In Principles of Transition Finance Investing: Finding Alpha in a World Adapting to Climate Change, climate risk expert and investor C. Robin Castelli delivers an incisive and up-to-date discussion of how to leverage the science-based models used by the largest banks in the world for their climate scenario analysis exercises into useful tools for the identification of profitable investments. The author walks you through solutions you can apply in venture capital, private equity, and private credit contexts, showing you deep-dive examples in areas like geothermal energy, northern farmland, and energy-efficiency reconversion for buildings.

Castelli explains 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. You'll learn about the types of funds and strategies that the quantitative methodology identifies, as well as their characteristics and timeframes. Finally, you'll discover the steps you need to take to build and run an end-to-end framework of climate models for investment purposes.

The book demonstrates why model-and science-based approaches are needed to understand how economies, societies, and individual corporations will react to climate change.

Along the way, it will help you align your investing behavior with specific risk appetite statements.

Principles of Transition Finance Investing: Finding Alpha in a World Adapting to Climate Change is a powerful and essential roadmap for professional investors and financial practitioners to invest in ways that generate profit and achieve positive results for the environment and for societies.