Investors willing to pay a little more for green bonds
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Green investors often boast that they can support sustainability without sacrificing returns. But new research from Texas McCombs suggests otherwise. It also offers governments opportunities to raise more money from those investors for sustainable projects.
In Germany’s sovereign bond market, buyers are quietly paying a premium for green bonds — by accepting lower yields on them. So finds Aaron Pancost, assistant professor of finance, who calls the difference a “greenium.”
New Stanford-led research traces a direct line from warmer, wetter weather to a mosquito-borne disease epidemic. The findings could help inform policy and interventions to blunt such outbreaks.
New research suggests the endangered smalltooth sawfish may be returning to a critical nursery habitat in the Indian River Lagoon after decades of decline. Following mysterious “spinning fish” events that likely killed hundreds in the Florida Keys, scientists tracked juvenile sawfish and found they repeatedly used the same shallow, mangrove-lined stretch of river across seasons and years. The discovery indicates the habitat may again support early survival – and that protecting these specific areas and improving water quality could be key to the species’ recovery.