Projects
Layers of Climate Finance
Project
« Layers of Climate Finance » illustrate the PhD thesis’ work of Aneil Tripathy, postdoc in the ERC project Impact HAU. Impact HAU is hosted by the University of Bologna and led by Marc Brightman. At the core of Impact HAU, there is a new point of view on the world on finance, and especially the phenomenon of impact bonds “going green”. Indeed, the world of finance is more and more involved in financing sustainable projects.
Since 2014, Aneil has studied climate finance. In climate finance, policymakers and financiers push for investment directed towards projects seen as positive for the environment and climate. But what does it mean for a project to have a positive environmental or climate impact? Who decides? And how? And what does this mean for how the financial sector deals with climate change? The comic drawn by Matteo Farinella visually summarises all the different layers of Aneil’s PhD’s thesis.
Client
The ERC-funded project Impact HAU is an innovative, critical and comparative anthropological study of the moral and political dimensions of impact investing. Inspired by Marcel Mauss’s classic use of the Maori concept of hau, the ‘spirit of the gift’. It focuses on the designers, traders and beneficiaries of impact bonds to produce an empirically driven analysis of the multiple moral orders within contemporary capitalism.
Artist
Matteo is a neuroscientist turned illustrator and science communicator.
He has been drawing all my life: his notes from biology classes were filled with sketches, so retrospectively it is not surprising that he ended up mixing science and art. While studying for a PhD in neuroscience he started working on Neurocomic, a graphic novel about the brain. It was published by Nobrow (2013) with the support of the Wellcome Trust, and it’s now translated in over 10 languages. The success of Neurocomic lead him to discover a real passion for science communication and public engagement. Since then he did his own research on science comics, wrote another graphic novel (The Senses, 2017), a children book (Cervellopoli, 2017) and a webcomic about neuroscience for ERC Comics. He also created a Science Tarot with Massive Science, which celebrates famous women scientists. During the day he works at Columbia University, producing animations and illustrations for the neuroscience institute.
