Just Transitions

Researchers at Croatan Institute are modeling a variety of pathways to a future that transcends today's over-reliance on carbon-intensive fossil fuels. These efforts range from designing fossil-free investment portfolios to exploring the requirements for a more robust reinvestment ecosystem to support just transitions beyond extractive economies.
Projects
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REEFS is an initiative coordinated by Croatan Institute with a growing group of advisers and partners seeking to address structural racism within finance and to integrate racial equity as an explicit factor of analysis and engagement within total portfolio approaches to investing for social impact.
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Advising foundations on how to divest from fossil fuels and invest in a clean energy economy.
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Developing educational fossil-free portfolios using a total portfolio approach to investing in climate solutions.
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Re-envisioning organic food and agriculture as an inclusive economic development strategy for revitaling rural places.
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Helping investors examine climate change through various interconnected approaches: integrating climate change into your investments; reducing your portfolio’s carbon intensity, investing in climate solutions, divestment; engaging with corporations, and engaging with policymakers.
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Exploring the relevance of the growing movement for fossil-fuel divestment and fossil-free reinvestment to the “Appalachian Transition.”
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Modeling multiple pathways for colleges, foundations, and other endowed institutions to divest from fossil fuels and invest in a more resilient future.
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Developing a framework for institutional investors to invest in clean energy bonds.
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Helping investors select impact strategies and adopt core metric sets to track performance toward their goals.
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