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Banking on Climate Change - How Finance Actors and Transnational Regulatory Regimes Are Responding

Author
Bowman M.
Date
2015
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-094158)
Publisher | Place of publication
Kluwer Law International | The Hague, The Netherlands
ISBN
9789041152237
Document type
Monography/book
Language
English
Field of application
International
Subject
Air & atmosphere
Keyword
Economy and environment Climate change
Abstract

It is now known that our climate change trajectory is far beyond initial predictions of a worst case scenario. The imperative to move to a low-carbon global economy calls for the most significant market and economic transition in modern history. This will require massive financial input so it is essential to understand the ever-increasing role of private finance actors - banks, insurers, and institutional investors - in helping to meet this global challenge.

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