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