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Nobel-winning stock market theory used to help save coral reefs

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The Guardian

Publication Date
2021-11-30

Researchers at Australia’s University of Queensland used modern portfolio theory (MPT), a mathematical framework developed by the economist Harry Markowitz in the 1950s to help risk-averse investors maximise returns, to identify the 50 reefs or coral sanctuaries around the world that are most likely to survive the climate crisis and be able to repopulate other reefs, if other threats are absent.

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/28/stock-markets-modern-portfolio-theory-mpt-used-to-pick-coral-reefs-arks-conservation-survive-climate-crisis