Environmental Finance and Risk Management (Community Matters)
Channel: ThinkTech Hawaii
Date: 2021-07-07

Financial modeing to meet environmental challenges.  The host for this episode is Jay Fidell.  The guest for this episode is Ray King Burch.

Ray King Burch is associated with the Institute of Environment at Florida International University where he provides research and strategic advice to assist the creation of the Environmental Finance and Risk Management  academic program.

The EFRM program seeks to meet our most pressing environmental challenges by applying advanced financial modeling and data analytics to the variety of environmental data that policy makers 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." 


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