Economics Expert, Peter Gibbard, Joins CEFGroup
CEFGroup is delighted to announce the addition of Peter Gibbard to our ever-expanding team.
Peter joined Otago in 2020 as a Lecturer in Economics. His research interests include retail electricity markets, industrial organization, competition economics, search theory, behavioural economics, and discrete-choice structural econometrics. Peter has published in leading journals including Management Science and Journal of Mathematical Economics. Before joining Otago, Peter worked as a principal economist at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (2010-2020) and, prior to that, as an Economic Analyst at the Bank of England (2001-2006).
STRAND Marsden Project News Coverage: A Shore Thing
More and more people agree that climate change is posing a serious threat to the housing market. CEFGroup and its partners are working on a $869,000 STRAND Marsden project funded by the Royal Society of New Zealand. The project received media coverage in a recent article by Stuff.
For more information, visit A Shore Thing: NZ Housing Market Unfazed by Sea Rise but Reserve Bank Preps for Change and STRAND Marsden Fund Project home page.
2nd CEFGroup Climate Finance Symposium A Smashing Success
Smiling faces all around as the 2nd Climate Finance Symposium of the year draws to a close.
Our two-day Climate Finance symposium featured eleven distinguished speakers including Olaf Adam from Westpac New Zealand, Diana V. Barrowclough and Guy Finkill from United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Andreas Hoepner from University College Dublin, Jesse M. Keenan from Tulane University, Vassili Kitsios from CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Michael Lebbon from EMMI, Martina Linnenluecke from Macquarie University, Ben Marshall from Massey University, Irene Monasterolo from EDHEC Business School, and Sanel Tomlinson from External Reporting Board (XRB). Our speakers provided valuable insights and shared their latest research in the areas of climate/ sustainable finance.
We also had 22 papers presenting across 7 themes, namely, Policy and Big Picture, Physical Risks and Asset Values, Transition Risks, Debt, Bonds and Banks, Climate Risk Disclosure and ESG, Physical Risks: Extreme Events, and SRI, Asset Allocation and Derivatives.
With the event being a smashing success, the Climate and Energy Finance Group (CEFGroup) looks forward to many more professional workshops in the coming year!
CEFGroup Director Comments on On-Farm Methane Emissions
CEFGroup Director, climate finance expert Ivan Diaz-Rainey, was invited to speak at today’s RNZ Rural News. Ivan says that the importance of cutting methane emissions seems to have been lost in proposals for how to price on-farm emissions. Two options for how farmers could pay for on-farm emissions have been released for consideration by He Waka Eke Noa – Primary Sector Climate Action Partnership. In both options, the price for methane is seperate from the carbon price, with the sector proposing the methane price should be lower to take into account that it is a shorter-lived gas. However, Ivan says this is at odds with commentary at the recent COP26 Summit in Glasgow where world leaders said urgent cuts to methane emissions were required. Ivan says a scheme that sets an affordable price for farmers won’t drive change, which will just make the transition the sector has to make later down the line more severe and abrupt.
To find out more, visit RNZ Midday Rural News for 24 November 2021 or CEFGroup Presentations.
CEFGroup Postdoctoral Fellow Invited to Speak at the 6th Green Finance Research Advances Annual Conference
CEFGroup STRAND Marsden Postdoctoral Fellow, Quyen Nguyen was invited to speak at the Green Finance Research Advance Annual Conference. The conference is the 6th edition of a yearly event co-organized by the Institut Louis Bachelier and the Banque de France, with the participation of Finance for Tomorrow and the Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE). Details of Quyen’s presentation are as follows:
- Date and Time: Wednesday 8th December, 9:15pm-9:55pm [New Zealand Time]
- Presentation Title: In Search of Climate Distress Risk
- Co-Authors: Associate Professor Ivan Diaz-Rainey and Dr. Duminda Kuruppuarachchi
- Click HERE to see the conference schedule, and click HERE to register
CEFGroup Director Chaired Panel on “Sustainable Finance and Investing” at GBSN Conference
CEFGroup Director, Ivan Diaz-Rainey chaired Panel on “Sustainable Finance and Investment” at the Global Business School Network (GBSN) Beyond: Virtual Conference Reimagine. The Panel included Professor Iain Clacher (Pro Dean for International, Leeds University Business School), Professor Andrew Karolyi (Dean & Professor of Finance, SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University) and Dr Viviane Torinelli (Co-founder, Brazilian Research Alliance on Sustainable Finance and Investment (BRASFI)).
For more information, visit GBSN Virtual Conference’s event page.
Op-Ed | CEFGroup Deputy Director on Investing in the Future
Dr. Sebastian Gehricke, CEFGroup’s Deputy Director, wrote an op-ed for the Otago Daily Times and He Kaupapa Hononga. The article provides a quick intro to sustainable finance and depicts state of the industry and emerging trends in this area. To find out more, please visit: Investing in the Future
CEFGroup Postdoctoral Fellow Shares Journey from Vietnam to a Marsden Grant
Our very own Quyen Nguyen recently shared her journey from a small town in Vietnam to her research on Climate Finance.
She believes that people cannot solely rely on measurements of the past to determine the climate risk of the future and that this will be an exciting and meaningful area of research moving forward.
Last year, Quyen helped secure the first Marsden grant that the Accountancy & Finance Department has had in 15 years. Quyen’s research in Climate Finance, especially her modelling techniques in predicting carbon footprints using the machine learning approach, generated international attention and helped her secure a long-term relationship with the Australian start-up firm EMMI.
To find out more about Quyen’s current research and the STRAND Marsden Fund project, visit CEFGroup Projects and STRAND Marsden Fund Webpage.
To find our more about Quyen’s story, visit Otago Bulletin Board – Uni News.
CEFGroup Deputy Director Invited to Talk at COREAP U3A Climate Change Session
CEFGroup Deputy Director, Dr. Sebastian Gehricke, was invited to talk at Central Otago Rural Education Activities Programme (COREAP)‘s 2021 U3A – Climate Change Session in Alexandra. In this talk, Sebastian outlined what Sustainable Finance is and its recent growth. Beyond this, he discussed what some of the barriers, risks and opportunities are and most applicably how this affects everyday New Zealanders and their personal financial well-being. Sebastian also shared some simple practical tools that can help everyday Kiwi’s improve their personal finances and take advantage of this emerging trend. Click on the poster below for more info:
COREAP Climate Change Sessions
CEFGroup PhD Paper Accepted for Presentation at The 16th Australasian Development Economics Workshop
CEFgroup PhD candidate Iftekhar Ahmed‘s paper has been accepted for presentation at the 16th Australasian Development Economics Workshop being hosted at the Monash University. Details of his presentation are as follows:
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Presentation Title: Expand or Avoid: Microfinance Credit Risk and Climate Vulnerability
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Presenter: Iftekhar Ahmed
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Date and Time: Thursday 25th November, 3:45pm-4:15pm
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Venue: Level 9, Building H, Caufield Campus, Monash University
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Register via the Event Page
