“Climate, Nature, and Resilience: Building the Sustainable Economy”
18 - 19 March 2027, Singapore
The Sustainable and Green Finance Institute (SGFIN) is a research institute at the National University of Singapore (NUS). With the support of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), SGFIN aims to develop deep research capabilities in sustainable and green finance with the focal point on Asia.
SGFIN will be hosting its annual research conference on sustainability on 18-19 March 2027 and invites paper submissions from researchers across ALL disciplines whose work relates to sustainability and climate change.
CONFERENCE THEMES:
This year’s conference will build around the grand theme of “Climate, Nature, and Resilience: Building the Sustainable Economy.” The following list of potential themes for submission is not exhaustive, and submissions on sustainability topics not listed below are also welcome:
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- Climate and Nature Finance – Measuring, valuing, pricing, and managing climate- and nature-related risks, including physical climate risk, natural capital, biodiversity, and ecosystem services.
- Economic and Financial Resilience – Understanding how environmental shocks and natural capital degradation affect firms, portfolios, markets, financial institutions, and financial stability.
- Transition, Adaptation, and Sustainable Growth – Financing decarbonization, adaptation, resilience, nature conservation, and economic transformation consistent with sustainable growth.
- Innovation for Sustainability and Resilience – New financial instruments, technologies, data, models, and analytical frameworks for measuring, managing, and financing sustainability risks.
- Policy, Regulation, and Global Coordination – The role of policy, regulation, standards, market frameworks, and international initiatives in advancing climate, nature, and resilience goals.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: 20 November 2026
CONTACT
For further information, please email sgfinconf@nus.edu.sg
PROGRAM ORGANISERS
Johan Sulaeman, SGFIN
Alminas Zaldokas, SGFIN
Zhang Weina, SGFIN
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Filip Biljecki, NUS (Architecture)
Roman Carrasco, NUS (Biology)
Emirhan Ilhan, NUS (Finance)
Gianmarco Mengaldo, NUS (Engineering)
Qin Yu, NUS (Real Estate)
Umakanth Varottil, NUS (Law)
Dariusz Wojcik, NUS (Geography)
Lin Yupeng, NUS (Accounting)
Pang Sze Dai, NUS (Engineering)
Simone Fatichi, NUS (Engineering)
He Xiaogang, NUS (Engineering)
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Darwin Choi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Griffin Wenxi Jiang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hao Liang, Nanyang Technological University
Lilian Ng, York University
Christoph Schiller, Ohio State University
Paul Smeets, University of Amsterdam
Laura Starks, University of Texas at Austin
Dragon Tang, University of Hong Kong
Sheridan Titman, University of Texas at Austin
Guojun He, University of Hong Kong
Po-Hsuan Hsu, National Tsing Hua University
Zacharias Sautner, University of Zurich
Qifei Zhu, Texas A&M University
CONFERENCE MANAGERS
She Liuyang, SGFIN
Chan Shermine, SGFIN
