Sleeping Financial Giants

This research project,  conducted under the initial years of GEDB,  laid the foundations of much of the work on the Earth system and sustainable finance that we conduct today. The project deployed value chain analysis and trade data to identify financial institutions who, based on current ownership patterns, are linked to tipping elements in the Earth system. Therefore, they play a particularly important role for steering away from irreversible large-scale environmental change and escalated global warming.