8th Edition of the Ethical Finance & Sustainability

efs2025 : 8th Edition of the Ethical Finance & Sustainability

8-9 May 2025 Edinburgh (United Kingdom)

Overview

The 8th Edition of Ethical Finance and Sustainability (EFS) Conference (EFS-2025), jointly organized by the EDC Paris Business School, Edinburgh Napier University (UK), Heriot-Watt University (UK), and CY Paris Cergy University, will take place on 08-09 May 2025 in Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.

The achievement of the seventh sustainable development goal SDG#7 (i.e., affordable, and clean energy) aims at providing access to affordable and clean energy- promoting renewable energy production and use as an alternative to the extensive use of conventional pollutant energy resources. The Paris agreement of 2015 signals a further development in global cooperation to tackle the problem of climate change. Paris was a major symbolic milestone, involving agreement from major emitters and most sovereign nations to work to reduce carbon emissions, ideally to maintain average global temperatures to 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels, but if not then 2° C. Each country has set “Nationally Determined Contributions” (NDCs) and set out plans to (in some cases eventually) achieve reductions in accordance with these NDCs. Moreover, many countries have subsequently committed to achieve net-zero emissions by mid-century. The critical question today focuses on the adequacy of targets and policies to achieve them. Technology transfer, rapid investment, and abundant finance are widely considered crucial, though many other questions remain regarding “just transition” and other issues. In any case, it seems highly likely that achieving targets will require a major shift in socioeconomic and financial activity. Clearly, there is great need for academic engagement across the sciences and social sciences.

It is also important to keep in mind that climate policy does not occur in a vacuum. Societies and economies already have existing infrastructure, economic foci, and ingrained structures. Transitions risks conflicts with some of these, exacerbating manifest problems, which in turn may reduce public commitment to change and fragment any emerging political consensus. The recent cost of living crisis induced by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is only the latest and most high profile of possible problems. Overall, these period of turmoil shared some common conditions in terms of excessive profits, savings, capital flows, outsourcing and sweated labour to environmental crimes and accounting scandals, climate destruction, corruption, challenging the business ethics.

With all of this in mind, contributions to the conference are expected to yield formative findings which will have profound implications for a wide range of stakeholders including policymakers, corporate decision makers, national and supranational organisations and civil society. We invite authors to submit proposals covering these topical issues related to the green finance, ESG investments, Cliamte change finance, Transition & Sustainbaility, Business ethics, CSR, Energy transition, and green investments to submit their works. Authors will be expected to participate in the conference and papers will be eligible for publication, subject to editorial review. We cordially invite academics, practitioners, and policymakers who address these issues to submit papers.

Keynote speakers

Prof. John W. Goodell

John W. Goodell is a Professor in the College of Business of The University of Akron. His research interests focus on the impact on financial systems of national culture, and institutions. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Research in International Business and Finance; as well as an Associate Editor for several leading finance journals. He is frequently invited to international conferences and events as keynote speaker.

Professor Goodell’s work has gained significant attention, featuring in major media outlets such as The Washington Post, PBS NewsHour, and Bloomberg Businessweek, as well as the blogs of Columbia University and Duke University law schools. Since earning his Ph.D. from Kent State University in 2008, he has co-authored over 200 scholarly articles and book chapters. His work is published in leading journals like Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, British Journal of Management, International Business Review, Journal of Financial Stability, Corporate governance: An international review, Energy Economics, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, European Financial Management, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and International Review of Financial Analysis.

Prof. Richard S.J. Tol

Richard S.J. Tol MAE is a Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Sussex, the Professor of the Economics of Climate Change, Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and a Research Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute, CESifo, the Payne Institute for Public Policy, and Abu Dhabi University’s College of Business. He is an elected Member of the European Academy. Formerly, he was a Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, the Michael Otto Professor of Sustainability and Global Change at Hamburg University and an Adjunct Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. He has had visiting appointments at the Canadian Centre for Climate Research, University of Victoria, British Colombia, at the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, University College London, and at the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Department of Economics, Princeton University. He holds an M.Sc. in econometrics (1992) and a Ph.D. in economics (1997) from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is ranked among the top 100 economists in the world and among the top 100 most-cited climate scholars. He has 310 publications in learned journals (with 100+ co-authors). He specialises in the economics of energy, environment, and climate, and is interested in scientometrics and integrated assessment modelling. He is the editor-in-chief for Energy Economics, a top field journal. He is working on the fourth edition of the only textbook on the economics of climate change and is about to publish a textbook on environmental economics. He is advisor and referee of national and international policy and research. He was an author of Working Groups I, II and III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, shared winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007.

Publication opportunities

1) EUROPEAN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

SI:"Banking in the Era of Climate Risk and Sustainability"

Deadline : 30 june 2025.

Guest Editors: Zied Ftiti, Wael Louhichi, & Steven Ongena,

2) Research in International Business and Finance

SI: Ethical Finance & Sustainability

Guest Editor: Prof. Zied FTITI

3) Energy Economics

SI: "The Evolving Economics of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Developing Economies: Integrating the Social Cost of Carbon into Policy and Practice"

Guest Editors: Boqiang Lin and Anna Min Du

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