Lazard Climate Center
The Lazard Climate Center provides insights and tools for business leaders and investors to integrate climate change considerations into strategic decisions and corporate finance.
As the private sector accelerates efforts regarding climate change and the energy transition, the Lazard Climate Center seeks to address knowledge gaps and serve as a partner to companies and investors looking to understand how best to navigate these trends.
Areas of Research
● Effect of GHG Emissions on Corporate Valuations
● The Evolving Role of Carbon Offsets
● Climate Sentiment Analysis
● Quantifying Granular Climate Risk
● Investor Environmental Taxonomy
Climate change affects all sectors of our global economy and creates new, evolving risks for companies as well as for investors. Lazard looks forward to being a driving force in data-driven insights as business leaders, investors and policy makers tackle the climate crisis in the years and decades to come.
Webcast: COP27 and Climate Change
November 2022
Zachery Halem, Director of the Lazard Climate Center, and Joseph Aldy, Professor of the Practice of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Lazard Senior Advisor, joined Peter Orszag to discuss the potential implications for corporations arising from COP27, the SEC’s proposed climate disclosure rule, and the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in the U.S.
