Principles of Transition Finance Investing: Finding Alpha in a World Adapting to Climate Change

Leverage science-based models for the identification of profitable investment theses

Principles of Transition Finance Investing: Finding Alpha in a World Adapting to Climate Change shows how to leverage science-based models used by the largest banks in the world for their climate scenario analysis exercises and turn them into useful tools for the identification of profitable investment theses for venture capital, private equity, and private credit. This book includes deep-dive examples applied to transition finance opportunities in selected areas such as geothermal energy, farmland in northern latitudes, and energy efficiency reconversion for buildings.

The book provides readers with:

• An understanding of what transition finance is and how it is the foundation of the next industrial revolution that humanity is facing in the second and third quarters of the 21st century
• The types of funds and strategies that the quantitative methodology identifies, explaining their characteristics and timeframes
• Steps to build and run an end-to-end framework of climate models for investment purposes

Principles of Transition Finance Investing: Systematic Portfolio Building in The Era of Climate Change is an essential guide for professional investors and financial practitioners to invest in a manner that will generate profit while achieving results that are good for the environment and societies.

C. ROBIN CASTELLI is Head of Transition Finance Investment at Orange Ridge Capital, a private equity firm focusing on generating investment returns from high-quality, sustainable, real assets. He is the author of Quantitative Methods for ESG Finance and an expert in identifying and hedging climate risk at the enterprise level.