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Overview

Setting this open platform for promoting collaboration in climate investment and finance aims to enable high quality research and debates, while helping society to achieve ecological civilisation development goals.听

CIFE is dedicated to improving the efficiency and the transparency of climate finance and establishing the capacity for climate change related to infrastructure management and investment.

Aims

CIFP will deliver the following activities at the early stage:听

• Launch executive education courses related to infrastructure management and climate finance (IMCF), with a focus on China
• Promote high quality researches in addressing contemporary issues in climate investment and finance
• Critically review the effectiveness of current green finance and climate investment and finance standards, and provide independent research for investors and policymakers听
• In collaboration with China Emission Accounts and Datasets (CEADs) programme to support national, sub-national and city level carbon accounting and auditing
• Develop novel business models and professional techno-economic analysis听for emerging low carbon technologies (such as CCS, green hydrogen and green building) to support the transition to net zero carbon goal听
• Be fully open to other academic, research institutes and industry partners to join the platform and share knowledge听

Partner Institutes

• The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, University College London (Professor D鈥橫aris Coffman and Professor Dabo Guan).听
• School of Environment and Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University ( and Professor Dabo Guan)听
• Department of Civil Engineering, Hong Kong University ()听
• University of Edinburgh Business School (, , )听
• Climate Investment and Finance Association (CIFA), Chinese Society for Environment Science听

Publications

Guo, J., F. Gu, Y. Liu, X. Liang, J. Mo and Y. Fan (2020). "" Nature Communications 11(1): 2078.

Wang, C., D. Guan and W. Cai (2019). "" One Earth 1(1): 24-26.听

Figueres, C., C. Le Qu茅r茅, A. Mahindra, O. B盲te, G. Whiteman, G. Peters, D. Guan (2018) 鈥溾��. Nature, 564, 27-30

Mi., Z., J. Meng, F. Green, D. Coffman, D. Guan (2018) 鈥�. Geophysical Research Letters 45(9), 4309-4318

Guan, D., J. Meng, D. M. Reiner, N. Zhang, Y. Shan, Z. Mi, S. Shao, Z. Liu, Q. Zhang, S. J. Davis (2018) 鈥溾��. Nature Geoscience. 11, 551-555

Andrew Lockley and听D鈥橫aris Coffman (2018). 鈥溾�澨�Environmental Research听Letters.听13:5 (2018) 054034.听DOI:听10.1088/1748-9326/aabe96

D鈥橫aris Coffman and听Andrew Lockley (2017). 鈥�.鈥澨�Environmental Research Letters听12:1听(2017) 015003.听DOI:听10.1088/1748-9326/aa54e8.

Andrew Lockley, Zhifu Mi, and听D鈥橫aris Coffman. (2019). 鈥溾�澨�Frontiers of Engineering听Management听in Special Issue on听鈥楲ow Carbon Management.鈥櫶鼶OI: 10.15302/10.1007/s42524-019-0010-y

Funding support

The virtual platform is supported by The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, UCL.

We are open to collaborate and discuss the funding opportunities with all potential partners.听