<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://ziningyuan.github.io/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://ziningyuan.github.io/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-04-13T16:44:25+00:00</updated><id>https://ziningyuan.github.io/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Zining (Pearl) Yuan</title><subtitle>Hi! I’m a PhD researcher in Climate Finance, exploring how financial systems respond to – and shape – the transition to a low-carbon future. This site shares my research, projects, and reflections along the way. Welcome to the journey.</subtitle><author><name>Zining Yuan</name><email>zining.1.yuan@kcl.ac.uk</email></author><entry><title type="html">COP30: Climate Finance Beyond Goal Setting — Building a System That Can Deliver</title><link href="https://ziningyuan.github.io/posts/2025/11/cop30-climate-finance/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="COP30: Climate Finance Beyond Goal Setting — Building a System That Can Deliver" /><published>2025-11-20T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2025-11-20T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://ziningyuan.github.io/posts/2025/11/COP30-Climate-Finance</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://ziningyuan.github.io/posts/2025/11/cop30-climate-finance/"><![CDATA[<p>I recently reflected on the direction of climate finance ahead of COP30 in a piece for King’s College London. The article discusses why ambition alone isn’t enough. What matters is building a system capable of delivering real transitions on the ground.</p>

<p>Read the full article here:</p>

<p>👉 <strong><a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/cop30-climate-finance-beyond-goal-setting-building-a-system-that-can-deliver">COP30: Climate Finance Beyond Goal Setting — Building a System That Can Deliver</a></strong></p>

<p>The piece highlights:</p>
<ul>
  <li>why credible climate finance systems matter,</li>
  <li>the challenges faced by countries (especially in the Global South),</li>
  <li>and how policy design influences both private capital flows and transition outcomes.</li>
</ul>

<p>This blog post will stay on my site as a short, permanent pointer to the full KCL article.</p>]]></content><author><name>Zining Yuan</name><email>zining.1.yuan@kcl.ac.uk</email></author><category term="climate finance" /><category term="COP30" /><category term="policy" /><category term="transitions" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[I recently reflected on the direction of climate finance ahead of COP30 in a piece for King’s College London. The article discusses why ambition alone isn’t enough. What matters is building a system capable of delivering real transitions on the ground.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Green Gains and Growing Pains: A New Measure of Firms’ Exposure to Climate Transition</title><link href="https://ziningyuan.github.io/posts/2024/07/green-gains-and-growing-pains/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Green Gains and Growing Pains: A New Measure of Firms’ Exposure to Climate Transition" /><published>2024-07-31T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-07-31T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://ziningyuan.github.io/posts/2024/07/Green-gains-and-growing-pains</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://ziningyuan.github.io/posts/2024/07/green-gains-and-growing-pains/"><![CDATA[<p>This post highlights a recent King’s College London feature discussing our research on forward-looking measures of firms’ exposure to climate transition risk.</p>

<p>The article introduces <strong>Climate Transition Value-at-Risk (CTVaR)</strong> — a forward-looking assessment of how firms’ profitability may change under a net-zero policy environment.</p>

<p>You can read the full article here:</p>

<p>👉 <strong><a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/green-gains-and-growing-pains-a-new-measure-of-firms-exposure-to-climate-transition">Green Gains and Growing Pains: A New Measure of Firms’ Exposure to Climate Transition</a></strong></p>

<p>The article covers:</p>
<ul>
  <li>why emissions alone are a poor proxy for transition exposure,</li>
  <li>how firms’ future cash flows are affected by transition pathways, and</li>
  <li>what this means for investors and policymakers.</li>
</ul>

<p>This blog post serves as a short summary and permanent pointer to the full KCL feature.</p>]]></content><author><name>Zining Yuan</name><email>zining.1.yuan@kcl.ac.uk</email></author><category term="climate finance" /><category term="transition risk" /><category term="CTVaR" /><category term="research" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[This post highlights a recent King’s College London feature discussing our research on forward-looking measures of firms’ exposure to climate transition risk.]]></summary></entry></feed>