Climate risk and financial markets: Value versus values perspectives

Date: Thursday, 9 January 2025 
Time: 18:30 - 20:00 SGT | 14:30 - 16:00 GMT
Online platform: Zoom
In-person venue: Gaia Auditorium, Gaia, 91 Nanyang Ave, Gaia South Academic Building, Singapore 639956

The NBS-PRI-ECGI Public Lecture Series is a new global joint initiative between Nanyang Business School (NBS), Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) and European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) to facilitate the knowledge exchanges between academics, practitioners, and policymakers in sustainable business.  

The series provides monthly in-person or online public lectures. Each lecture will feature a leading academic to present cutting-edge research of a specific topic, and an industry expert to moderate the session, sharing insights from the field and also tailoring audience questions in a way to better enable bridging the gap between research and practice. 

This inaugural lecture will provide an overview of recent financial economics research on climate finance as it relates to financial markets. Given that climate risk is an increasingly important investment risk, understanding how the risk is treated in financial markets can help inform investment decisions.  
 
Topics covered in the lecture include evidence from: 

• Surveys of investors 
• Stock markets and bond markets (including green bonds) 
• Earnings conference calls
• Household finance, e.g. real estate markets 
• Shareholder engagements 

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Speakers:

• Jun Yang, Dean of Nanyang Business School 
• Yuxia (Sarine) Zou, Assistant Professor of Accounting, Nanyang Business School 
• Laura Starks, Professor, George Kozmetsky Centennial University Distinguished Chair at UT Austin
• Joanne Khew, Director, ESG Investments, Eastspring Investments