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Financial Markets and Environmental Governance One Day Workshop
9am - 5pm, 29 May 2008, OUCE
This one day workshop will take place 9am to 5pm on Thursday 29th of May 2008 at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford University.
Sessions will be attended by invited participants, Oxford University academics and graduate students.
Background
As capital markets become integrated globally, the governance of these markets becomes increasingly relevant. Sustainable finance is an emerging discipline, which takes environmental, social governance (or ESG) factors and investigates to what extent they have material impacts on the operation and management of global capital markets.
This workshop is an novel attempt to bring experts in this emerging field of academic research together to discuss cutting edge issues in global carbon markets and sustainable finance.
Programme
| Session 1: ESG Risks and Financial Markets | |
| 9:00-9:40 | Institutional Investors, the Political Economy of Corporate Disclosure, and the Market for Corporate Social Responsibility: Implications from the UK Companies Act (2006). Gordon L. Clark and Eric Knight, University of Oxford. |
| 9:40-10:20 | Explaining the Integration of ESG Risks into Investment Decisions. Chris Wright, London School of Economics. |
| 10:20-10:40 | Break |
| Session 2: Emerging Carbon Markets and Finance | |
| 10:40-11:20 | Risk Aversion and Institutional Information Disclosure on the European Carbon Market: A Case-Study of the 2006 Compliance Event. Florian Ielpo, University of Paris 1, CES-CNRS and Dexia. |
| 11:20-12:00 | The EU Emissions Trading Scheme Disentangling the Effects of Industrial Production and CO2 Emissions on Carbon Prices. Julien Chevallier, EconomiXCNRS, University of Paris. |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:10 | The Developing Carbon Financial Service Industry: Expertise, Adaptation and Complementarity in London and New York. Janelle Knox-Hayes, University of Oxford. |
| 2:10-2:50 | New Modes of Governance in the Carbon Market. Miriam Schröder and Markus Lederer, Potsdam University. |
| 2:50-3:10 | Break |
| 3:10-3:50 | The Emergence of Global Carbon Markets and the Evolution of the International Climate Regime Bottom-up Support of Top-down Processes? Ralf Schüle, Wuppertal Institut. |
| Session 3: Financial Markets and National Institutions | |
| 3:50-4:30 | Neither National Boundaries nor Transnational Social Spaces: Accounting for Variations in Valuation of ESG Risks in Varieties of Capitalism. Kenneth Amaeshi and Catarina Figueira, Cranfield University. |
| 4:30-4:45 | Closing Remarks. |
Enquiries to Eric Knight