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Lukas Bogner
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PhD fellow at Roskilde University, Denmark
studying politics, expertise & law in climate finance.
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I'm very happy that my dissertation about legal expertise in climate finance was accepted for defense, which will be on November 24th, 14:00 CET. For those interested in listening in online, there's more info here: ruc.dk/en/events/lu... :)
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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March 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Some more examples from a paper I wrote last year here:
An offshore finance news outlet describes the ‘tough competition between IFCs [International Financial Centres] globally (big and small) to win the rights to domicile newly established ESG-based funds and similar vehicles’ (IFC Review, 2022). In practice, this competition means that jurisdictions compete on legal affordances that can be drawn on (race to the bottom) rather than on the legal provisions (race to the top) that would regulate green finance flows. For example, a report published by the Hong Kong Green Finance Association develops a series of recommendations to develop Hong Kong as a ‘leading investment fund hub for green and sustainable infrastructure financing’. The report includes various concrete recommendations as to how Hong Kong can expand its definition of tax-exempt infrastructure and live up to investor expectations towards ‘tax neutrality’ and emphasizes the common law and favourable dispute resolution capacity in the SAR. It summarizes that ‘Hong Kong is already a popular hub for fund managers to manage both onshore and offshore funds. It can also become an important hub for public and private infrastructure funds which can effectively channel local and international investors’ monies to target [green and sustainable infrastructure] assets’ (2022:4). Its recommen- dations on enforcement of green requirements for funds registered in Hong Kong contain mainly voluntary/private-led measures while concrete regulatory suggestions are effectively absent. The report directly compares its location advantages with other intermediary jurisdictions such as the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg and Singapore. This is followed by another example from India
February 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Although I've read about the offset-related land rush before, the scale is absolutely mind boggling to me.
(from the new polycrisis newsletter, as always a great read!)
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pol...
Gulf kingdoms are trying to diversify their economies by deploying footloose petrodollars to acquire new industries. They are also increasingly focused on development finance, especially carbon offset deals covering vast tracts of land in African countries—a fifth of Zimbabwe, 10 percent of Liberia, 10 percent of Zambia, and 8 percent of Tanzania—while rapidly expanding their domestic renewable power capacity to save their remaining hydrocarbon deposits for much-needed export dollars.
January 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Now out with New Political Economy: What's going on in the legal back-end of 'innovative' climate finance constructs? I provide some additional clues to why it's so hard to de-risk private climate finance by public means. Open access, too! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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My first single-authored paper is out in Competition & Change as part of a special issue on the IPE of Green Finance by @mbabic.bsky.social and Sarah Sharma!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
March 27, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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How long before a heist/scam steals the carbon credits somebody held in their crypto wallet as a speculative asset?
March 26, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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Publicly mobilized private climate finance stagnant since 2017 according to yesterday's OECD climate finance report. Pretty wild it's not even making meager progress given the amount innovative private finance is talked about at MDBs, COPs, etc.
November 17, 2023 at 9:07 AM