The Long-Term Value at Risk Series

Physics does not negotiate. The cost of standing still is measurable at the entity level.

Nine working papers on transition readiness risk across the largest listed entities in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. Measured, not asserted. Published and citable.

Research by Joanne FlinnThinkers50 Radar 2026
~US$2.5T
Annual transition risk exposure, floor estimate
0.3%
Covered by funded transition plans
1,052
Listed entities assessed
21
Exchanges, Asia-Pacific and Middle East

The argument

Nine papers, one sentence

Transition readiness risk is real01. It persists when regulation retreats02. Cost curves date it03. It pays a dividend04. It is correlated, so diversification does not escape it05. Its architecture reverses through the long tail06. It is mislabelled as alpha where it is extracted07. It is unfunded at every altitude08. And it is fundable09.

I

The baseline

What is actually there, counted
WP-01Empirical

Transition Readiness Risk in Asia-Pacific and Middle Eastern Capital Markets

A primary assessment of 1,052 listed entities across 21 exchanges. Six risk channels, published in full. The gap between stated intention and funded readiness, priced.

Flinn & Pile

~US$2.5T

at risk. 0.3% funded.

II

The forces

Why the risk is durable, dated, and correlated
WP-02Framework

The Triple Lock

Transition pressure runs through three forces: regulatory, capital, and market. Two of them are indifferent to the regulatory weather. The risk does not retreat when the rules do.

3 locks

2 indifferent to regulation

WP-03Modelling

Merit Order Death

Wright's Law makes the energy crossover a date, not a forecast. The cost event strands capital with a lag. Dated across 17 Asian economies. The repricing window is open now.

WP-04Conceptual

The Co-Benefit Dividend

A departure from a century of externality economics. Where clean costs fall below fossil, the market retires the need to price the harm. The commercial case and the social case converge on the same decision.

~US$700

per person per year, fossil damage

WP-05Analytical

Risk 0

Climate-exposed risk is correlated, not idiosyncratic, so diversification books a benefit that does not materialise. The largest allocators have begun to recognise it: pricing the correlation lifts the modelled risk profile by an order of magnitude.

10×

risk profile, once correlation is priced

III

The response

What the risk does, and what closes it
WP-06Conceptual

The Cascade

Risk transmits down a value chain and accumulates as it travels. The same architecture carries readiness up when the bottom is engaged. The long tail is where the system turns.

Flinn & Schiller

risk down, readiness up

WP-07Conceptual

Transition Alpha

Financial, human, and planetary returns converge. The paper draws the line between value that is created and value that is extracted and mislabelled as outperformance.

real vs extracted

what counts as alpha

WP-08Empirical

Below the Disclosure Line

Transition readiness across the MSME tier that no listed frame can see. Leadership perception evidence from 900 firms over four waves. The cost-free levers that separate movers from the static.

900

MSME leaders, 2022 to 2025

WP-09Modelling

Value Chain Enablement

The working-capital case for funding supplier transition, written to the CFO and the CPO. The balance sheet is not the constraint. The decision to ring-fence the funds is.

3.9×

self-funding capacity

On method

Findings published.
Calibration held.

Every channel architecture, learning rate, and headline figure in the series is public and citable. The scoring grid, weights, and per-entity values stay proprietary. The line is deliberate. What is published is sufficient to check the argument. What is held is the instrument. The approach is verifiable without being reproducible.

Channel architecturePublished
Learning rates & crossover rangesPublished
Headline findingsPublished
Scoring grid & weightsHeld
Per-entity & per-exchange outputsHeld
Assessment platformClearSight

Read the work

The evidence is open. Evaluate it for yourself.

The series speaks to stewards of long-term capital, to exchanges and regulators whose national regime is the unit that readiness tracks, and to development and blended capital, for whom the co-benefit is the mandate. Every paper is free to read.

Start hereRead the nine papers on SSRNFull text, open access, citable. No sign-up.
Thinkers50 Radar 2026Ethics review: Prof. Mick Yates, LeedsNine papers on SSRNPublished July 2026