Climate change is a global threat that requires the cooperation of all stakeholders, including governments, corporations, and civil society, to mitigate its harmful impacts and ensure a just climate transition to a low-carbon, more resource-efficient, and sustainable economy. Under the Paris Agreement and the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), countries are expected to mobilize all possible efforts and resources (human, financial, and capital) to achieve targeted climate and energy goals.

Jointly co-organized by AVSE Global, the University of Danang – University of Economics, and Massey University, the 2024 Vietnam Symposium in Climate Transition (VSCT-2024, IN-PERSON and ONLINE) aims to provide a leading forum for academics, practitioners, and policymakers to present their research findings and discuss current and challenging issues in climate transition, environment, and energy change mitigation and adaptation. The Symposium is also ideal for Vietnamese scholars to exchange research experiences and develop research projects with their international colleagues.

Professor Sumit Agarwal

Professor of Finance at the Business School and a Professor of Economics and Real Estate at the National University of Singapore, Singapore

Sumit Agarwal is Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Business School and a Professor of Economics and Real Estate at the National University of Singapore. He is the Managing Director of Sustainable and Green Finance Institute at NUS. He is also the President of Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research .

In the past, he has held positions as a Professor of Finance at the Business School, Georgetown University. Before that he was a senior financial economist in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and prior to joining the Chicago Fed, he was a senior vice president and credit risk management executive in the Small Business Risk Solutions Group of Bank of America.

Sumit’s research interests include issues relating to household sustainablity, financial institutions, household finance, behavioral finance, and real estate markets. He has published over one hundred and twenty five research articles in economics and finance journals among others. Additionally, he has co-written six books titled Why We Feel Blue When the Air is Grey , Kiasunomics 3, Introduction to Household Financial Management , Kiasunomics 2, Household Finance: A Functional Approach , and Kiasunomics , and also co-edited two collected volumes titled Impact of COVID-19 on Asian Economies and Policy Responses, and Household Credit Usage: Personal Debt and Mortgages. He writes regular op-ed’s in the Straits Times and is featured on various media outlets like the CNA, BBC, CNBC, and Fox on issues relating to finance, banking, and real estate markets. Sumit’s research is widely cited in leading newspapers and magazines like the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, and the U.S Presidents Report to Congress. He also runs a Podcast on household financial decision making called Kiasunomics.

Professor Ian Bateman OBE

Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Exeter Business School, United Kingdom & Co-Editor-in-Chief of Environmental & Resource Economics 

Ian is an environmental economist with a wide array of research interests. These revolve around the issue of ensuring sustainable wellbeing through the integration of natural and social science knowledge within decision making and policy. Particular interests lie in the fields of quantitative analysis, integrated modelling, the valuation of non-market benefits and costs and working with decision and policy makers in the public and private sector.

Ian is Co-Director (with Professor Brett Day) of the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP), a multidisciplinary team bringing together the variety of disciplines and perspectives necessary to improve policy, business and social decision making regarding the connections between the economy and the environment. LEEP is based in the Department of Economics at the University of Exeter Business School. Ian is also the Director of the NetZeroPlus project.

Ian is a member of the First Minister's Environmental Council advising the Scottish Government.

The scientific and organizing committee welcome submissions in all areas which represent crossroads of energy, environmental, and climate finance. The topics of the conference include, but not limited to:

• Behavioral finance/economics and its implications to climate transition
• Blue economy
• Carbon market
• Circular economy
• Climate change: mitigation and adaptation
• Climate change: policy and regulations
• Climate finance
• Climate risks: assessment and management
• Climate transition and COVID-19 recovery
• Climate transition and portfolio management
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
• Energy and environmental issues
• Energy markets and energy transition
• Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
• Financial markets and climate transition
• Geopolitical risk and climate change mitigation
• Just climate transition
• Low carbon technologies and innovation
• Management of extractive industries
• Responsible behaviors and sustainability in family business
• Responsible business conduct and SDG goals
• Role of management, business strategies, and SDG goals
• Sustainable business model innovation
• Sustainable entrepreneurship
• Sustainable infrastructure investment
• Sustainable production and consumption
• Sustainable key performance indicators

A paper refers to a fully developed manuscript on a scholarly topic. We do not impose any style requirements. If needed, one can refer, for example, to Author Guidelines.

In consultation with the Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Climate Finance and Journal of Environment Management, authors of best conference papers will be invited to submit their papers to a regular issue of the Journal.

Submission deadline

31 October 2024

Notification of review results
As soon as decision is made

Registration deadline
10 November 2024

Conference event
12-13 December 2024

Ted Loch-Temzelides, Rice University, USA

Lutz Kilian, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, USA

Hung Do, Massey University, New Zealand & AVSE Global

Duc Khuong Nguyen, EMLV Business School, France & AVSE Global

Arman Eshraghi, Cardiff University, UK  

Muhammad Ali Nasir, University of Leeds, UK

Linh Pham, Lake Forest College, USA

Special issue of Energy Economics, titled “Impacts of Geopolitical Conflicts on Regional Energy Security and Consequences for the Global Economy” under the Guest-editorship of Assoc. Prof. Hung Do, Prof. Duc Khuong Nguyen, and Prof. Russell Smyth. Submission deadline: 31st December 2024.

Special issue of Journal of Forecasting, titled “Forecasting carbon prices in an integrated market network” under the Guest-editorship of Assoc. Prof. Hung Do, Dr. Linh H. Nguyen, and Dr. Thomas Walther. Submission deadline: 28th February 2025.