TY - BOOK AU - Jager, Johannes [Editor] AU - Dziwok, Ewa [Editor] TI - Understanding green finance: : a critical assessment and alternative perspectives T2 - Elgar Understanding Series SN - 9781803927541 U1 - 332 PY - 2024/// CY - Cheltenham PB - Edward Elgar Publishing KW - Finance - Environmental aspects N1 - Table of content: PART I INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL ASPECTS 1 A critical overview of green finance 2 Ewa Dziwok and Johannes Jäger 2 The defence of nature: resisting the financialisaton of the earth 18 John Bellamy Foster 3 Money and a green economy: financialised solutions to the environmental problems 33 Ismail Ertürk 4 Limitations of conventional private green finance industry and strategies 46 Christophe Revelli and Christian Walter 5 Ecological money and finance: insight from post-Keynesian economics 58 Thomas Lagoarde-Segot PART II CURRENT APPROACHES TO GREEN FINANCE AND GREEN MONETARY POLICY 6 Current policy initiatives on green finance in the EU: the green taxonomy in the global context 73 Max Knapp, Julia Litofcenko, Silva Maringele, Christoph Rogers, Andreas Streinzer, Lina Schmid and Mario Taschwer 7 Challenges of green finance in Latin America 88 Leonardo E. Stanley 8 Green central banking policy between risk-based and reformist objectives 102 Elena Almeida, Simon Dikau and Hugh Miller 9 Multilateral development banks, corporations and banks: public and private actors between brown and green strategies 119 Olaf Weber and Asher Imam 10 A neoliberal agenda: decentralized financial innovation to enhance sustainable finance 135 Elisabeth Springler PART III CRITICAL AND ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE FUTURE OF GREEN FINANCE 11 Finance, the green transition and climate justice in the Global South 148 Luiz Garcia 12 Financing a just transition to a carbon-free world: a developmental perspective 160 Richard Kozul-Wright, Katie Gallogly-Swan and Maria Ahmed 13 Prospects and roadblocks to a “sustainable” international monetary and financial system 183 Jeffrey Althouse and Romain Svartzman 14 Climate-financing carrots and sticks in South Africa: profound flaws in “Just Energy Transition Partnership“ and “Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism” pilot projects 200 Patrick Bond 15 Neoliberal, reformist and transformative-progressive green finance and possible futures 215 Ewa Dziwok and Johannes Jäger [https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/understanding-green-finance-9781803927541.html?srsltid=AfmBOoq-WaEbA3hDnVxXUdnLfiGf8Ee5NfyHmmS2uu8Wo4Dp9Kr53tzN] N2 - Exploring how green finance has become a key strategy for the financial industry in the wake of the 2007-08 financial crisis, this timely book critically assesses the current dominant forms of neoliberal green finance. Understanding Green Finance delivers a pioneering analysis of the topic, covering the essential tenets of green finance with an emphasis on critical approaches to mainstream views and presenting alternatives insights and perspectives. This prescient book first introduces the concept of, and current approaches to, green finance and green monetary policy, ultimately presenting a range of potential alternatives including both reformist and transformative-progressive approaches. Chapters explore how neoliberal green finance tends to deepen financialisation, and does not effectively address environmental problems, offering insights into reformist forms of green finance that insist that state regulation and public financing are crucial to tackling environmental problems. A crucial contribution to the debate surrounding the financial industry’s role in addressing the environmental crisis, this book will be beneficial for academics and students with an interest in environmental, ecological and financial economics. The accessible writing style will also prove valuable for policy makers, civil society professionals and financial and sustainability experts. (https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/understanding-green-finance-9781803927541.html?srsltid=AfmBOoq-WaEbA3hDnVxXUdnLfiGf8Ee5NfyHmmS2uu8Wo4Dp9Kr53tzN) ER -