Climate Finance and Sustainable Energy Transitions Workshop 2022
Climate Finance and Sustainable Energy Transitions : Landscape for Change?
The Enabling Environment for Climate Finance and Investment: Barriers, Complexity, and Pathways
Mobilising Climate Finance : Power, Justice and Governance
Climate Finance and Sustainable Energy Transitions Workshop 2022
Call for Papers - Climate Finance and Sustainable Energy Transitions
Journal of Asian Economics (SSCI, Q2) will publish a special issue on "Climate Finance and Sustainable Energy Transition" and invite contributions from the academic community. Further details will be released on the website of Journal of Asian Economics.
About the event
The UK-China Climate Finance and Sustainable Energy Transitions Workshop facilitated interdisciplinary dialogues, collaborations and shared learning on topics at the intersection of financial and regulatory responses to sustainable energy transitions.
Themes of the workshop will included:
- The role of climate finance for an equitable energy transition
- Emerging issues of justice and climate finance
- The transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy
About the organisers
This half day workshop is an initiative of the University of Warwick’s Energy Global Research Priorities (GRP) in association with the Green Finance Research Center, Fudan University. The GRPs respond to complex global challenges. They unite academics from many different disciplines to address some of humanity’s most urgent questions - enabling us to improve and impact the lives of people around the world. Find out more about the Energy GRP
The Green Finance Research Center, Fudan University is founded in 2015 and managed by the School of Economics of Fudan University. The research center is committed to promoting research on sustainable development, providing decision-making consultation and education services for the government, enterprises and related stakeholders and striving to become a world-class insitute for academic research on sustainable development.
Workshop Agenda (A video recording will be available soon)
Time |
Description |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Registration and Networking |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | IntroductionSai Gu, Professor and Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor (China), University of Warwick and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering Michael Bradshaw, Professor of Global Energy, University of Warwick, Co-director of UKERC and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Industrial Carbon Neutrality and Required Investment in China Shiyi Chen, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Director of the Green Finance Research Center, Fudan University |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Climate Finance and Sustainable Energy Transitions : Landscape for Change?
Chair: Mathieu Blondeel, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Warwick
Energy Transition Risks and the Cost of Capital Xiaoyan Zhou, Academic Lead Sustainable Finance Performance, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, University of Oxford Climate Risk and Related Financial Performance in China Qiang Ji, Professor of Energy Finance at Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences Investment and Profitability David Elmes, Professor of Practice, University of Warwick
Crowding in Private Financing with Public Funds
Wing Thye Woo, Special Chair Professor of Finance at School of Economics, Fudan University and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of California, Davis Q&A Session |
| 11:00 - 11:10 | Coffee Break |
| 11:10 - 12:10 | The Enabling Environment for Climate Finance and Investment
Chair: Giorgia Barboni, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Warwick
Real effects of climate policy: financial constraints and spillovers Söhnke M Bartram, Professor of Finance, University of Warwick Carbon Risk and Corporate Financial Decisions Measurement and Evaluation of Enterprise Environmental Information Disclosure Zhiqing Li, Associate Professor of Green Finance at School of Economics and Executive Director of Green Finance Research Center, Fudan University Paris Aligned Investing Theodor Cojoianu, Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Finance, University of Edinburgh Q&A Session |
| 12:10 - 12:15 | Break |
| 12:15 - 1:15 | Mobilising Climate Finance: Power, Justice and Governance
Chair: Ludovica Gazze, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Warwick
Junjie Zhang, Associate Professor of Environmental Economics at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University and Director of the Environmental Research Center, Duke Kunshan University Private Investments, Public Goods: Regulating Markets for Sustainable Development,Celine Tan, Professor of International Economic Law and Co-director of the Centre of Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE), University of Warwick
Lena Rethel, Professor of International Political Economy and Director, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick Thoughts on the Key Issues of Local Climate Investment and Financing Pilot in China Yao Wang, Professor of Green Finance and Director of Green Finance International Research Institute, Central University of Finance and Economics Q&A Session |
| 1:15 - 2:15 | Lunch and Networking |