Sustainable Finance in Europe

This second edition brings together the views of expert academics and practitioners on the latest regulatory developments in sustainable finance in Europe and includes 5 new chapters on sustainable remuneration, reporting, lending, green monetary policy and ESG. The volume includes a wide range of cutting-edge issues, which relate to three main themes along which the volume is structured: (1) corporate governance; (2) monetary policy and financial stability ; and (3) financial markets. With individual contributions deploying different methods of analysis, including theoretical contributions on the status quo of macro-financial research as well as law and economics approaches, the collection encourages interdisciplinary readership and will appeal to those researching capital markets law, European financial law, and sustainable finance, as well as practitioners within the finance industry.

PART I: GENERAL ASPECTS. - Chapter 1: Sustainable Finance in Europe: Setting the Scene. - Chapter 2: The European Commission s Sustainable Finance Action Plan and Other International Initiatives. - Chapter 3: Sustainable Digital Finance and the Pursuit of Environmental Sustainability. - PART II: SUSTAINABLE FINANCE AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE. - Chapter 4: Corporate Purpose and Sustainability Due Diligence. - Chapter 5: The Role of EU Securities Regulation in Sustainable Corporate Governance. - Chapter 6: Corporate Sustainability Reporting. - Chapter 7: Integrating Sustainability in EU Corporate Governance Codes. - PART III: SUSTAINABLE FINANCE, SYSTEMIC RISK & MONETARY POLICY. - Chapter 8: Climate change as a Systemic Risk in Finance Are Macroprudential Authorities Up to the Task? . - Chapter 9: Prudential Requirements for ESG Risks of Banks . - Chapter 10: The Role of Prudential Regulation and Supervision of Insurers in Sustainable Finance . - Chapter 11: The ECB s New Green Monetary Policy. - PART IV: SUSTAINABLE FINANCE AND FINANCIAL MARKETS. - Chapter 12: Sustainable Finance: An Overview of ESG in the Financial Markets. - Chapter 13: The Taxonomy Regulation and its Implementation . - Chapter 14: Sustainability Disclosure in the EU Financial Sector. - Chapter 15: Adverse impact indicators as a measure of ESG risk? Asset management approaches to the integration of ESG risk in the investment process and their interaction with the due diligence process in the context of SFDR. - Chapter 16: ESG Ratings Agencies: The Emerging Power. - Chapter 17: Integrating Sustainable Finance Into the MiFID II and IDD Investor Protection Frameworks. - Chapter 18: Capital Markets Legislation and Emission Allowances: a Fruitful Marriage? .