Climate Energy Governance and Finance Workshop

Join us for another Climate Energy Governance & Finance (CEGF) workshop, aimed at facilitating interdisciplinary discussions and collaborations on issues at the intersection of financial and regulatory reactions to climate risks and energy transitions.

Themes of the workshop will include, but are not limited to:

• Implications of physical and transition risks for financial markets and financial intermediaries
• Governance regimes of the climate transition
• Energy market regulation
• ESG investing
• Innovations in green finance and their role in the transition to net-zero
• Effectiveness of existing climate regulation

Jointly organised by the Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance and the Climate Law and Governance Centre, the workshop will take place on Thursday 17 March 2022 and features talks by:

• Dr Sujit Kapadia, European Central Bank
• Prof Ann Mumford, King's College London

We invite scholars in Economics, Finance, Law, and related disciplines to present work related to climate economics, regulation, and governance. Speakers will have an opportunity to engage with and receive feedback from an interdisciplinary audience. PhD students are encouraged to attend.

About the Speakers

Dr Sujit Kapadia is Head of the Market-Based Finance Division in the Directorate General Macroprudential Policy and Financial Stability of the European Central Bank. He will speak on the topic of how to empower financial markets and financial institutions to enable an orderly transition in the face of climate risk.

Prof Ann Mumford is Professor of Taxation Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London. Her work spans a variety of subjects within tax law, with a particular focus on how tax law can advance sustainability objectives. She will speak on the topic of climate taxes and their implementation.