News and Events
Join us for our upcoming events and read news about the research of the Competence Center of Sustainability. A second page for events at university-level UZH and ETH is in preparation.
News list
-
-
-
-
-
-
Testimony in the Parliament House of Lords: Growth and proposed regulation of stablecoins in the UK
-
-
-
-
-
Lunchtime Seminar Series No. 1: Swiss Sustainable Finance Regulation – At a Crossroads?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
New Book: "Central Banking and Sustainability", ed. Kern Alexander & Seraina Grünewald
-
-
-
Prof. Laura T. Starks Public Lecture on 15 May 2025 at the University of Zurich: "Public Sentiment Decomposition and Shareholder Actions"
-
-
-
CCSF Newsletter: Welcoming new Members
We have recently welcomed new researchers as members of the CCSF. Please read a welcome note and a list of current projects
-
CCSF member Christian Huggel organized the annual meeting of the UZH-ETH Network on Interdisciplinary Climate Research
The Annual meeting of the UZH-ETH Network on Interdisciplinary Climate Research was held on Wednesday, January 11, 2023. The meeting focused on two main topics: progress in climate science and policy and the climate crisis in teaching.
-
CCSF faculty contributes to new interdisciplinary Executive Education course on “Biodiversity and Finance”
The new course will go live in May 2023. CCSF members Maria Santos and PhD candidate Isabelle Zheng were instrumental in preparing this pioneer course jointly with UZH’s Finance Executive Education team and in building its interdisciplinary foundation.
-
CCSF co-hosted the 5th Annual GRASFI Conference with the UZH Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP)
The conference was held on September 14-15, 2022, in Zurich and organized by the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) and the Center of Competence in Sustainable Finance (CCSF) at the University of Zurich.
-
CCSF Newsletter: Interdisciplinary publications on Sustainable Finance
We have gathered these contributions for you in this spring newsletter. I welcome you to explore them in-depth and wish you all a good start in the new year.
-
Panel discussion on sustainable investment
On Tuesday, 8 March 06:30 pm, Prof. Dr. Marc Chesney will participate in a panel about sustainable investing with Anja Seiler (Ethos, Swiss Foundation for Sustainable Development) and Markus Ott (Alternative Bank Schweiz AG).
-
Annual meeting of the UZH-ETH Network on Interdisciplinary Climate Research
Join us for the annual meeting of the UZH-ETH Network on Interdisciplinary Climate Research on Tuesday, 25 January 2022, 9 am – 12 pm on zoom. Have a look at the program below:
-
«Enorme Anstrengungen nötig»
Two of our Center of Competence for Sustainable Finance researcher, Christian Huggel and Axel Michaelowa shared their experience of COP26 and the perspectives of research at the University of Zurich on UZH News.
-
Resilience for a post-pandemic economy – Lessons, challenges and opportunities
Prof. Marc Chesney will hold a talk at the Symposium 2021 "Resilience for a post-pandemic economy" in Fribourg and online via zoom. He will present at 10.35am "Déréglements climatiques et inégalités sociales: les leçons à tirer de la situation actuelle"
-
CCSF Newsletter: Equipping Financial Actors with Tools & Knowledge Enabling Sustainable Decisions
Fresh publications and research from researchers of the Center of Competence for Sustainable Finance dive into the historic Shell-case, measuring physical climate risk, and the stock price responses to recent US elections.
-
CCSF Newsletter: Sustainability in Finance as a Guiding Light for a Successful Recovery
The Center of Competence for Sustainable Finance (CCSF) reaches its 1-year milestone. Have a look at recent research, seminar recordings, and upcoming opportunities in the CCSF Newsletter.
-
CCSF Newsletter: The Biggest University Center for Sustainable Finance has been Launched
The Center of Competence for Sustainable Finance (CCSF) at the University of Zurich saw daylight in January 2020 and starts its first semester full steam ahead. Have a look at upcoming teaching and timely research in the first edition of the CCSF Newsletter.
-
Sustainability is Price Stability — Covid-19 Crisis Pushes the ECB to Re-evaluate Inflation Policy
The primary objective of the European Central Bank (ECB) is maintaining price stability. This means ensuring inflation stays below, but close to 2 percent. The ECB has struggled to reach the target for years and now the economic crisis created by Covid-19 has sounded the alarms of deflation. These developments have brought the secondary objectives of the ECB to the forefront; the objective of supporting the economic policies of the European Union, including employment, sustainable growth, and environmental protection. How to do this, is a question a recent report co-authored by Professor Kern Alexander seeks to answer.
Read more on CCSF's Medium post (11.6.2020)
-
Fuelling fossil fuel: Bond to bank substitution in the transition to a low-carbon economy
Fossil fuel investments over the past few years are at the centre of political debates about climate change policy. The article published on PRI's Blog explores the role market- and bank-based debt play in the climate transition process. It presents evidence that fossil fuel firms increasingly substitute bonds for syndicated bank loans, when banks price the risk of stranded assets less than the bond market.
Read the article published on PRI's Blog (24.4.2020)
-
UZH Sustainable Finance Conference 2020: Climate Change & Financial Risk
Climate-related financial risks pose new fundamental challenges for academics and practitioners in finance, such as endogeneity of risk, heavy-tailed distributions, and decisions under uncertainty - not to mention the economy as a whole. The 2020 FINEXUS conference presented state-of-the-art research, discussed current challenges and the successful applications of policy and practice. To learn more about the event, have a look here