Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance: Themed Issue on Governing Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Climate Finance

Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance is a peer-reviewed, fully open access journal published by Cambridge University Press as part of its Cambridge Forum journal series. It explores how corporate-sector action on climate change can contribute to a sustainable future, and the decision-making processes and legal, regulatory and financial frameworks needed to make that happen. The journal publishes academic articles alongside contributions from non-academic experts and policymakers, as well as papers jointly written by academics and their counterparts in business. It works on a themed issue format that draws together business, law, finance and allied disciplines. Its online ISSN is 3049-8503.

The journal invites submissions for the themed issue “Governing Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Climate Finance”. The call notes that AI is reshaping corporate strategies, market structures and governance models. It is increasingly used in climate risk assessment, ESG data and disclosures, emissions and natural-capital monitoring, and in financial decisions on capital allocation, risk pricing and portfolios. That creates real opportunities for climate finance, but the scale and speed of adoption also raise concerns about energy and resource use, data quality and accountability, market concentration, systemic risk, and environmental and social harms such as higher emissions and e-waste.

The issue seeks governance-oriented, analytical and applied work on how corporations, regulators, central banks and market participants can design, deploy and govern AI so that it supports robust, inclusive and credible climate finance systems.

• Isabela Ribeiro Damaso Maia, Central Bank of Brazil
• Viviane Helena Torinelli, Central Bank of Brazil, FDC and FIA Business School, Brazil
• Michel Alexandre, Central Bank of Brazil and IDP, Brazil
• Runhuan Feng, Tsinghua University, China

Submissions may engage with, but are not limited to, three sets of themes.

Governance and regulatory approaches

• Governing emerging systemic risks where climate, finance and AI meet
• Prudential, supervisory and regulatory approaches to AI and data-driven decision-making in finance
• Responsible, ethical and trustworthy AI frameworks in the financial sector
• Lessons from climate governance for AI governance in climate finance

Trade-offs and constraints

• Energy, carbon, water and resource footprints of AI and digital financial infrastructure
• AI deployment, financial market concentration and competition dynamics
• Limits of technological solutions and governance gaps in climate finance and climate policy

Opportunities and applications

• AI, data and digital technologies in climate finance and climate risk management
• AI-enabled measurement, reporting, verification (MRV) and impact accounting
• ESG data architectures, transparency and disclosure frameworks
• Satellite data, fintechs and innovation addressing sustainability data gaps
• Lessons from innovation labs, tech sprints, fintech ecosystems and public-private experimentation

The journal is written for academics, legal and financial advisers, corporate executives, board members, regulators, investors and policymakers, and it accepts contributions from both academic and non-academic authors. The guest editors particularly encourage submissions that pair analytical depth with practical relevance and include empirical or real-world use cases. Selection will aim for a diversity of geographical perspectives, including those of emerging and developing economies, which makes the call a good fit for Indian researchers working on financial regulation, climate law or AI governance.

The journal welcomes research articles, review articles, policy and practice perspectives, and case studies. Indicative word limits, excluding references, are:

• Research articles: about 6,000 to 10,000 words
• Review articles: about 6,000 to 8,000 words
• Case studies: about 6,000 to 8,000 words
• Policy and practice perspectives: up to 4,000 words

Authors should pick the format that best suits their contribution, in line with the journal’s author instructions.

Full papers are submitted through the journal’s ScholarOne peer review system, which needs its own account separate from a Cambridge Core login. Read the author instructions and the preparing your materials page before submitting. Because the journal wants to reach policymakers and practitioners as well as academics, authors are encouraged to write in an accessible style. Articles are peer reviewed for both content and style and are published digitally and open access. All authors must declare any funding and competing interests at submission.

The journal is wholly open access, and every article is published Gold Open Access under a Creative Commons licence. Where an article processing charge applies, Cambridge University Press lists it at GBP 2,610 or USD 3,655, plus any applicable taxes. The Press states that no author will face a financial barrier to publication. The charge is often covered by institutional open access agreements, and Cambridge also offers equity initiatives, APC waivers and discounts. Check the fees and pricing page, and whether your institution has an agreement with Cambridge, before you submit.

• Call for papers launched: mid-September 2026
• Deadline for full papers: 5 January 2027
• Peer review: January to March 2027
• Revisions and final decisions: March to May 2027
• Initial publication of accepted papers: from May 2027, with remaining papers published on a rolling basis

The themed issue will open with an editorial by the guest editors.