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India international climate and energy transition finance forum: navigating the path to a sustainable future

17 January 2025Donald Innocent-Ike MBA2025Climate initiative, Past EventsCollaborations

The Wheeler Institute hosted the India International Climate and Energy Transition Finance Forum where experts came together to discuss critical issues surrounding climate finance and energy transition. Moderated by Dr. Narayan Naik, Professor of Finance at London Business School, the panel featured distinguished speakers such as Upendra Kumar Sinha (Former Chairperson of the Securities and…

India International Climate and Energy Transition Finance Forum

6 September 2024Wheeler InstituteClimate initiative, Past EventsEvents

The Wheeler Institute was delighted to welcome The Climate and Energy Transition Finance Initiative (CETFI), in partnership with London Stock Exchange to the London Business School on Wednesday 25th September, to discuss new approaches to climate finance and leadership from the Global South, starting with India. The latest event in the Wheeler Institute Climate Initiative included public release…

New Research on Taxes and Transparency Regulation for Sustainability

17 July 2024Wheeler InstituteClimate initiative, Collaborations, Research Portal, Research we support, Wheeler InstituteResearch

The final session of the Tax Bootcamp 2024 at London Business School was focussed on two research papers, centred around tax and ESG in different geographical regions including developing countries. Each was presented by one of the researchers, discussed by an independent academic, and assessed for policy implications by a third party. This article is…

Taxes for Climate Action Across the World

17 July 2024Wheeler InstituteClimate initiative, Collaborations, Events, Research Portal, Research we support, Wheeler InstituteClimate Change, Collaborations, Events, Research

The second session of the Tax Bootcamp 2024, held at London Business School and supported by the Wheeler Institute, moved the conversation away from AI towards taxation and climate action. It was structured around presentations from two speakers, each representing diverse perspectives on climate action from both Europe and the United States on taxation for…

Sustainable Business: New Climate Standards for Africa

31 October 2023Wheeler InstituteClimate initiative, Collaborations, Past Events, Wheeler InstituteClimate Initiative, Events, High level events, Registration

In November 2023, the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development in conjunction with the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation (IFRS) hosted a four-part virtual lecture series that delved into the importance of new climate standards for business, with a particular focus on the African continent. In 2021 during COP26 in Glasgow, the Trustees of the IFRS…

In Conversation with Christos Stylianides: Understanding the global consequences of climate change

20 April 2023Ian Townsend, MBA20242 CommentsClimate initiative, Past EventsEvents, High level events

The Wheeler Institute for Business and Development were honoured to welcome Christos Stylianides, Minister for Climate Crisis and Civil Protection of Greece, for a discussion with Ioannis Ioannou, Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at LBS about the initiatives that are being undertaken for the prevention, preparedness and resilience of natural disaster management whilst offering…

The Role of DFIs In Facilitating A Private Sector Green Recovery

28 February 2022Hadi Hussaini, MBA 2023Climate initiative, CollaborationsPSD research network

In a thought-provoking discussion organized for the 3’rd Annual PSDRN Conference and facilitated by Nancy Lee, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development, panellists discuss their respective organizations’ efforts and ideas for tackling common issues faced by development finance institutions (DFI) as they attempt to sustainably deploy capital to enact the green recovery.…

Wheeler Institute Climate Initiative

24 February 2022Amelia Whitelaw, Executive DirectorClimate initiative, Wheeler InstituteClimate Initiative

Business can make a difference Climate change is upon us. How can we adapt to it? What can we do? We in the Wheeler Institute believe in the power of business to help society ameliorate and adapt to climate change. In our mission, we seek to understand, illuminate, and support the business community – individuals…

Where Did All The Water Go?

20 February 2022Hadi Hussaini, MBA 2023Climate initiative, Student voice

If you live in a developed country, you have the luxury of turning on a faucet and witnessing a gush of drinkable chemically treated water emerge. Anytime there is a drought in an area, such as in my home state of California, the government usually handles it by rapidly importing or sourcing water from various…

On Climate Adaptation post COP26, From Debate & Discussion to Execution & Implementation

9 February 2022Nandini Mazumdar, MBA 2022Climate initiative, Collaborations, Student voicePSD research network

Following the 2021 COP26 summit (formally known as the United Nations Climate Change Conference) in Glasgow, there are a few pressing questions around challenges and knowledge gaps that may impact implementation of the agreed-upon measures – how do we encourage private investment by better aligning efforts of public institutions with needs of the private sector?…