Climate and Nature Economic Policy Scenarios: Reflections from the Exeter Climate Forum

During the 2026 Exeter Climate Forum, held on the University of Exeter’s Streatham Campus from 29 June, Jean-François Mercure and Hector Pollitt launched their new book, Rethinking Climate Policy: Innovation and the Economics of Resource Creation (Cambridge University Press).

Climate and Nature Economic Policy Scenarios: Reflections from the Exeter Climate Forum

The Exeter Climate Forum 2026 hosted a series of discussions with the Climate and Nature Economic Policy Scenarios (CNEPS) initiative — a collaboration convened by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the University of Exeter. CNEPS aims to help ministries of finance and public development banks build scenario tools designed for their own decisions, as climate and nature move to the centre of macroeconomic and fiscal policy.

New partnership with Agence Française de Développement

The University of Exeter is to partner with France’s international development agency on a new programme supporting countries in the Global South with their economic policy in the face of climate change.

The University will work with Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and finance ministries around the world to strengthen the macroeconomic analytical tools available to governments.

Governing Under Radical Uncertainty: Why Fiscal Authorities Need Climate and Nature Scenarios December 10, 2025

How should Ministries of Finance govern in an economy undergoing structural transformation, technological disruption, escalating climate impacts and geopolitical fragmentation?

In this article, we examine one of the core economic issues of the 21st century, discussed at a recent workshop with the OECD and AFD, in collaboration with NGFS, CFMCA and FiCS.

Blog: The Profitable Market for Climate Risk-Washing

Climate change is killing people now, yet financial risk models still treat it as a problem for decades away. We explore who generates climate-risk evidence, for whom, and under whose incentives, and why for-profit data providers may be unable to resist selling risk-washing as a service.