Sustainable Finance in Europe
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The aim of this edited volume is to bring together the views of expert academics and practitioners on the latest regulatory developments in sustainable finance in Europe. The volume includes a wide range of cutting-edge issues, which relate to three main themes along which the volume is structured: (1) corporate governance; (2) financial stability; and (3) financial markets. With individual contributions deploying different methods of analysis, including theoretical contributions on the status quo of macro-financial research as well as law and economics approaches, the collection encourages interdisciplinary readership and will appeal to those researching capital markets law, European financial law, and sustainable finance, as well as practitioners within the finance industry.
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Danny Busch is Full Professor (Chair) of Financial Law at Radboud University, in the Netherlands, where he is also the founding Director of the Financial Law Centre. He is a Fellow of the Commercial Law Centre, University of Oxford, UK and Visiting Professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy and at Université de Nice Côte d'Azur, France. He also is a member of the Dutch Appeals Committee of the Financial Services Complaints Tribunal (KiFiD, an ADR-body).
Guido Ferrarini is Emeritus Professor of Business Law at the University of Genoa. in Italy. He is a founder and fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), a member of the European Company Law Experts (ECLE) Group, an Academic member of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Finance and Law (EUSFiL) and an Academic Member of the European Banking Institute. He is chairman of an alternative finance platform and board member of a private bank.
Seraina Grünewald holds the Chair for European and Comparative Financial Law at Radboud University Nijmegen, in the Netherlands, where she is also a member of the core team of the interdisciplinary Radboud Centre for Sustainability Challenges. She is a member of the Academic Board of the European Banking Institute and a research fellow of the interdisciplinary University Research Priority Programme on Financial Market Regulation at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Content
PART I: GENERAL ASPECTS.- Chapter 1: Sustainable Finance in Europe: Setting the Scene; Danny Busch, Guido Ferrarini & Seraina Grünewald.- Chapter 2 : The European Commission's Sustainable Finance Action Plan and Other International Initiatives; Danny Busch, Guido Ferrarini & Arthur van den Hurk.- Chapter 3: Sustainable Digital Finance and the pursuit of Environmental Sustainability; Marco Dell'Erba.- PART II: SUSTAINABLE FINANCE AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.- Chapter 4: Redefining Corporate Purpose: Sustainability as a Game Changer; Guido Ferrarini.- Chapter 5: Sustainable Corporate Governance: The Role of the Law; Alessio M. Pacces.- Chapter 6: Integrating sustainability in EU Corporate Governance Codes; Michele Siri & Shanshan Zhu.- PART III: SUSTAINABLE FINANCE AND SYSTEMIC RISK.- Chapter 7: Climate change as a systemic risk in finance - are macroprudential authorities up to the task?; Seraina Grünewald.- Chapter 8: Climate change as a threat to financial stability: can solutions to this problem accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy? A critical review of policy and market-based approaches; Sara Lovisolo.- Chapter 9: Which role for the prudential supervision of banks in Sustainable Finance?; Antonio Luca Riso.- PART IV: SUSTAINABLE FINANCE AND FINANCIAL MARKETS.- Chapter 10: Sustainable Finance: an overview of ESG in the Financial Markets; Marieke Driessen.- Chapter 11: The Taxonomy Regulation: more important than just as an element of the Capital Markets Union; Christos V. Gortsos.- Chapter 12: Sustainability Disclosure in the EU Financial Sector; Danny Busch.- Chapter 13: Integrating sustainable finance into the MiFID II and IDD investor protection frameworks; Veerle Colaert.- Chapter 14: Emission allowances as financial instruments; Filippo Annunziata.