Financing Green Innovative SMEs: Regional Perspectives | Conference,...
This conference aims to engage practitioners, academics and policy makers in setting the agenda for financing green innovative SMEs from a regional perspective. It follows the recent UK Government...
View Article“All Models are Wrong”—The challenge of modelling ‘deep decarbonisation’|...
This briefing paper summarises the dilemma associated with using mainstream, macroeconomic models to guide disruptive, transformative change such as those that might occur under ‘deep decarbonisation’:...
View ArticleWhose Risk? Whose Responsibility? The Politics and Financialisation of...
Much of the effort in the financial world in dealing with uncertainty is exerted in repackaging or ‘taming’ it as its more manageable relation, as risk. Yet, the power and politics that flow through...
View ArticleHarnessing SME Innovation and Tackling Climate Change: Why Regional Finance...
Short summary of a green finance conference, co-hosted with the Birmingham City Business School and ISBE on 27 September, looking at support mechanisms for SME innovations geared at tackling climate...
View ArticleManaging climate risk: Next steps for UK government, investors and businesses...
There is growing awareness that business and investor plans need to better address the growing physical and regulatory risks arising from climate change and climate policy. This policy briefing is...
View ArticleClimate risk reporting: an essential tool for a net zero and resilient...
Introducing mandatory requirements for businesses and investors to disclose climate risks and what they are doing about them is an essential part of achieving net zero emissions argues CUSP...
View ArticleClosing the green finance gap—A systems perspective | Journal Paper by Sarah...
Rapid decarbonisation of the UK energy sector demands high levels of investments into low carbon energy infrastructure, which are currently not undertaken at required scale. In a new paper, CUSP...
View ArticleIs growth an illusion? | Deutsche Bank hosting event programme at #wef2020 in...
Under the title Is Growth an Illusion?, Deutsche Bank is hosting an event programme in Davos, accompanying the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum; to discuss the future of growth with leading...
View ArticleWhat progress do we want? | Tim Jackson at Parliament for the Future, OECD 22...
On 22 January, CUSP director Tim Jackson will be joining the opening panel of this year's Parliament of the Future at the OECD, Paris; with Anne Hidalgo (Mayor of Paris), Etienne Klein (Director, CEA)...
View ArticlePodcast | How to build a sustainable financial system | Lecture by Nick Robins
Never before has so much finance been committed to integrating environmental, social and governance factors into decision-making – and yet never before has so much capital been out of alignment with...
View ArticleCents and nonsense: A critical appraisal of the monetary valuation of nature...
Current controversies in valuing the cost of environmental changes like climate change and biodiversity loss have exposed serious flaws in standard welfare economics, Peter Victor writes. Many of these...
View ArticleEarly Stage Investing in Green SMEs: The Case of the UK | Journal paper by...
How might a Green New Deal be applied to the early stage financing of Cleantechs? Amidst rising interest and adoption of Green New Deals in the US, the paper explores the need for more focused policy...
View ArticleVideo: Will Endless Economic Growth End Us? | Peter Victor in TVO debate with...
End Growth, Save the Planet? CUSP-co investigator Peter Victor joined a TVO debate to examine whether endless economic expansion is unsustainable. Hosted by Steve Paikin, co-discussants included Chris...
View ArticleWhy Cleantech Investment Should be a High Priority Now and after COVID-19 |...
Prior to the COVID crisis, progression to Net Zero carbon neutral emissions was rising to the top of the policy agenda in many countries. Understandably, the global health and economic crisis has...
View ArticleVideo | Divestment: Economic, Historical, and Moral Perspectives | Panel with...
On 12 February this year, a number of student groups within Cambridge University's Christ's College hosted a panel with alumni of Christ's to share their expertise on various aspects of the divestment...
View ArticleFinance for a future of sustainable prosperity | Journal Paper by A Jones, N...
This paper presents the results of a thematic coding analysis of a workshop comprised of senior accountants and actuaries who were asked to consider how a future of sustainable prosperity can be...
View ArticleResources, Financial Risk and the Dynamics of Growth | By Roberto Pasqualino...
