Dear reader,

time flies, here is the first SFL Newsletter of the year. The ambition is to give some insights into what we do and highlight upcoming SFL events. We hope to see you at our Partner Day on 17 May.

Best regards,

The SFL team

SFL Partner Day 17 May 2024

Time: 09:00 – 13:30

Venue: Stockholm School of Economics, Sveavägen 65, Stockholm or via Zoom

The program will cover

• SFL project presentations 
• Keynote speakers Caroline Flammer at Columbia University and Robert Eccles at Saïd Business School, Oxford University.
• Discussions moderated by Beatrice Crona at SFL.
• Lunch 

This event is open to our partners and potential partners, and registration is required. Since the seats are limited, we reserve the right to reroute participants to Zoom, should there be a situation where many participants join the SFL Partner Day from the same organization. 

Register to SFL:s Partner Day > 

Welcome!

New paper: Does financial inclusion improve energy accessibility in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Energy poverty – the lack of access to modern energy, such as electricity – is one of the major challenges in the climate crisis. In an effort to study the link between financial inclusion and energy accessibility in Sub-Saharan Africa, SFL-researcher Ranjula Bali Swain and Ashim Kumar Kar find that financial inclusion significantly reduces energy poverty. The findings have substantial policy implications, pointing out the need for appropriate policies to promote financial inclusion. The researchers write that developing financial infrastructures to reduce the average distance to banks or creating an appropriate financial system with improved outreach is critical.

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Joakim Fichtel at the Division of Real Estate and Financial Systems at KTH and discussant Christina Theodoraki, Associate professor TBS Education, France.

He studies network activity among entrepreneurial Life Science firms

SFL-affiliated and doctoral student Joakim Fichtel recently finished his licentiate seminar, the halfway milestone to the PhD degree. In a proprietary database, he has collected data from 364 Swedish drug development firms, financiers, and support and research organizations, making it possible to study how inter-organizational networks have evolved over time.

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Photo credit: iStock/Tanaonte

After new ban on greenwashing - what companies must do now

The EU Parliament is now ending companies' ability to use climate compensation for claims such as "climate-positive" or "climate-neutral" in their marketing. "It's good that the EU is trying to combat greenwashing," says Malin Pehrs, a doctoral student at KTH affiliated with the Sustainable Finance Lab. She emphasizes the importance of companies continuing to invest in climate projects and offers tips on how to do so.

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