Understanding the shadow impacts of investment and divestment decisions: Adapting economic input-output models to calculate biophysical factors of financial returns

Ecological Economics

Volumn 106, Issue , 2014, Pages 132-140

  Ritchie, J ^a   Dowlatabadi, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Divestment; Economic input output; Financed emissions; Financial holdings

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; CARBON EMISSION; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INVESTMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84905910803     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.07.005     Document Type: Article

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