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Global Climate Finance and Risks

Cornell-OFR Conference on Climate-related Risks and Financial Stability – October 25, 2024

Agenda & Videos

TimeAgenda ItemSpeaker
Chair of Morning Sessions: Dasol Kim, Office of Financial Research
8:30 a.m.Opening Remarks (video)James Martin (Office of Financial Research)
8:35 a.m.Keynote (video)Johan Rockstrom (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
8:50 a.m.Roundtable Discussion: Climate Science of Climate Risks and Economic Measurement (video)Moderator:

Panelists:

10:00 a.m.Keynote (video)Bob Litterman (Kepos Capital)
10:15 a.m.Paper Panel Discussion: Climate Finance and Carbon Taxation (video)Moderator:

Paper Presentation Panelists:

  • Federica Zeni (World Bank)
    • Paper: “Reducing Carbon using Regulatory and Financial Market Tools”
  • Lasse Pedersen (Copenhagen Business School)
    • Paper: “Carbon Pricing versus Green Finance”
  • Alexander Wagner (University of Zurich, Swiss Finance Institute)
    • Paper: “Do Investors Care About Biodiversity?”

Discussion Panelists:

Chair of Noon Session: Andrew Karolyi, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
12:00 p.m.Keynote (video)Janet Yellen (US Department of the Treasury)
12:15 p.m.Roundtable Discussion: Governments and Global Climate Financing (video)Moderator:

Panelists:

Chair of Afternoon Sessions: Alissa Kleinnijenhuis, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Imperial College London
1:30 p.m.Keynote (video)Eric Usher (UN Environment Programme)
1:45 p.m.Paper Panel Discussion: Investors and Global Climate Financing (video)Moderator:

Paper Presentation Panelists:

  • Luke Taylor (University of Pennsylvania)
    • Paper: “Green Tilts”
  • Patrick Bolton (Imperial College London)
    • Paper: “System-Wide Investing and the Just Energy Transition”
  • Marcin T. Kacperczyk (Imperial College London)
    • Paper: “Carbon-Transition Risk and Net-Zero Portfolios”

Discussion Panelists:

3:30 p.m.Keynote (video)Mark Carney (Brookfield Asset Management)
3:45 p.m.Roundtable Discussion: Macroprudential Policies and Global Climate Financing (video)Moderator:

Panelists:

 

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