Climate Finance and Carbon Markets
Overview
Setting this open platform for promoting collaboration in climate investment and finance aims to enable high quality research and debates, while helping society to achieve ecological civilisation development goals.听
CIFE is dedicated to improving the efficiency and the transparency of climate finance and establishing the capacity for climate change related to infrastructure management and investment.
Aims
CIFP will deliver the following activities at the early stage:听
- Launch executive education courses related to infrastructure management and climate finance (IMCF), with a focus on China
- Promote high quality researches in addressing contemporary issues in climate investment and finance
- Critically review the effectiveness of current green finance and climate investment and finance standards, and provide independent research for investors and policymakers听
- In collaboration with China Emission Accounts and Datasets (CEADs) programme to support national, sub-national and city level carbon accounting and auditing
- Develop novel business models and professional techno-economic analysis听for emerging low carbon technologies (such as CCS, green hydrogen and green building) to support the transition to net zero carbon goal听
- Be fully open to other academic, research institutes and industry partners to join the platform and share knowledge听
- Partner Institutes
- The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, University College London (Professor D鈥橫aris Coffman and Professor Dabo Guan).听
- School of Environment and Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University ( and Professor Dabo Guan)听
- Department of Civil Engineering, Hong Kong University ()听
- University of Edinburgh Business School (, , )听
- Climate Investment and Finance Association (CIFA), Chinese Society for Environment Science听
- Publications
Guo, J., F. Gu, Y. Liu, X. Liang, J. Mo and Y. Fan (2020). "" Nature Communications 11(1): 2078.
Wang, C., D. Guan and W. Cai (2019). "" One Earth 1(1): 24-26.听
Figueres, C., C. Le Qu茅r茅, A. Mahindra, O. B盲te, G. Whiteman, G. Peters, D. Guan (2018) 鈥溾. Nature, 564, 27-30
Mi., Z., J. Meng, F. Green, D. Coffman, D. Guan (2018) 鈥. Geophysical Research Letters 45(9), 4309-4318
Guan, D., J. Meng, D. M. Reiner, N. Zhang, Y. Shan, Z. Mi, S. Shao, Z. Liu, Q. Zhang, S. J. Davis (2018) 鈥溾. Nature Geoscience. 11, 551-555
Andrew Lockley and听D鈥橫aris Coffman (2018). 鈥溾澨Environmental Research听Letters.听13:5 (2018) 054034.听DOI:听10.1088/1748-9326/aabe96
D鈥橫aris Coffman and听Andrew Lockley (2017). 鈥.鈥澨Environmental Research Letters听12:1听(2017) 015003.听DOI:听10.1088/1748-9326/aa54e8.
Andrew Lockley, Zhifu Mi, and听D鈥橫aris Coffman. (2019). 鈥溾澨Frontiers of Engineering听Management听in Special Issue on听鈥楲ow Carbon Management.鈥櫶鼶OI: 10.15302/10.1007/s42524-019-0010-y
- Funding support
The virtual platform is supported by The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, 香港六合彩中特网.
We are open to collaborate and discuss the funding opportunities with all potential partners.听