CALL FOR PAPERS - 3rd CEFGroup Climate Finance Symposium (hybrid event)
Event page: https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/cefg/call-for-papers-3rd-cefgroup-climate-finance-symposium/
Important dates:
- Event dates: Thursday 24th November - Friday 25th November 2022 (New Zealand Time)
- Submission deadline: Monday 3rd October 2022
- Notification of acceptance (latest): Friday 21st October 2022
Paper submission method: Email your full paper to CEFGroup@otago.ac.nz by Monday 3rd October 2022. Making clear: (i) whether you are a student; and (ii) identify yourself as either a virtual attendee (please let us know what time zone you are in) or an in-person attendee.
Registration fees:
- Submission cost: 0 NZD
- Conference cost: The event is FREE for online participants. For those attending in person that are non-Otago staff, a 50 NZD per day catering fee applies. This fee does not apply to PhD students. We can help arrange accommodation at one of the university’s residential colleges.
Symposium venue:
- In person: Seminar Room 1.17, Otago Business School, 60 Clyde Street, Dunedin, 9016, New Zealand; or
- via Zoom (please fill in the registration form, link below. A Zoom link will be sent to you when it gets closer to the time)
Keynote speakers:
- Jacquelyn Humphrey [Australia], Associate Professor in Finance, The University of Queensland | Topic: Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Sustainable Finance
- Tae Yong Jung [South Korea], Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), Yonsei University | Topic: A Short Summary of Investments and Finance Chapter of the IPCC AR6 (WG 3)
- Kerstin Lopatta [Germany], Chair Professor in Financial Accounting, Auditing & Sustainability, University of Hamburg | Topic: European Sustainability Reporting Standards – Current Developments
- Martien Lubberink [New Zealand], Associate Professor in Accounting and Capital, Victoria University of Wellington | Topic: Climate Change Funding: The Role of Banks and Central Banks
- Muhammad Nadeem [New Zealand], Senior Lecturer in Accounting, University of Otago | Topic: Past Developments, Current Trends & Future Challenges of Sustainability Accounting and Reporting
- Ulrich Volz [United Kingdom], Professor in Economics and Founding Director of the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance, SOAS University of London | Topic: Central Banking in the Anthropocene
Areas of special interest: See below
We particularly solicit papers in following topics and welcome those with a focus on in Asia and Australasia:
- Application of machine learning to energy and climate finance
- Biodiversity and blue (ocean) finance
- Blended finance to meet SDG goals
- Carbon pricing and carbon markets
- Climate risk in banking and insurance sectors
- Climate-related financial risk measurement, including stress testing methods and scenario analyses
- Climate related engagement (shareholder resolutions and litigation)
- Climate change and property values
- Electricity markets
- ESG investing
- Estimates of climate financing needs at firm, country and regional levels
- Financial innovations to enable green finance
- Financing energy efficiency investments (e.g. passive houses and deep retrofits)
- Financing renewable energy and electrification of transport
- Green, transition, catastrophe and SDG bonds
- Greening publics finances (e.g. 2021 green budget in France)
- Green taxonomies
- Greenwashing analyses and critiques
- Impact investing
- Innovative forward looking methods in sustainable finance
- Net-zero portfolio management
- Spatial finance (GIS, remote sensing etc.) application to sustainable finance
- Stranded assets risk
- Sustainable finance education
- Surveys related to sustainable finance
- TCFD reporting and climate disclosures
Event contact name: Climate and Energy Finance Group (CEFGroup)
Event contact email: cefgroup@otago.ac.nz
Host institution: Climate and Energy Finance Group (CEFGroup), University of Otago
Registration link: https://events.otago.ac.nz/2022-cef-groupsymposium/registration/Site/Register
Registration deadline: Thursday 24th November 2022