The Oxford Sustainable Finance Summit 2022 will bring together leading researchers from across Oxford with practitioners, policymakers, regulators, and civil society organisations to examine and reflect on the latest developments and trends in sustainable finance and investment. We will also showcase and critically evaluate emerging best practice across finance sub-sectors, asset classes, and sustainability themes.

The session on “Spatialising transitions to sustainable finance”

Finance has a very specific and concentrated geography, dominated by a limited number of financial centres in developed countries. While we would not expect financial centres to be the only centres of sustainable finance, there is little to no attention to the question of where the transition to sustainable finance is taking place. In this session, we will treat financial centres as nodes in a larger system, and we will discuss their role from a multi-scalar perspective. How do nodes outside of financial centres form in emerging and developing countries? How do spatial factors affect financial production, intermediation (including trading) and consumption in a global network? A better understanding of place-specific impacts on sustainability transitions is necessary and even urgent to explain the geographical unevenness of transition.\

Chair:  Professor Dariusz Wójcik, Professor of Economic Geography, Fellow of St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford

Dr Theodor Cojoianu, Associate Professor in Sustainable Finance, Edinburgh University

Dr Janelle Knox-Hayes, Associate Professor of Economic Geography and Planning Head, Environmental Policy and Planning Group, MIT

Linda Zeilina, Chief Executive Officer, International Sustainable Finance Centre

AGENDA and REGISTRATION: https://osfs2022.net/schedule/