The Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI) was founded in 2017 to promote multi-disciplinary academic research on Sustainable Finance and Investment. This Alliance comprises several global research universities, each with expertise in this field.

The Alliance aims to:

• organise the major international annual academic conference on Sustainable Finance and Investment;
• develop academic collaboration between researchers working in this field; and
• nurture the growth and development of graduate students and emerging scholars working on Sustainable Finance and Investment.

Our 8th Annual Conference for Sustainable Finance and Investment will be taking place in Paris in 2025. We are looking for high-quality papers on Sustainable Finance and Investment. Each selected paper will be given a 30-minute presentation slot (20 to present and 10 for questions). Prizes will be awarded to the best papers presented.The deadline for submission is 14 February 2025.

Submission Guidelines

The conference is open to methodologically rigorous and robust submissions in all areas of sustainable finance and investment. All papers must be original and unpublished. We are looking for papers that speak to the activities of Investment Management, Finance, Banking, or Insurance as they intersect with the following topic areas:

• Monetary Policy and Sustainability
• Climate policy
• Nature Finance/Capital
• Biodiversity Finance/Capital
• Climate Transition/Change
• Net-zero transition
• Carbon Markets and Decarbonisation
• Sustainable Finance/Investment
• Blended Finance
• Sustainability-Linked Financial Products and Innovations
• Sustainability Stewardship
• Employee and Stakeholder participation
• Equity, Inequality and Justice
• Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility
• Sustainability Risk and Insurance
• Catastrophe/Resilience/Disaster Risk Financing 
• Sustainability Indicators, Measurement and Reporting
• Taxonomy Application/Interpretation
• Data sets, metrics, and data processing methodology
• Sustainability/ESG Regulation, Disclosure & Reporting
• Divestment

Venue

The conference will be held in Paris on the Paris Dauphine University campus 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to heidi.raubenheimer@sustainablefinancealliance.org