This paper describes a new investment framework to assess public companies' “Transition Readiness”, or preparedness for a transition to a global low-carbon economy. Unlike prior low-carbon research that focuses on carbon emissions as a source of potential risk, this five-part framework is...

Background: To compare the daily costs of 3 prostaglandin analogues (bimatoprost, latanoprost, travoprost), alone, and associated with timolol in 4 European countries (Denmark, Finland, Germany, and Sweden). Methods: Six glaucoma products were sampled by buying 5 bottles from 1 suburban pharmacy...

We find evidence that water stress of physical assets is an additional component of risk for investors. The World Resources Institute (WRI) found that 1 in 5 people are living in areas at high risk of water scarcity. Recently, the WRI Aqueduct 3.0 model provided new data and insights for...

We investigate the impacts of climate change on equity investments in US Electric Utilities by evaluating market reactions around extreme weather events. We hypothesize that investment risk from climate change is already present in the market and that extreme weather events evidence this risk...

We propose that racial equity is an integral component of sustainable societies. While the concept is well defined, investors lack a set of quantifiable metrics that can be used to create a comprehensive measure of racial equity. These metrics could be applied to the investment selection process...