Call for papers: The 2023 International Conference on Sustainability, Environment, and Social Transition in Economics and Finance

05 Jul 2023

The 2023 International Conference on Sustainability, Environment, and Social Transition in Economics and Finance (SESTEF 2023) jointly organized by Southampton Business School (University of Southampton, UK), Audencia Business SchoolUniversity of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and Paris School of Business with the support of Gaia (Audencia Business School), Center of Research for Energy and Climate Change – CRECC (Paris School of Business), Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, the UMI SOURCE (Joint International Research Unit Sustainability and resilience, University of Paris-Saclay), and the Universitas Sebelas Maret (Indonesia) will take place on December 14, 15, and 16, 2023 in Southampton, UK. The event aims to provide academics, policymakers, and practitioners with a valuable forum for discussion and critical analysis of the major issues and challenges that interrelate energy, environment, sustainability, social transition, economics and finance.

The conference organizers would like to invite the submission of both theoretical and empirical papers relating to all aspects of climate finance, sustainability, environment and social transition. The main topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Analysis of renewable and non-renewable resources and resource policy
  •  Analysis of environmental policy
  •  Analysis of the carbon cycle
  •  Business/Corporate Sustainability/Resilience and Digital/Financial Technology
  •  Climate risks: management and regulation
  •  Climate corporate finance
  •  Corporate finance for energy companies
  •  Corporate social responsibility and sustainability
  •  Degradation of natural resources and health problems caused by pollution
  •  Econometrics of energy markets
  •  Electricity networks, smart-grids, electricity demand
  •  Energy and environmental economics
  •  Energy and financial market interactions
  •  Energy and environmental issues in developing and emerging market countries
  •  Energy policies for low carbon transportation
  •  Energy transition
  •  Environmental behaviour and responses to regulation
  •  Environmental issues and natural resources
  •  ESG investment, performance, and reporting
  •  Financial and economic analysis of energy markets
  •  Green banking, finance, and insurance
  •  Green investments and financial instruments
  •  Hydroelectricity and water management
  •  Intergenerational choices under global environmental change
  •  Low carbon economy
  •  Low carbon and renewable technologies
  •  Natural resources, risk, welfare, and social preferences
  •  Socially responsible investment
  •  Sustainable development and sustainable finance
  •  Topics of agricultural economics related to the environment
  •  Topics of energy economics related to the environment
  •  Valuation techniques and novel applications in the environment
  •  Weather derivatives

Interested authors can submit their Extended abstracts or complete papers (in PDF files), no later than July 15, 2023 via the conference website: Submit a Paper

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