Dr Francisco Ascui

Professor Environmental Accounting: Dr Francisco Ascui

Francisco is an internationally recognised expert in environmental accounting, finance and risk management. He has a PhD in carbon accounting, an MBA and an MSc in Environmental Change and Management. He worked for ten years in international energy and carbon markets before moving into academia in 2009. At the University of Edinburgh Business School between 2009 and 2014 he co-founded and directed the Centre for Business and Climate Change and developed the world’s first MSc in Carbon Finance. In 2015 his work on carbon accounting was identified by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as one of 50 landmark research contributions over the last 50 years and in recent years he has pioneered the development of a standardised methodology for natural capital risk assessment .

Email: ff.ascui@federation.edu.au
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6036-3987

Publications

Journals

Smith, G., Ascui, F., O’Grady, A., & Pinkard., E. (2024). Indicators for measuring and reporting corporate nature-related impacts, dependencies, and risks. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 22, 100351. doi.org/10.1016/j.indic.2024.100351

Collaço de Carvalh, S.H., Cojoianu, T., & Ascui, F. (2022). From impacts to dependencies: A first global assessment of corporate biodiversity risk exposure and responses. Business Strategy and the Environment, 1-5. DOI: doi.org/10.1002/bse.3142

Muslemani, H., Ascui, F., Liang, X., Kaesehage, K., & Wilson, J. (2022). Steeling the race: ‘Green steel’ as the new clean material in the automotive sector. The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Paper: ET 09, Oxford UK. 31p. www.oxfordenergy.org/publications/steeling-the-race-green-steel-as-the-new-clean-material-in-the-automotive-sector/

Ascui, F., Ball, A., Kahn, L. and Rowe, J. (2021) Is operationalising natural capital credit risk assessment practicable?, Ecosystem Services 52 (101364): 1-13. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101364

Brander, M., Ascui, F., Scott, V. and Tett, S. (2021) Carbon Accounting for Negative Emissions Technologies, Climate Policy 12 (5): 699-717. doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2021.1878009

Cojoianu, T. F., Ascui, F., Clark, G. L., Hoepner, A. G. F. and Wójcik, D. (2021) ‘Does the fossil fuel divestment movement impact new oil and gas fundraising?’, Journal of Economic Geography 21 (1): 141-164.

Smith, G. S., Ascui, F., O’Grady, A. P. and Pinkard, E. A. (2021) Materiality assessment of natural capital risks in Australian forestry, Current Forestry Reports 7: 282-304. doi.org/10.1007/s40725-021-00147-6