New book by CUSP researchers Roberto Pasqualino and Aled Jones, presenting a novel stock and flow consistent global impact assessment model (ERRE) designed by the authors to address the financial risks...
View ArticleVideo | How can we build back better after COVID? | Panel discussion w/ Tim...
Set out to engage MPs across the political spectrum, the online discussion was chaired by Krishnan Guru-Murthy (Channel 4), and expertly deliberated on the prospects for a socially and environmentally...
View ArticleA post-growth recovery?—All-Party Group letter to the UK Chancellor, 7 July 2020
Through the APPG on Limits to Growth, MPs across the political spectrum have written to the UK Chancellor, urging him to prioritise wellbeing over GDP growth statistics if his plans to rebuild the...
View ArticleThe Transition to a Sustainable Prosperity | Journal Paper by Tim Jackson and...
This paper presents a stock-flow consistent (SFC) macroeconomic simulation model for Canada. Contrary to the widely accepted view, the results suggest that ‘green growth’ (in the Carbon Reduction...
View ArticleSustainable Policy and Practice for Early Stage Cleantech Financing | Seminar...
This seminar will discuss how public policy may support and improve the level and quality of private impact investing that addresses climate change in order to deliver more effective environmentally...
View ArticleLeapfrogging to a Resilient Europe | EU policy conference w/ CUSP, 15–18 Sept...
CUSP co-hosting the EU online conference on long-term challenges from the COVID-19 crisis for the EU’s economic governance and the implementation of the Green Deal. The event is organised by the German...
View ArticlePodcast | Covid unemployment: a new crisis?—BBC World Service with Tim Jackson
Millions have been left without work as the coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate economies across the globe. How does surging unemployment complicate the global response to the pandemic? Dan...
View ArticleBuilding a #NetZero emissions economy | Report launch, 5 Oct 2020
This event will launch the latest report with our co-investigators, the Aldersgate Group, Building a net zero emissions economy: Next steps for government and business, which sets out what a credible...
View ArticleBuilding a net zero emissions economy: Next steps for government and business...
Following extensive cross-industry and civil society engagement, our partners at the Aldersgate Group published a new report, setting out some of the key policy decisions that need to be taken in this...
View ArticlePodcast | Curb excess capitalism to save nature—@BBC5Live with Tim Jackson
The possibility that we can live better, healthier and more fulfilling lives without the relentless consumption that damages the planet was one of the points of discussion when BBC presenter Nihal...
View ArticleUpskilling the UK Workforce for the 21st Century | #UpskillingUK launch, 15...
As the UK recovers from the COVID-19 crisis, it will be important to ensure that workers are equipped with the skills necessary to get them back into meaningful employment as quickly as possible. This...
View ArticleEnsuring a Post-COVID Economic Agenda Tackles Global Biodiversity Loss |...
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused dramatic and unprecedented impacts on both global health and economies. Many governments are now proposing recovery packages to get back to normal, but the 2019...
View ArticleMaking skills central to the net zero journey | Guest blog by Joan Walley
The UK's education system is far short of being fit for purpose for the goals we now must meet, Joan Walley writes: As wide scale skills deficits needs to be urgently tackled to get to net zero, our...
View ArticleRedefining SME productivity measurement for a low carbon economy | Blog by...
A new report by CUSP researchers as Middlesex University takes a holistic view of the UK cleantech finance ecosystem, drawing on the experiences of contemporary young cleantechs, investors, government...
View ArticleBiodiversity Risk, Natural Capital and actuarial practice | Blog by Aled...
A new cross-sector work programme has been launched by CUSP researcher Aled Jones together with the Institute and Faculty of the Actuaries, to take forward a series of activities including think...
View ArticleModelling Transition Risk—Towards an Agent-Based, Stock-Flow Consistent...
This working paper summarises the initial findings of a project whose aim has been to develop an agent-based (AB), stock-flow-consistent (SFC) macroeconomic framework to study the economic, financial...
View ArticleModelling Transition Risk | Blog by Tim Jackson
Tim Jackson summarises the recent TRansit project which has pioneered a novel agent-based, stock-flow consistent macro-economic model. Tim discusses the findings from the project and sets them in the...
