Conference Agenda

Session

WED2-04: ESG, Climate Risk, Carbon Inequality and Green Lending

Time:

Wednesday, 15/July/2026:

3:00pm - 5:00pm

Session Chair: Pedro Júdice, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal

Presentations

The Moderating Role of Financial Risk: The Impact of Female Representation on the Board on ESG Disclosure

Yihui Lu, Wei Kang, Ying Wang

Anglia Ruskin University / Bank of China, United Kingdom

Carbon Inequality: Price Discovery and Market Dynamics in the Voluntary Carbon Market

Ying Liu

World Federation of Exchanges, United Kingdom

Green Lending, Female Directors, and Bank Risk- Evidence from Chinese Commercial Banks

Yuqi Kang, Meilan Yan, Ahmad Hassan Ahmad

Loughborough University, United Kingdom

Biodiversity Risk in Commodity Futures Markets

Ana-Maria Fuertes, Kate Phylaktis, Zheng Zhang

City St George’s, University of London, United Kingdom

Balance Sheet Optimization with Climate Risk

Hala Alkhalid¹, Pedro Júdice², Mehdi Vazifedan³, Qiji Zhu¹

¹Western Michigan University; ²ISCTE-IUL; ³University of Massachussets