe Weather
Adverse Weather: The Role of Weather Derivatives
Severe Weather: The Role of Catastrophe Bonds
CHAPTER 9: Key Players in the Carbon Markets by Martin Whittaker, guest author
Key Players from the Public Sector
New Horizons for the Carbon Market
CHAPTER 10: Carbon Finance: Present Status and Future Prospects
Trading Volumes in Carbon and Weather Markets
What Can Be Traded Where? (And What Cannot?)
The Evolution of Products for Carbon Finance
Litigation Over Responsibility for Climate Change
Is Carbon Finance Likely to Help Us Avert Dangerous Levels of Climate Change?
Carbon Finance within the Broader Field of Environmental Finance