View ArticleVideo | A Budget for a Green recovery | APPG evidence session, 24 Feb 2021
Special meeting, co-hosted by the APPG on the Green New Deal and the APPG on Limits to Growth, ahead of the budget on 3rd March explores a range of the options available to the Chancellor. Speakers are...
View ArticleThe financialisation of anti-capitalism? The case of the ‘Financial...
The Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) community consists of individuals each personally dedicated to reducing consumption, so as to build up financial surpluses that are eventually adequate to...
View ArticleCareless Finance—Operational and economic fragility in adult social care |...
Adult social care across the OECD is in crisis. Covid-19 has exposed deep fragilities. Principal amongst these is the process of marketisation and financialisation of the social care sector. In this...
View ArticleFollow the Money—how careless finance is ruining social care | Blog by...
Following the money that flows through the social care system, a new CUSP paper demonstrates how private equity firms have stacked some care home chains with shocking levels of debt and stripped them...
View ArticleEnabling transformative economic change in the post‐2020 biodiversity agenda...
A new joined-up post-Covid biodiversity policy paper argues that addressing biodiversity loss requires a transformative change of the global economic system, and concludes that the COVID‐19 pandemic,...
View ArticleAspiring Angel Investors—Supporting women tackling Climate Change | Pitch...
Having a well-functioning and clean tech ecosystem is imperative to tackling climate change. Research has shown that women are exceptionally well positioned to address big societal problems, are,...
View ArticleVideo | Financing the future: Driving Investment for net zero emissions and...
This event launched CUSP's and Aldersgate Group’s new report, Financing the future: Driving investment for net zero emissions and nature restoration, which explores the critical role of green finance...
View ArticleFinancing the future: Driving Investment for net zero emissions and nature...
In this new report, the Aldersgate Group and CUSP urge the Government to use the UK’s current leadership position on climate change and the environment, and its ongoing review of financial services...
View ArticleWhy does the impact investing market not fully work? | #AOM2021 Symposium...
While we have seen tremendous progress in creating an early-stage impact investing market, the recent COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted that we might not yet fully understand how and whether impact...
View ArticlePredatory financial tactics are putting the very survival of the UK care...
The competitive, for-profit model means investor returns have become more important than quality care and worker pay, Christine Corlet Walker writes in her opinion piece for the UK's The Guardian,...
View ArticleWhy does impact investing not (yet) work? A few reflections on a recent...
Impact investing is crucial to tackle some of our biggest problems. While we have seen tremendous progress in creating an early-stage impact investing market, there still are some problems that prevent...
View ArticleA Snapshot of the UK Social Investment Market | Report | Blog by Jess Daggers
Interest in the social and environmental ‘purpose of business’ is growing. Could it be part of a move towards a better kind of economy and what kind of investment is needed? CUSP Fellow Dr Jess Daggers...
View ArticleLessons From Government Venture Capital Funds to Enable the Transition to a...
This article addresses a pertinent question facing government policymakers: how best to support VC to achieve climate change objectives? Based on over 100 in-depth interviews, it focuses on the...
View ArticleBeyond the Debt Controversy—Fiscal and monetary policy for the post-pandemic...
In the years since the financial crisis, a heated debate has broken out amongst macroeconomists about the appropriate roles of fiscal and monetary policy in managing public sector debt. This briefing...
View ArticleWorld Scientists Warning into Action—Tim Jackson in conversation with Ed...
Press conference with Tim Jackson at the 2021 UN Climate CHange Conference, discussing zero carbon sooner, post-growth economics and #COP26 challenges. Hosted by Scientists Warning Europe, 5 November...
View ArticleTackling predatory financial practices in the adult social care sector |...
The Health and Care Bill has its second reading in the House of Lords on Tuesday 7 December. Coinciding with a new Panorama investigation, Crisis in Care: Follow the Money, this briefing proposes three...
View ArticleCrisis in Care: Follow the Money | CUSP research informing BBC Panorama...
BBC Panorama have worked extensively with CUSP researcher Christine Corlet Walker and CUSP fellow Vivek Kotecha during their investigation into the use of predatory financial practices in the adult...
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