Professor, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University; Fellow, UK Academy of Social Sciences
Climate investment and financing is an emerging interdisciplinary research field, which will provide new ideas and opportunities for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Comprehensive urban and micro-scale carbon accounting inventories will be a prerequisite for building a climate change investment and finance system.
The Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University has played an active role in leading multi-disciplinary research on climate change. In particular, we have rich experience in developing comprehensive multi-scale carbon accounting inventories. The China Emission Accounts and Datasets, developed using crowd-sourced data, provide comprehensive, comparable, verifiable, and transparent free carbon accounting inventories. Therefore, we hope that these inventories will provide some foundational data for future scholars pursuing research on climate investment and finance.
I hope all students and teachers present will join in research on climate investment and finance, and contribute to an efficient, comprehensive and transparent climate investment and finance system in China. I wish the Climate Investment and Finance Article Call every success.
Global warming is one of the key challenges for sustainable development. Investment and finance play a key role to mitigate and adapt to climate change by increasing climate-friendly infrastructure and activities.
CICERO Center for International Climate Research is one of the world leading institutes for interdisciplinary climate research. Since 2007, CICERO has become a global leading provider of Second Opinions on green bonds, based on its advanced research on climate science.
The article call would be a great opportunity for peer researchers to exchange the latest research achievement and promote the research in the field. I encourage researchers to take the opportunity and look forward to the success of the article call.
Associate Professor in Finance; Director, Climate & Energy Finance Group (CEFGroup), Department of Accountancy and Finance, University of Otago
Climate finance is a defining topic of modern times. We have set up the Climate & Energy Finance Group(CEFGroup here) at the University of Otago some years ago, and it is now one of the largest climate finance groups in the world. It is grown out of Accounting and Finance Department, and we are committed to be interdisciplinary in our approach and to produce policy-relevant research. This is more than just academic exercise. Our research is very broad-ranging. We look at energy markets from a variety of perspectives. We look at climate finance as well from a variety of perspectives. We do research on carbon markets, on clean energy finance. We have a number of projects looking at ASIEN finance of renewables. We do research on climate disclosures, and we have specialism at looking at the implications of climate change on financial institutions such as banks and micro-finance institutions. So it was a real honor when we were invited to be part of the Climate Investment and Finance Call for Articles 2020.
This is a truly exciting initiative involving some world-leading institutions and some world- leading journals from a range of areas. So we are fully committed CEFGroup to be a member of this really critical initiative and we look forward to working with leadership of the initiative to bring forward research that is cutting-edge of financing climate mitigation and financing climate adaptation. So thank you for involving us and we look forward to being part of this incredibly important initiative.