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BI-NBER-NYU Conference on Climate and Nature Finance

The conference is jointly hosted with Centre for Corporate Governance Research (CCGR), NBER and NYU, and it is supported by Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM).

Programme - Friday 24 April 2026

Location: B2-060

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Programme

  • Time
  • Title
  • Registration and coffee

  • Session 1: Climate Risk, Hedging, and Asset Pricing

    Climate Risk Pricing
    Lasse H. Pedersen

    The Value of Compliance Offsets in Cap-and-Trade Markets
    Aymeric Bellon, Deeksha Gupta, Tarun Ramadorai, Federica Zeni 

  • Coffee Break

  • Session 2: Financial Frictions and the Green Investment Channel

    Lost in Transition: Financial Barriers to Green Growth
    Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, John Van Reenen, Maarten De Ridder 
      
    Financing Investment in Electricity
    Olivier Darmouni, Clemens Lehner, Parinitha R. Sastry

  • Lunch and Poster Session

  • Session 3: Firm Networks, Reallocation, and Environmental Shocks

    Two Centuries of U.S. Innovation: Firms' Internal Networks and Resilience to Disasters
    Mathias Kruttli, Noah Stoffman, Sumudu W. Watugala 
     
    Canaries in the Coal Mine: Firm Response to Biodiversity Transition Risk
    Jesus R. Pena Manrique, Shikhar Singla 

  • Coffee Break

  • Session 4: Environmental Policy Effectiveness and Real Resource Allocation

    Restoring Nature, Creating Wealth: Evidence from Rural Households in Africa
    Geoffrey Heal, Claudio Rizzi, Simon Xu

    Green Waste
    Ingvil Gaarder, Morten Grindaker, Tom G. Meling, Magne Mogstad

  • Poster Sessions

  • Poster session 1: Pricing and Transmission of Climate Risk in Corporate Loan

    Natalia Madrid, University of California, San Diego

  • Poster session 2: Carbon in the Cloud

    Tingyu Yu, University of Zurich

  • Poster session 3: Impact Investing and Private Equity: Cross-Country Determinants and Economic, Social, and Environmental Outcomes

    Mahdieh Vosough Gohari, BI Norwegian Business School

  • Poster session 4: The Effects of Green and Social Bond Issuance on Firms' ESG Performance

    Rodrigo Graça, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

  • Poster session 5: One Price Fits All? Cross-Subsidies in Uniformly Priced Natural Perils Insurance

    Caroline Espegren, Bank of Norway

  • Poster session 6: Biodiversity as an Asset: A Critical Analysis of Investor Narratives and Their Justice Implications

    Catalina A. Papari, Utrecht University

  • Poster session 7: Global Warming, Ecosystems and Inequality

    Ignacio Oliva, University of California, Davis

  • Poster session 8: Can Investor Coalitions Drive Corporate Climate Action?

    Nikolaus Hastreiter, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

  • Poster session 9: The Value of Nature-Based Adaptation. Evidence that Tree Cover Protects Urban Revenue from Heat

    Andie Creel, Yale University

  • Poster session 10: The Unintended Consequences of Carbon Markets

    Lior Shabtai, Northwestern University

  • Poster session 11: Incident-Driven ESG Engagement

    Yongheng Sun, Singapore Management University

  • Poster session 12: Taxonomy Talks, Credit Walks: The EU's Climate Disclosure Framework and Bank Lending

    Felicitas Koch, ifo Institute