News and Events

The Role of Sustainability in Central Bnaking, Climate Week Zurich 2026

Wed, 13 May 2026 13:00:46 GMT

Questionable Framings: A Panel Discussion on the "Sustainability Initiative"

Wed, 13 May 2026 08:37:58 GMT

New EIZ Course "Sustainability: Navigating the Regulatory Landscape"

Tue, 12 May 2026 10:50:09 GMT

Events Not To Miss During Climate Week Zurich 2026

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:02:02 GMT

Book Launch: "Central Banking and Sustainability" (CUP 2026)

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:56:24 GMT

Press conference for the new climate report for Switzerland

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:47:21 GMT

New Full Members and Senior Fellows elected at the Competence Center of Sustainability, 23 March 2026

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:34:14 GMT

Conference "Sustainable Finance and Climate Finance - From Roots to Innovation", 7 May 2026

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:39:11 GMT

Conference: The Role of Sustainability in Central Banking, 8 May 2026

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:06:04 GMT

Oxford Bank Governance Webinar, 17.3.2026

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:44:58 GMT

Lunchtime Seminar Series No. 3: Sustainability-Linked Insurance

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:40:12 GMT

Recruiting 2 Executive Directors (NCCR CLIM+)

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:39:49 GMT

The Sustainability Dispatch - 2026 / No. 1

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:31:46 GMT

Widener Commonwealth Law Review: Corporate Law and Sustainability

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:44:24 GMT

Testimony in the Parliament House of Lords: Growth and proposed regulation of stablecoins in the UK

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:47:17 GMT

Legal500 / Legal Business Magazine: At the intersection of theory and practice

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:00:15 GMT

Service on Interdisciplinary Jury Panel at International Medical Conference

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:04:35 GMT

ERC Funding gained for Climate Risk management project

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:41:00 GMT

Lunchtime Seminar Series No. 2: Climate-Proofing Sovereign Bonds

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:21:35 GMT

Lunchtime Seminar Series No. 1: Swiss Sustainable Finance Regulation – At a Crossroads?

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:31:48 GMT

Una Europa Virtual Exchanges for Sustainability (UnaVEx)

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:13:22 GMT

UZH/ETH Climate Network Meeting, 5 December 2025

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:18:16 GMT

"UZH Sustainable" Event, 25 February 2026

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:36:12 GMT

Law & Sustainability Lecture: 30 October 2025

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:53:29 GMT

Cross-border Crypto Conference: 5 November 2025

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:07:14 GMT

Conference and Research on "Transition Finance: Risks or Opportunities?"

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:44:39 GMT

New Book: "Central Banking and Sustainability", ed. Kern Alexander & Seraina Grünewald

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:12:33 GMT

2026 Call for research proposals in "Sustainability and the Law"

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:34:50 GMT

Book Launch “The New Nature of Business” by André Hoffmann

Wed, 28 May 2025 13:05:12 GMT

Prof. Laura T. Starks Public Lecture on 15 May 2025 at the University of Zurich: "Public Sentiment Decomposition and Shareholder Actions"

Tue, 13 May 2025 09:00:36 GMT

New Article by Debjani Bhattacharyya in Le Monde Diplomatique

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:57:52 GMT

The Cambridge Handbook of EU Sustainable Finance

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:39:38 GMT

CCSF Newsletter: Welcoming new Members

Claudine Brändle — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 23:00:00 GMT

We have recently welcomed new researchers as members of the CCSF. Please read a welcome note and a list of current projects

Read the CCSF Newsletter (15.03.2023)

CCSF member Christian Huggel organized the annual meeting of the UZH-ETH Network on Interdisciplinary Climate Research

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 23:00:00 GMT

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”

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 23:00:00 GMT

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)

Mon, 05 Sep 2022 22:00:00 GMT

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

Claudine Brändle — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Read the CCSF Newsletter (14.03.2023)

Panel discussion on sustainable investment

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 23:00:00 GMT

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).

Program and event details

Annual meeting of the UZH-ETH Network on Interdisciplinary Climate Research

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 23:00:00 GMT

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:

Program and Zoom link (PDF, 548 KB)

«Enorme Anstrengungen nötig»

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 23:00:00 GMT

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

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 22:00:00 GMT

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"

The full program can be found here.

CCSF Newsletter: Equipping Financial Actors with Tools & Knowledge Enabling Sustainable Decisions

Anna Tervahartiala — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 22:00:00 GMT

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.

Read the CCSF Newsletter (7.7.2021)

CCSF Newsletter: Sustainability in Finance as a Guiding Light for a Successful Recovery

Anna Tervahartiala — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Read the CCSF Newsletter (15.01.2021)

CCSF Newsletter: The Biggest University Center for Sustainable Finance has been Launched

Anna Tervahartiala — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 22:00:00 GMT

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.

Read the CCSF Newsletter (11.09.2020)

Sustainability is Price Stability — Covid-19 Crisis Pushes the ECB to Re-evaluate Inflation Policy

Anna Tervahartiala — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 22:00:00 GMT

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

Anna Tervahartiala — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:00:00 GMT

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

Anna Tervahartiala — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 23:00:00 GMT

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