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A volume of essays by experts and thought leaders of the European Commission's High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance.
List of contents
Contributors; Foreword Christian Thimann; Preface Paul G. Fisher; Introduction Kajetan Czy¿ and Paul Fisher; 1. Capitalism meets multilateralism Paddy Arber and Steve Waygood; 2. Public meets private: sustainable finance for a sustainable economy Ingrid Holmes; 3. Central banking and climate change Kern Alexander and Paul Fisher; 4. Sustainable finance and prudential regulation of financial institutions Esko Kivisaari; 5. Transparency and accountability standards for sustainable and responsible investments Flavia Micilotta; 6. Environmental risk analysis by financial institutions Nina Seega and Andrew Voysey; 7. Sustainable governance and leadership Claudia Kruse and Michael Schmidt; 8. ESG risks and opportunities: a fiduciary duty perspective Will Martindale, Elodie Feller and Rory Sullivan; 9. Active and responsible: a cost efficient model for integrating sustainability Magnus Billing and Carina Silberg; 10. Passive-aggressive or just engaged: new active ownership approaches through benchmarks David Harris; 11. Financing a just transition: how to connect the environmental and social dimensions of structural change Nick Robins; 12. Sustainable finance for citizens Anne-Catherine Husson-Traore; 13. Individual impact investors: the silenced majority Stan Dupré; 14. Strengthening green finance by better integrating the social dimensions in the EU's sustainable finance laws Myriam Vander Stichele.
About the author
Paul G. Fisher is a Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
Summary
This volume of essays is a must-read for anyone working in connection with financial sector policy and sustainability. Acting as a bridge between policy and academia, this volume brings leading experts of the HLEG together to discuss how the financial system can be reformed to promote sustainability.
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'Practical. Candid. Timely. A must-read for finance practitioners who have heard the calls to action and are seeking the practical ways forward for finance to respond to the climate science.' Rhian-Mari Thomas, Green Finance Institute
