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Local Tax Potential in an Urban Setting
This chapter explores the local tax potential to consolidate the urban local budgets in India. A case is made to augment the scope of user charges on...
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Stranded Assets and the Transition to Low-Carbon Economy
In the context of the low-carbon transition, stranded assets can be defined as assets that have suffered unanticipated or premature write-downs,...
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Carbon Trading with Blockchain
Blockchain has the potential to accelerate the worldwide deployment of an emissions trading system (ETS) and improve the efficiency of existing...
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Petrostates
It has been long observed that having a sizeable extraction sector can have a very negative impact on a country’s economic growth. For example,...
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The Climate Dimension of Fiscal Policy Sustainability: Best Practices in Green Budgeting and Lessons for Portugal
The green budgeting technique is being adopted by an increasing number of countries and has the potential to align fiscal policy objectives with...
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Industry Analysis in the Context of the Green Finance Development in China
Under a strong global push for green finance, China’s green building, energy, and transport industries will see new development opportunities. This...
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Planning for the Carbon Crisis: Reimagining the Power of the US Central Bank and Financial Institutions to Avert a Twenty-First-Century Climate and Financial Disaster
The energy industry in the United States is headed toward an economic crisis with disastrous financial and climatic implications, both with national...
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A Natural Approach to Net Zero
A widely accepted view among leading sustainability standard setters and guidance providers holds that to achieve Net Zero, companies must first...
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How Do Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Factors Impact on Public Finance Performance? Risk, Efficiency, and Public Financial System Perspectives
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risk is becoming increasingly important in conditions of ongoing environmental and social change. This...
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The Impact of Climate Change on the Economy and Financial System: Legal Aspects of the Bank of England’s Response
Climate-related financial risks constitute a significant and distinct challenge for the financial services sector and macro-economy. As such, these...
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Two Forms of the Unknown
This chapter explores two fundamentally different forms of the unknown and the ways in which they affect our view of the world, our investment...
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The Future of Sovereign Wealth Funds: Challenges and Opportunities
The Palgrave Handbook of Sovereign Wealth Funds aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of SWFs from a multidimensional perspective. It spans the...
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Sha** Urban Public Finance
Basic elements from different aspects of urban local finance discussed in the book are assembled. The objective is to identify general and specific...
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Emerging Challenges in Urban Local Finance
This chapter assembles the basic issues in urban local finance in a historical context and covers later developments that challenge the existence of...
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Best Practices and Case Studies
In the previous chapters, we outlined the theoretical framework for a new monetary regime and the positive impacts it would have, which would enable...
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Green Finance Initiatives and Their Potential to Drive Sustainable Development
This study examines the role of green finance initiatives in driving sustainable development. It provides an overview of green finance principles,...
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Carbon Money
While we have made some recent progress in the direction of creating a new system of climate finance, the latter would be greatly boosted if linked...
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When Climate Change Knocks on the Finance Minister’s Door
Traditionally, the management of climate change issues has been the responsibility of environment ministers. However, due to its cross-cutting nature...
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Introduction
This book presents new research on innovative financial instruments and approaches available to implement and mainstream nature-based solutions (NBS)...