Category Prevention Finance

Governance, Institutional Behavior, Market Design, Prevention Finance

Can Fiduciaries Invest in Losses That Never Happen?

Climate risk may be material without its prevention being investable. Climate prevention poses an uncomfortable question for modern finance. If investing today reduces losses that never occur, can a fiduciary legitimately make that investment on behalf of beneficiaries? At first…

Sienna Shankel
July 18, 2026

Climate, Information, Prevention Finance, Verification

Climate Finance Has an Information Problem

Climate finance is often described as a capital problem. There are not enough dollars flowing into adaptation, resilience, mitigation, or disaster-risk reduction. The usual conclusion follows naturally: if the world could mobilize more capital, climate risk could be reduced faster.…

Sienna Shankel
July 12, 2026

Can Fiduciaries Invest in Losses That Never Happen?

Climate Finance Has an Information Problem

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