Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
This timely Research Agenda presents a much-needed legal perspective on interdisciplinary sustainable finance discourse to inspire and inform decision-making in future research and practice. Experts in diverse jurisdictions across Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania provide practice-oriented and theoretical contributions that interweave normative themes of justice, responsibility, purpose, meaning, pluralism and diversity.
Capturing the complexity of this emerging field, A Research Agenda for Law, Finance and the Environment addresses relevant financial instruments, institutions and legal interventions. Chapters cover key topics including the direct mobilization of green capital and facilitative modalities to enable systemic change and sustainable finance. The book also illuminates unconventional ideas and interventions that seek to disrupt established ways of approaching law, regulation and finance.
This vital Research Agenda is a stimulating read for students and scholars of environmental law, finance and banking law, climate action and sustainability, as well as international practitioners and policymakers seeking to better understand the field and improve their critical thinking and decision-making.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction to A Research Agenda for Law, Finance and the Environment 1
- Megan Bowman and Laura Mai
- PART I FROM FLOWS TO SURGE: MOBILIZING FINANCE AT SCALE
- 2. Governing finance and sustainability in Asia: actors, processes, and politics 13
- Felicia H M Liu
- 3. Out of time: voluntarism, climate change, and finance 35
- Laura Mai
- 4. A drop in the ocean? Multilateral finance for environmentally sound technology development and transfer 49
- Stephen Minas
- 5. Law and the International Financial Architecture: pathways and pivot points for achieving Paris objectives 69
- Megan Bowman and Tom Tayler
- PART II BUILDING A GROUNDSWELL: ENABLING MODALITIES
- 6. Gender equality and climate finance: state policy and practice 99
- Phoebe A. Bower
- 7. From climate risk to net-zero and beyond: is ecologically rational regulation emerging in the finance sector? 125
- Anita Foerster
- 8. Corporate climate change litigation as a new business risk 153
- Laura Knöpfel
- 9. Reimagining corporate purpose for a safe and just world 169
- Beate Sjåfjell and Jukka Mähönen
- PART III ChASING ThE RAPIDS: TURBULENT ACTIONS AND EXPERIMENTS
- 10. Placing zakat in African tax policy: a pathway to sustainable finance 191
- Lyla Latif
- 11. Financing Africa’s just transition with reparations distributed through the African Continental Free Trade Area
- Agreement 209
- Hannah Getachew
- 12. Damming the flow from fiction to praxis: coining a carbon currency 231
- Jose Raisey-Skeats, Bronwen Morgan and Naga Aditya Koneru
- 13. Tapping into public procurement to fund a transition to a circular construction economy in Europe: opportunities and
- challenges 251
- Feja Lesniewska
