Research Student
Working toward a PhD in Law, expected 2022
Grégoire Lunven is a PhD candidate at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prior to starting his thesis, Lunven worked as a law teaching assistant at the University of Versailles. He also interned at the Malagasy Ministry of Environment and in a French law firm specializing in renewable energy. He graduated from la Sorbonne in environmental law and from Sciences Po Paris in public affairs.
Green Bonds: Can Debt Securities Help Implement International Law on Climate Change?, co-supervised by Professors Benoit MAYER and Chao XI.
Mr. Lunven is interested in the relation between financial regulation and environmental law. With his thesis, he aims at answering the main legal questions arising from attributing climate goals to financial instruments. Key to this inquiry are “sustainable finance taxonomies”. In the context of sustainable finance, taxonomies are regulatory tools that classify economic activities according to their environmental impacts. Mr. Lunven studies how these taxonomies translate climate law into financial regulation.
- Integrating Environmental Planning into EU and China’s Securities Laws Using “Green Finance Taxonomies”, Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting, 5th January 2021.
- Implementing Environmental Treaties through Green Finance Taxonomies, Cambridge International Law Conference, Cambridge University, UK, 2nd May 2020.
- Multilateral Environmental Agreements in Green Finance Taxonomies, UCL-KCL Environmental Law Symposium 2020, University College of London, London, UK, 24th February 2020.
- Capital, Environment and the Belt and Road Initiative: An Appraisal of the BRI-related Green Bonds, Macao Workshop for Young Environmental Law Scholars, 23-24thSeptember 2019.
Journal Papers
- A Multidisciplinary Literature Review of the Academic Research on the Green Bond Market, Journal of Environmental Investing, (forthcoming 2020) (with Aneil Tripathy and Lionel Mok).
- Master’s in Public Policy, Sciences Po Paris, France, 2018.
- Master’s in Environmental Law, La Sorbonne Paris I / Assas Paris II, France, 2017.
- Exchange Program with Concentration in International Relations, History and Art History, Saint-Andrews University, Scotland, 2015.
- Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences and Humanities, Sciences Po Paris, France, 2014.