On June 18, Springer Nature held the 7th China New Development Awards ceremony in Beijing, announcing that 10 English-language academic books were awarded the China New Development Awards in recognition of their important contributions to the promotion of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Climate Finance: Supporting a Sustainable Energy Transition, edited by Fei Wu, Dayong Zhang and Qiang Ji won the award.
Founded in 2019 by Springer Nature, China New Development Awards recognize books that advance the achievement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and make a real-world contribution to solving a specific social development problem. The awards cover the fields of agricultural economics, computing, medicine, public health, semiconductors, urban ecology, social sciences, and international relations, and include book categories such as monographs, textbooks, and large-scale reference books, each of which is directly related to one or more of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 10 books honored this year were selected from nearly 1,000 English-language academic books published by Chinese authors at Springer and Palgrave Macmillan in the last year.
This award-winning work is the first book in the Climate Change and Energy Transition series (ISSN 2731-9903) of International Society for Energy Transition Studies. Focusing on the frontiers of climate finance, the book elucidates the importance of climate finance in supporting the energy transition and explores how to address the key financial issues in addressing climate change. The book is based on solid research findings, combines financial theory and market practice, and reflects the complexity of issues related to climate investment and finance with clear policy relevance. The book has been downloaded more than four thousand times since its launch on the Springer Nature website in 2024 and has had a wide academic impact.
