Professor Tom Heller

Professor Tom Heller

Stanford Sustainability Finance Initiative

Thomas Heller is the Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies (emeritus) at Stanford University and the Director of Stanford’s Sustainability Finance Initiative at the Precourt Energy Institute.  From 2009-16, he founded and served as Executive Director of a non-governmental analysis group, the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI).  Since April 1, 2016 Heller has served as Board Chair and Senior Strategic Advisor to CPI. 

 

CPI is recognized globally as a leading source of empirical analysis in its core programmatic areas of climate finance, energy transitions, and transformative agriculture.  CPI assesses, evaluates and advises governments and private firms on the system dynamics and transition risks associated with technological, organizational, investment and institutional practices consistent with low carbon, high productivity economies.  CPI work programs focus on locally situated, effective uses of fiscal, monetary, prudential and financial policies that regulate the energy, land use and mobility sectors driving climate change. 

 

Heller’s recent views are briefly summarized in “Three Perspectives: Climate, Sustainability and Finance”, Precourt Institute, Stanford University.

Web tools and Projects we developed

  • Open-NEM

    The live tracker of the Australian electricity market.

  • Paris Equity Check

    This website is based on a Nature Climate Change study that compares Nationally Determined Contributions with equitable national emissions trajectories in line with the five categories of equity outlined by the IPCC.

  • liveMAGICC Climate Model

    Run one of the most popular reduced-complexity climate carbon cycle models online. Used by IPCC, UNEP GAP reports and numerous scientific publications.

  • NDC & INDC Factsheets

    Check out our analysis of all the post-2020 targets that countries announced under the Paris Agreement.