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2026年春季学期 “正午阳光——青年学者论坛”第6期活动安排如下：

讲座题目：Carbon Risk and Climate Talent Acquisition Under Labor Market Frictions

主讲人：肖战兵

香港城市大学经济和金融学系助理教授，博士毕业于英属哥伦比亚大学尚德商学院（UBC Sauder School of Business）金融系。他的成果发表于Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis、Journal of Financial Intermediation等。他目前的研究方向包括：气候金融、劳动金融、金融中介等。在加入香港城市大学之前，他曾在哈佛大学Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability担任研究员。

点评人：田达

南开大学金融学院助理教授，佛罗里达大学金融博士。研究领域为公司金融和ESG。

讲座时间：2026年4月23日（周四）12:00-13:30

讲座地点：金融学院116教室

内容摘要

We develop a novel measure of firms’ decarbonization efforts based on job postings that require climate-related skills. We find that firms with higher historical carbon emissions are more likely to target climate talent in hiring, especially climate laggards and firms with publicly declared climate strategies. This hiring response strengthens during periods of heightened media attention to climate issues but weakens when climate policy uncertainty increases. The relationship becomes more pronounced following the Paris Agreement, which introduces an exogenous increase in carbon risk. We further show that firms allocate climate hiring toward locations where they operate higher-emissions plants and where the local supply of climate-related talent is abundant. Moreover, climate hiring significantly reduces firms’ emissions intensity, particularly in labor markets with lower hiring frictions, where access to specialized talent facilitates innovation in climate technologies. Additional analysis shows that firms more active in climate hiring face a lower cost of capital. Overall, the findings underscore human capital as a key lever in corporate climate mitigation strategies and highlight the importance of easing labor market frictions to support decarbonization.