This list includes a selection of the latest research on Climate Finace posted to SSRN in 2026. 

• Detailed land cover transitions for better decisions: EO as support for sustainability-linked financing by Ignacio Borlaf-Mena (TU Wien), Angel Fernandez-Carrillo (GMV), Macarena Mérida-Floriano (GMV), Carlos Domenech (GMV), Dieter Wang (World Bank), Veerle de Smit (World Bank) and Clément Albergel (European Space Agency Climate Office) 

• Environmental-Economic Accounting, Extinction Risk, and Financing: A SEEA EA Application for Forest Ecosystems in Hawaiʻi by Louis Chua (University of Hawaii at Manoa), Kawika Winter (University of Hawaii at Manoa) and Kirsten Oleson (University of Hawaii Manoa)  

• Return to Nature: Biodiversity Loss and Global Stock Returns by Marloes Hagens (Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR)) and Mathijs A. van Dijk (Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR)) 

• A soft-coupling approach to transition risks with a Stock-Flow Consistent Model – Introducing FASMID by Louis Daumas (RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment; Polytechnic University of Milan) 

• Climate Regulatory Exposure and the Stock Market: Evidence from the Trump Elections by Salim Baz (Lebanese American University), Lara Cathcart (Imperial College Business School), Alexander Michaelides (Imperial College Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)), Liying Wang (University of Liverpool) and Yi Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou); Imperial College Business School) 

• A Term Structure Framework for Green Bond Spreads and Portfolio Strategies by Mohammad Hadi Sehatpour (Finance Department, UTS Business School), Marta Campi (University of Zurich) Christina Sklibosios Nikitopoulos (University of Technology Sydney – Business School; Financial Research Network (FIRN)), Gareth Peters (University of California Santa Barbara; University of California, Santa Barbara) and Kylie-Anne Richards (University of New South Wales (UNSW) – School of Mathematics and Statistics; University of Technology Sydney (UTS) – UTS Business School) 

• Mandatory Sustainability (ISSB) Reporting: Early Evidence from Türkiye by Amir Amel-Zadeh (University of Oxford – Said Business School), Thomas Bourveau (University of Oxford, Saïd Business School), Furkan M. Cetin (London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)) and Jeroen Koenraadt (London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)) 

• What Firms Actually Lose (and Gain) from Extreme Weather Event Impacts by Tobias Schimanski (University of Zurich), Glen Gostlow (University of Zurich – Department Finance), Malte Toetzke (Technical University Munich; Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition) and Markus Leippold (University of Zurich; Swiss Finance Institute)  

• What Is the Carbon Premium a Premium On? * by Marcin T. Kacperczyk (Imperial College London – Accounting, Finance, and Macroeconomics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI))  

• Powering AI: How Do Data Centers Affect Renewable Energy Investment? by By Alexander Heiss (Technische Universität München (TUM) – TUM School of Management0, Zacharias Sautner (University of Zurich – Department of Finance; Swiss Finance Institute; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)) and Thomas Schmid (The University of Hong Kong – Faculty of Business and Economics) 

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