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Financial System
This chapter gives an overview of the challenges of banks in the context of digitalization as part of the financial system and introduces potential...
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Introduction: The Twin Environmental Crises and Wishful Thinking
Current approaches to environmental stewardship are demonstrably failing given existential threats of climate change and biodiversity loss. This book...
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Is the Next Decade Scary or Exciting?
Stakeholders, the investment community, policymakers and companies are increasingly looking at ESG factors to compliment the profit-driven motive,...
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Financing Nature-Based Solutions
It is estimated that investments in nature-based solutions (NBS) need to increase four-fold by 2050 if the world is to meet various climate change,...
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Innovative Mechanisms of Financing Infrastructure
This chapter describes three types of innovative infrastructure financinginfrastructure financing. The first section pinpoints the need for...
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A Note on Transition Bonds and Finance
Transition finance will play a critical role in reaching agreed global climate targets. This chapter moves from an overview of the landscape of...
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Capital Planning and Budgeting for Infrastructure
In the U.S., state and local governments are responsible for maintaining and improving a substantial portion of our public infrastructure systems....
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Information as a Driver of Sustainable Finance
The development of sustainable finance builds on an efficient ecosystem of sustainability-related information. The incorporation into market prices...
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Other Issues
In July 2015, I attended a conference titled, “the third international conference on financing for development” in Addis AbabaAddis Ababa, Ethiopia...
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Virtual Currencies, ICOs and Central Bank Digital Currencies in China
This chapter provides an overview of the development of virtual currencies, ICOs and Central bank digital currencies in China.
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What’s in a Name? Map** the Galaxy of Green Finance
Green finance is an emerging and rapidly growing field of research, concerned with the financial implications of environmental protection for...
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Artificial Intelligence-Driven Digital Scalability and Growth Options
Scalability indicates the ability of a process, network, or system to handle a growing amount of work. Scalability fosters economic marginality,...
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Digitalization and ESG-Driven Valuation
Capital consists of assets used to produce goods and services. Whereas financial capital—i.e., monetary equity conferred by the shareholders in a...
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ESG-Driven Valuation: From Father Profit to Mother Nature
Capital consists of assets used to produce goods and services. Whereas financial capital—i.e., monetary equity conferred by the shareholders in a...
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Konzepte für extreme Ereignisse
Für die konkrete Beschreibung von „extremen Ereignissen“ – sowohl als seltene, aber schwerwiegende Ereignisse als auch zeitlich weit in der Zukunft...
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Jurisdictional Assessment of Environmental Taxation
This reflection on environmental tax jurisprudence deals with some of the relevant jurisdictional decisions in which the legality of taxes on grounds...
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Problem Orientation: Prominent Problems Facing China’s Fiscal and Taxation System
First, it analyzes the problems that need to be straightened out in the tax sharing fiscal system, and then discusses the problem of insufficient...
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Introduction—The Rise of Net Zero
.The driving force of this book is an investigation into the data, metrics, and impact of climate action, which is increasingly framed by a new...
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European Cooperative Banks and Sustainability
An unprecedented transformation of the European economy is needed to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, the EU Green Deal and the SDGs. This...
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Map** Out When and Where Climate Risk Becomes a Credit Risk
This chapter presents how different types of climate risk, transition risk and physical risk, can be assessed to understand the implications for the...