The financial sector is increasingly aware of climate risks. It is not clear, however, how that translates into their decision-making. To see how climate transition risks factor into financial decisions impacting tropical soft commodities, Orbitas partnered with PwC...
Scenario analysis is a critical building block for assessing climate transition risks. Orbitas, in partnership with Vivid Economics, has published Transition Scenarios for Tropical Commodities, which presents the results of our macroeconomic scenarios for tropical...
International investors are starting to see Brazil in a new light. The Bolsonaro government’s short-term focus on boosting agricultural production is hitting up against global finance’s increased awareness of the risks posed by ignoring the low-carbon transition. With...
What are climate transitions risks? Climate transitions are the efforts undertaken to tackle climate change (directly or indirectly) through policies, commitments and changing consumer preferences and that directly or indirectly affect a company’s GHG emissions. These...
COVID-19 shows the strain governments face during an unexpected crisis and the knock-on impact this has on the sovereign debt ratings and ability to raise capital of those least able to weather the storm. This offers a preview for a decade where climate transitions...
How governments, consumers and businesses respond to climate change matters. The nature and scale of their responses will determine the impacts of both the climate emergency itself and the disruption felt by the economy as a result of new policies, commitments and...
“Stranded Assets”. “ESG”. If I were writing this article in 2000, these terms would barely register. But in 2020, they have both, in their own way, shaped investors’ thinking about making finance sustainable. Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) metrics allow...
Production of tropical commodities is financed using a variety of instruments. These financial instruments together channel billions into funding tropical commodities. Tropical commodities attract billions of dollars in funding. Despite gaps in data, the scale of this...
Capital providers are deeply engaged in financing tropical commodities. An initial sample of companies, drawn from prior research by Chain Reaction Research, reveals over $80 billion in current financing for key tropical commodities....