2024 International Symposium on Climate, Finance, and Sustainability

OVERVIEW

Climate change, resource depletion, technological disruption, and social inequalities are all pressing issues. How we have approached these problems may no longer be sufficient. The urgency of climate action, the need for sustainable development, and the critical role of finance in achieving both are unprecedented challenges. New situations call for new ways of thinking to mitigate climate change through financial solutions and sustainable investments and adapt to its impacts by building resilience and securing financial resources.

Given these perspectives and imperatives, we are pleased to announce the 2024 International Symposium on Climate, Finance, and Sustainability (ISCFS-2024). Jointly organized by AVSE Global, EMLV Business School, and Paris Dauphine University - PSL (Climate Economics Chair), in partnership with the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge and the UMI SOURCE at the University of Paris-Saclay, the Symposium aims to bring together a global community of leaders, experts, and innovators to address the above-mentioned interconnected issues. It also intends to be a focal point for new thoughts, developments, and challenges interrelating climate, finance, and sustainability.

The Symposium will take place IN-PERSON on 21-22 November 2024 at Paris Dauphine University, Paris, France.

DISTINGUISHED GUEST SPEAKER

Amélie de Montchalin

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of France to the OECD, Minister for Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion of France (2022), Minister of Public Transformation and Service (2020-2022), and Secretary of State for European Affairs (2019-2020)

Ambassador Amélie de Montchalin took up her duties as Permanent Representative of France to the OECD in Paris on 30 November 2022, and is since March 2024 also Chair of the Governing Board of the OECD Development Center.

Ms de Montchalin holds degrees in economics from the University of Paris-Dauphine and HEC Paris, in history from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne and in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.

An economist by training, she worked on inflation, economic financing, and systemic risk management issues at the time of the Eurozone crisis at Exane BNP Paribas and then within the management of the AXA Group as Director of Foresight and Public Policy. She actively participated in 2015-2016 in the work on the financing of the ecological transition by private investors, notably within the Task Force on Climate Financial Disclosure (TCFD) and the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance.

Elected in June 2017 as Députée for Essonne, member of the Finance Committee, she was responsible for the budget for the presidential majority in the National Assembly and special rapporteur for the Research and Innovation budget for 2018 and 2019.

She joined the French government in March 2019 as Deputy Minister for European Affairs, where she is leading, among other things, the negotiations on Brexit and the preparatory negotiations for the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union. She is also the secretary general for Franco-German cooperation.

She became Minister for Public Service and Public Sector Reform in July 2020, where she led the reform of the senior civil service and the transformation of public services in the face of COVID-19 and its consequences. She was appointed Minister for the Environment in May 2022.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Bertrand Badré

Managing Partner and Founder, Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital, Author of Can Finance Save the World & Former Managing Director of the World Bank

Bertrand Badré is Managing Partner and founder of Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital. Previously, Bertrand was Managing Director and CFO of the World Bank. Prior to joining the World Bank, he was Chief Financial Officer of Société Générale and Crédit Agricole and was a member of President Jacques Chirac's diplomatic team as the President's Deputy Personal Representative for Africa. He worked for seven years at Lazard, in New York and London, and then in Paris as a managing partner where he co-led the successful restructuring of Eurotunnel. He began his career in Paris as a Finance Inspector. He currently sits on the board of Wealth Simple, a Canadian fintech asset management company and is a non-executive member of the Board of Getlink (Eurotunnel Group). Bertrand wrote the book "Money Honnie, si la finance sauvait le monde?", of which the English version "Can Finance Save the World?" is prefaced by President Emmanuel Macron and Gordon Brown and translated into several languages. More recently he wrote the book "Voulons-nous (sérieusement) changer le monde ?", with a preface by Erik Orsenna. He has led the publication of several reports; namely "From Billions to Trillions": MDBs contributions to development financing" and in 2004, he wrote "Eau" with Michel Camdessus, on finance and access to water, translated into Spanish and Portuguese. Bertrand is a graduate of ENA, SciencesPo and HEC. He is a regular speaker at universities such as Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Princeton and Oxford.

Ben Caldecott

Director, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group; Member, UK Climate Change Committee, United Kingdom & Chair, Advisory Group, International Transition Plan Network (ITPN)

Dr. Ben Caldecott specialises in environment, climate, energy, and sustainability issues and works at the intersection between finance, public policy, and academia, having held senior roles in each domain. Dr. Caldecott is the founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group and the Lombard Odier Associate Professor of Sustainable Finance at the University of Oxford. Ben is also the founding Director and Principal Investigator of the UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment (CGFI), established by UK Research and Innovation in 2021 as the national centre to accelerate the adoption and use of climate and environmental data and analytics by financial institutions internationally. He is a Visiting Professor at the Wealth Management Institute in Singapore.

From 2022, he co-led the Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) that merged into the IFRS Foundation in October 2024. In November 2024, he became Chair of the International Transition Plan Network (ITPN) Advisory Group. ITPN was launched at COP29 to support the development of global norms for transition plans by the private sector and to support climate policy that makes the best use of transition plans. From 2019, he was seconded to the UK Cabinet Office to work on COP26 in Glasgow as the COP26 Strategy Advisor for Finance. He currently serves as a Trustee of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and on the UK Climate Change Committee, as well as on DBS Bank’s Board Sustainability Committee, UK Export Finance’s Export Guarantees Advisory Council, and the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) Technical Council.

TOPICS

The conference organizers would like to invite the submission of theoretical, empirical, and policy-related papers (in PDF files) relating to all aspects of energy transition, environmental sustainability, banking, climate finance, financial markets, and the macroeconomy. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Carbon Finance and Taxes
Climate Finance
Climate Negotiations and Scenarios
Climate Risk and Disclosures
Climate-resilient Economies
Energy Derivatives: Pricing and Hedging
Energy Markets: Modeling, and Forecasting
Energy, Environment, and Climate Models
Financial and Economic Analysis of Energy Markets
Financial Regulation of Energy and Environmental Markets
Green Finance and Sustainable Investment
Just Energy Transition
Macroeconomic Implications of Net-Zero Carbon Emissions
Natural Resources, Risk, Welfare and Social Preferences
Renewable Energy
Regulation and Energy Governance
Role of Financial Institutions in Sustainability

For more details: http://iscfs2024.sciencesconf.org/.

PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES

Special issue of Energy Economics on “Impacts of Geopolitical Conflicts on Regional Energy Security and Consequences for the Global Economy” under the Guest Editorship of Hung Do (School of Economics and Finance, Massey University, New Zealand), Duc Khuong Nguyen (EMLV Business School, France), and Russell Smyth (Monash University, Australia)

Special issue of Journal of Forecasting on “Forecasting Carbon Prices in an Integrated Market Network” under the Guest Editorship of Hung Do (School of Economics and Finance, Massey University, New Zealand), Linh Nguyen (Nottingham University Business School, United Kingdom), and Thomas Walther (Utrecht University’s School of Economics, The Netherlands)

Special issue of Resources Policy on "Issues and Use of Rare Earth Elements in Energy Transition" under the Guest Editorship of Stéphane Goutte and Lisa Depraiter (University of Paris Saclay, France)

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