Making the Financial System Sustainable

Hardback

Main Details

Title Making the Financial System Sustainable
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Paul G. Fisher
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:300
Dimensions(mm): Height 240,Width 160
Category/GenreFinance and accounting
Business and management
Business ethics
ISBN/Barcode 9781108842297
ClassificationsDewey:332
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 12 November 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The EU Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth is the most advanced and comprehensive policy agenda on sustainability in the world. But is it going in the right direction? Acting as a bridge between policy and academia, this up-to-date contribution to the global policy debate brings together some of the leading experts from the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, to discuss how the financial system needs to be reformed to promote sustainability. Finance has long been criticized for being short-term focused and concerned with maximizing returns to intermediaries, rather than with the interests of savers and borrowers. The financial system must now take into account environmental, social and governance considerations to support a sustainable economy and this volume offers new insights on the way forward. A must-read for anyone working on financial sector policy and sustainability.

Author Biography

Paul G. Fisher is a Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

Reviews

'Paul Fisher and co-authors provide a welcome and much-needed assessment of how the financial system must underpin sustainable economic growth. This is an important contribution to a rapidly changing landscape.' Andrew Bailey, Bank of England and Chair of the Monetary Policy Committee 'Practical. Candid. Timely. A must-read for finance practitioners who have heard the calls to action and are seeking the practical ways forward for finance to respond to the climate science.' Rhian-Mari Thomas, Green Finance Institute