Orbitas Insights

What Are Climate Transition Risks?

What are climate transitions risks? Climate transitions are the efforts undertaken to tackle climate change (directly or indirectly) through...
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COVID and Climate will Challenge Tropical Country Sovereign Bondholders

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...
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Climate Transition Risks For Tropical Commodities

How governments, consumers and businesses respond to climate change matters. The nature and scale of their responses will determine the impacts of...
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New Risks, New Opportunities: Extending the case for responsible investment to tropical forest agriculture

“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,...
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Financial Linkages In Tropical Commodities

Production of tropical commodities is financed using a variety of instruments. These financial instruments together channel billions into funding...
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Financial Flows Into Tropical Commodities

Capital providers are deeply engaged in financing tropical commodities. An initial sample of companies, drawn from prior research by Chain Reaction...
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