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title: Climate Policy and Debt
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4806153/
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updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4806153
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4806153
featured: 2024-05-01
citations: unknown
topic: Risk, Credit & Banking
---


# Climate Policy and Debt

Research shows that climate and environmental policies significantly affect the relationship between a company's environmental impact and its credit risks and debt costs, with stricter policies increasing credit risk for polluting firms and reducing it for eco-friendly ones.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4806153
- Identifier: SSRN 4806153
- Released: 2022-11-21
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 47 (2024-05-01): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-05-01/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Risk, Credit & Banking

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