On 23 January 2026, guest editors of the new open-access journal Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance hosted a one-day workshop, in Groningen (the Netherlands) and online, on the theme of Making Climate Finance Work – Insights from Ethics, Economics and Law in preparation for a special issue.
All prospective authors contributing to the second issue of the Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance participated in the workshop focusing on climate finance. The workshop featured presentations and structured discussions of individual papers, providing an opportunity for feedback and the exchange of ideas.
The workshop was very successful in encouraging interdisciplinarity and cross-fertilisation across contributions to the special issue. It also offered a unique forum for academic and practitioner authors to meet and engage, helping to strengthen the overall coherence and impact of the issue. Discussions may, for example, lead to shared insights or cross-referencing between papers.
Themes of papers:
1. There is enough finance for the transition and for preserving nature on which economies depend, but is it in the right place?
2. Financing the preservation of nature
3. Finance for the Global South
4. Between public and private balance sheets: which finance institutions will help us reach the Paris Goals?
5. Long termism in a global financial world infected with short termism
Organisers
This event was organised by the three guest editors of the finance issue of Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance: Roland A.J. Mees (ethics), Dirk J. Bezemer (economics), and Cynthia A. Williams (law), and hosted by the University of Groningen.
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