Webpages tagged with «Sustainable Finance»
The future of sustainable lending depends less on who the creditor is than on whether borrowing states have a real say in the rules, contracts and conditions that shape their own development.
Brazil’s new Sustainable Taxonomy shows how the State can redesign the rules that shape corporate behaviour, not just punish companies for breaking them.
Sovereign climate-tagged loans from multilateral development banks reproduce the austerity conditions that contradict the Paris Agreement’s just transition commitments and entrench Global North–South inequalities.
Climate litigation is no longer aimed only at major emitters. It is increasingly turning towards banks and financial institutions, on the premise that those who finance fossil-intensive activities may also bear responsibility for delaying the transition.
By Beate Sjåfjell, Charlotte Villiers and Georgina Tsagas, 27 February 2023
By Hanna Ahlström — 13 February, 2019