35th International Geographical Congress, Dublin, Ireland (24th – 30th August 2024)

https://igc2024dublin.org/

C.09: Dynamics of Economic Spaces:

Financial innovations for transformative climate and economic justice

Session organisers:

• Martin Sokol (Associate Professor of Geography, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) – sokolm@tcd.ie
• Jennie Stephens*, Professor of Climate Justice, Maynooth University – Jennie.Stephens@mu.ie  (*Session Chair)

Session description:

Financial systems have potential to be both drivers of and barriers to the transformative changes that are urgently needed to advance climate justice and promote economic justice. Fossil fuel phaseout and transformation toward a more stable, equal, healthier society based on a more caring solidarity economy requires financial innovation. Recognition of the central role that financial innovations, financial flows, and financial processes have on transformative social change is rapidly growing, and collective calls for fundamental transformation of financial systems are becoming more frequent.

This explores different kinds of financial innovations that would advance climate justice and economic justice.

Session Programme: Tuesday 27th August 2024

Time	Presenter	Title
08:30-10:00	Panel: #375:  Fin Geo – Finance & Space Event:  Quo Vadis Financial Geography?
10:30-10:45	A. Karim Ahmed, & Audrey R. Chapman	Establishing a Citizens’ Climate Action Reparation Fund
10:45-11:00	Regina Tunes	Financial innovations in the Global South: an analysis of the solidarity finance paradigm based on the Rio Network of Community Banks, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
11:00-11:15	Jennie Stephens & Martin Sokol	Financial Innovation and Climate Obstruction in Finance and Banking
11:15- 11:30	Leonardo Pataccini	Central Bank Digital Currencies: opportunities, risks and challenges for climate justice.
11:30- 11:45	Andrew Hook	The monetary ecologies of Central Bank Digital Currencies: examining reintermediation, disruption, and financial inclusion in the Bahamas’s Sand Dollar and the East Caribbean’s D-Cash
12:00- 14:00	Lunch/Plenary / Keynote / Poster sessions / Commission Business Meetings
14:00-14:15	Zhen Zeng & Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes	Golden roots, green futures: exploring socio-ecological dynamics in global afforestation financing.
14:15-14:30	Laqiqige Zhu & Martha O’Hagan	Enhancing Afforestation in Ireland: Insights from a Best-Worst Choice Survey Among Farmers.
14:30-14:45	Ian M. Robertson	The geography of pension fund proxy voting on ESG Issues .
14:45-15:00	Fernando Castro	Weather derivatives as a new kind of crop insurance.
15:00-15:15	Romain David	Supporting sustainable transition of financial sector through information-based governance initiative involving niche actors.
15:15- 15:30	Discussion and closing

We look forward to seeing you all in Dublin !