On November 9, the 3rd International Symposium on Financial Innovation and Development under the Dual Carbon Goals, hosted by Anhui University of Finance and Economics (AUFE) and Shanghai University of Electric Power (SUEP), and co-organized by the Low-carbon Development and Carbon Finance Laboratory, was held at the Hefei Center of AUFE. Song Malin, a member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of the university, and Zhang Chuan, the Chief Accountant of Shanghai University of Electric Power, attended and delivered speeches. Experts and scholars from many universities, including Renmin University of China, China Agricultural University, Beihang University, East China University of Political Science and Law, Huaqiao University, and Shanghai University of Electric Power, participated in the symposium. The meeting was chaired by Wan Guangcai, Dean of the School of Finance in AUFE.
In his speech, Song Malin pointed out that as the core of the modern economy, finance can effectively guide social capital to flow into the green and low-carbon fields through means such as the innovation of green financial products, the construction of the carbon financial market, and the wide application of low-carbon technologies. It provides strong financial support for projects such as energy conservation and emission reduction, clean energy, and ecological protection, accelerates the transformation of the economic society towards a low-carbon and carbon-neutral direction, and promotes sustainable development. He hoped that through this in-depth communication and intellectual collision, effective paths for financial innovation to support the realization of the Dual Carbon goals could be further explored, thus promoting the high-quality development of the international financial market and achieving the comprehensive green transformation of the economic society.
Zhang Chuan delivered a speech on behalf of Shanghai University of Electric Power. She pointed out that financial innovation, especially the development of green finance and carbon finance, can effectively promote energy conservation and emission reduction and the application of green and low-carbon technologies, and is a key factor in achieving the Dual Carbon goals and the high-quality development of the economy. She hoped that scholars from different countries, different fields, and different backgrounds could speak freely in this harmonious and pleasant academic atmosphere and come up with more innovative and constructive insights.
After the opening ceremony, Professor Brian Lucey from the Business School of Trinity College Dublin delivered a keynote speech entitled Biodiversity and Finance. In the session of parallel forums, experts and scholars from various universities shared their latest research achievements on the relevant topics of the conference with each other.
The convening of this conference has built an important platform for jointly studying how financial innovation promotes green transformation and achieves sustainable development, and has promoted academic exchanges and cooperation on relevant topics in the Dual Carbon field among multiple universities.
