The 6th Edition of Ethical Finance and Sustainability (EFS) Conference (EFS-2023), jointly organized by the EDC Paris Business School and CY Paris Cergy University, will take place on 01-02 June 2023 at the EDC Paris Business School, Paris, (France).

The achievement of the seventh sustainable development goal SDG#7 (i.e., affordable, and clean energy) aims at providing access to affordable and clean energy- promoting renewable energy production and use as an alternative to the extensive use of conventional pollutant energy resources. In the efforts to reduce risks and adverse impacts of climate change and to actively contribute to mitigating global warming under the Paris Climate Accord, policymakers are trying to diversify their mix of energy by fostering renewable energy development. In 2019, the SDGs report argued that more than 2.6 billion people representing one-third of the world’s population are using the dangerous and infectious cooking system. In addition, lack of electricity remains a major issue of SDGs because more than 700 million people lack access to electricity and most of them are living in sub-Saharan Africa. 

More specfically, several crises with varied origins, have been occured during the last two decades such as finance crisis (global financial crisis, European sovereign debt, etc.), political and geopolitical tensions, (Brexit, Russia-Ukrainian conflicts, Afghanistan conflicts, Myanmar, etc), climate / natural disasters (floods, ice storms, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc), and health care system related to COVID-19. Overall, these period of turmoil shared some common conditions in terms of excessive profits, savings, capital flows, outsourcing and sweated labour to environmental crimes and accounting scandals, climate destruction, corruption, challenging the business ethics. 

We invite authors to submit proposals covering these topical issues related to the Business ethics, CSR, Energy transition, Climate change, and green investments to submit their works. Authors will be expected to participate in the conference and papers will be eligible for publication, subject to editorial review. We cordially invite academics, practitioners, and policymakers who address these issues to submit papers. 

Prof. Dima Jamali

Dima Jamali is currently serving as Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Sharjah, UAE.She has an amazing career, having been in academia for over 20 years, primarily at the American University of Beirut (AUB), where she served as Tenured Professor and Associate Dean for the Olayan School of Business (OSB) and Director for Strategic Partnerships for the University. She made her way fast track through the ranks to Full Professor in 2010 and Endowed Chair in Responsible Leadership in 2014. Dr. Jamali was ranked among top 2% most influential global scholars in the field of sustainability by Stanford University for two years in a row (2020 and 2021) and ranked 30 among the top 100 scientists in the UAE in 2022.

Starting in 2015, she has founded and served as President and National Representative for the UN Global Compact Network Lebanon (GCNL), a network of businesses committed to advancing Sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Lebanon. She is also part of the Global Chapter Council for UNPRME (UN Principles of Responsible Management Education). She has a PhD in Social Policy and Administration, from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, a Masters in Sociology from San Jose State University, CA and a BA in Public Administration from AUB, Lebanon. Her research and teaching revolve primarily around Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Social Entrepreneurship (SE). She is the author/editor of seven books (CSR in the Middle East – Palgrave, 2012; Social Entrepreneurship in the Middle East – Palgrave, 2015; Development Oriented CSR – Greenleaf, 2015; Comparative Perspectives on Global Corporate Social Responsibility – IGI- 2016; Handbook of Responsible Management – Edward Elgar 2019; CSR in Developing and Emerging Economies: Institutions and Sustainable Development – Cambridge University Press 2019 and Corporate Governance in Arab Countries: Specifics and Outlooks, NTER Press 2019) and over 100 high level international publications, which are highly circulated and cited on an international scale, focusing on different aspects of sustainability in developing countries in general and the Middle East specifically.

Prof. Richard S.J. Tol

Richard S.J. Tol is a Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Sussex and the Professor of the Economics of Climate Change, Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is the Editor in Chief of Energy Economics. He is a member of the Academia Europaea. Previously, he was a Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, the Michael Otto Professor of Sustainability and Global Change at Hamburg University and an Adjunct Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. He has had visiting appointments at the Canadian Centre for Climate Research, University of Victoria, British Colombia, at the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, University College London, and at the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Department of Economics, Princeton University. Richard received an M.Sc. in econometrics (1992) and a Ph.D. in economics (1997) from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is ranked among the top 150 economists in the world, and has over 200 publications in learned journals (with 100+ co-authors), one book, three edited volumes, and many minor publications. He specialises in the economics of energy, environment, and climate, and is interested in tourism and scientometrics.

• Journal of Environmental Management (ABS 3*)

VSI:Ecological Challenges and Environmental Management in the Era of Global Conflict

Guest editors: 

Prof. Muhammad Ali Nasir & Dr. Yong Wang.

• Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility

VSI: Business Ethics & CSR: Perspectives in a Time of Crisis

Guest Editors:

 Douglas CUMMING & Zied FTITI 

• Annals of Operations Research 

VSI: Energy Transitions, Green finance, climate change : Machine Learning, Big data and Technology applications 

Guest Editors : Zied FTITI, Hachmi BEN AMEUR, Massimiliano CAPORIN, Roberto CASARIN, Bertrand MAILLET

• Journal of Alternative Investments (ABS 2*)

VSI: Green Finance, sustainable investments, and business ethics in the era of post-COVID-19 and Russian-Ukrainian conflict

Guest Editor: Younes Ben Zaied (EDC Paris Business School)

• Economic Analysis and Policy (ABS 1*)

VSI: Public policy for the achievement of sustainable development goals

Guest editors: 

Younes Ben Zaied (EDC Paris Business School) & Shunsuke Managi (Kyushu University, Japan)