Stranded Assets and the Environment

Ben Caldecott is the Founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme at the University of Oxford, UK. He has pioneered key concepts in his field, including the concept of ‘stranded assets’ and is the leading academic researcher in this area internationally.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of BoxesList of ContributorsForeword PrefaceAcknowledgements1. Introduction: stranded assets and the environment By Ben Caldecott2. Stranded assets: then and nowBy Dimitri Zenghelis, Roger Fouquet and Ralph Hippe3. The ‘decarbonisation identity’: stranded assets in the power generation sectorBy Alexander Pfeiffer4. Stranded assets: an environmentally-driven framework of sunk costs By Elizabeth Harnett5. The stranding of upstream fossil fuel assets in the context of the transition to a low-carbon economyBy Jakob Thomä6. Examining stranded assets in power generation: coal, gas and nuclearBy Daniel J. Tulloch7. Understanding climate-related stranded assets in the global real estate sectorBy Kevin Muldoon-Smith and Paul Greenhalgh8. Knowing the risks: how stranded assets relate to credit risk assessment and the debt marketsBy Michael Wilkins9. An introduction to directors’ duties in relation to stranded asset risksBy Sarah Barker10. Climate change: what implications for central banks and financial regulators? By Sandra Batten, Rhiannon Sowerbutts and Misa Tanaka11. Diversifying stranded asset risks by investing in ‘green’: mobilising institutional investment in green infrastructureBy Christopher R. Kaminker 12. Stranded assets as economic geography: the case for a disciplinary home?By Ben Caldecott13. Next steps for stranded assets and the environmentBy Ben Caldecott

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