Environmental Finance & Risk Management

The Environmental Finance & Risk Management program seeks to meet our most pressing environmental challenges by applying advanced financial modeling and data analytics to the variety of environmental data that policymakers rely on for environmental resilience and adaptation strategies. It is based on the rationale that spending money is required for large-scale human-driven environmental change (e.g. land development, resource extraction and harvesting, manufacturing, distribution, disposal, cleanup, restoration). Human actions as financial transactions are essential, since "conservation without finance is just conversation." Integrating finance and natural systems can be achieved by linking financial theory and innovations to environmental sciences.

• About EFRM
• FIU Environment Forum
• Graduate Certificate in Quantitative Environmental Finance
• FIU Environmental Finance Publications
• EFRM Working Paper Series

EFRM in the News

Op-Ed

Mario Loyola, How Florida Keeps Electricity Plentiful and Rates Low
Wall Street Journal
October 4, 2024

Op-Ed

Mario Loyola, The Impossible energy 'Transition'
Wall Street Journal
December 18, 2023

Op-Ed

Mario Loyola, Clean Power? Where's Your Permit?
Wall Street Journal
August 31, 2022 

Op-Ed

Mario Loyola, Climate Policy and the Supreme Court’s Decision in West Virginia vs. EPA
Wall Street Journal
June 30th, 2022

Media

Conference: America's Energy Future

Prof. Mario Loyola hosted a Federalist Society Conference in Washington, D.C., on the topic of 'America’s Energy Future: Abundance or Scarcity?' The conference took place on May 2, 2024, at The Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. Speakers included former FERC Chairman James Danly and former EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler.

Conference Presentation

Prof. Enrique Villamor, Using Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) to Price Financial Instruments to Manage Climate Risk
University of Toronto, Fields-CFI Workshop on Impacts of Climate Change on Economics, Finance, and Insurance
Sep 21, 2022

Panel

Mario Loyola, Amber Polk, Ed Glab, Tawia Ansah
Clean Energy 2035: Within Reach or A Bridge Too Far?
Florida International University College of Law
September 13, 2022

Webinar

Mario Loyola, Overcoming the Challenges to Clean Infrastructure
The Federalist Society
July 19, 2022