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Governing Carbon Markets with Distributed Ledger Technology
"Introduction: Overview of the issues explored in this Book The global climate crisis is one of the most significant issues of our times. Although climate change itself is not a novel phenomenon, the rate at which the Earth's temperature is changing is unprecedented. This is in large part due to anthropogenic causes - most notably elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, among other greenhouse gases (GHG)2. To limit and ultimately reverse the impacts of anthropogenic climate change, immediate action is essential. At the international level, the most recent step forward is the Paris Agreement (PA),3 an international and legally binding treaty that has been ratified by 189 signatories,4 and wa...
Transforming Climate Finance and Green Investment with Blockchains
Transforming Climate Finance and Green Investment with Blockchains establishes and analyzes the connection between this revolutionary technology and global efforts to combat climate change. The benefits of blockchain come through various profound alterations, such as the adoption of smart contracts that are set to redefine governance and regulatory structures and transaction systems in coming decades. Each chapter contains a problem statement that describes the challenges blockchain technology can address. The book brings together original visions and insights from global members of the Blockchain Climate Institute, comprising thought leaders, financial professionals, international developme...
Governing Carbon Markets with Distributed Ledger Technology
Carbon markets involve complex governance challenges, such as ensuring transparency of emissions, facilitating as well as recording transactions, overseeing market activity and preventing abuse. Conventionally, these have been addressed with a combination of regulatory, procedural and technical structures that impose significant burdens on market participants and administrators while remaining vulnerable to system shocks and illicit practices. Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) has the potential to address these problems. This volume offers the first book-length exploration of how carbon markets can be governed using DLT, offering conceptual and theoretical analysis, practical case studies, and a roadmap for implementation of a DLT-based architecture in major existing and emerging carbon markets. It surveys existing expertise on distributed ledger technology, provides progress updates from industry professionals, and shows how this technology could offer a cost-effective and sustainable solution to double-counting and other governance concerns identified as major challenges in the implementation of carbon markets.
Strengthening Disaster Resilience in Small States
Strengthening Disaster Resilience in Small States: Commonwealth Perspectives offers timely and expert analysis of differentiated exposure of small states to natural disasters, including an examination of specific interventions for strengthening small states’ resilience to this phenomenon
Companies and Climate Change
Company law can and should act as a bridge (rather than a barrier) to progressive corporate climate action.
De Gruyter Handbook of Sustainable Development and Finance
The De Gruyter Handbook of Sustainable Development and Finance explores the difficult and challenging issues confronting society and the environment, in the contexts of unprecedented climate change, bio-diversity loss and the global pandemic. In this seminal text exploring a wide range of topics, and in the devastating wake of COVID-19, scholars and practitioners analyse the effectiveness of current and proposed actions to build a sustainable future, and the public and private finance necessary to prevent an impending planetary catastrophe. The first section of the handbook introduces readers to the origins and evolution of sustainable development. An examination of public and private financ...
EIB Investment Report 2019/2020 - Key findings
The Investment Report, issued annually by the European Investment Bank, provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of investment and the financing of investment in the European Union. It combines the exploration of investment trends with in-depth analysis, focusing especially on the drivers and barriers to investment activity. The report leverages on a unique set of databases and survey data, including EIBIS, an annual survey of 12 500 firms in Europe, which focuses on their assessment of investment and investment finance conditions, and which allows analysis with firm balance sheet information. The report provides critical inputs to policy debates on the need for public action on investment, and on the types of intervention that can have the greatest impact. These key findings, provide a short accessible summary of the main report's messages.
Handbook of Environmental and Sustainable Finance
The use of financial concepts and tools to shape development is hardly new, but their recent adoption by advocates of sustainable environmental management has created opportunities for innovation in business and regulatory groups. The Handbook of Environmental and Sustainable Finance summarizes the latest trends and attitudes in environmental finance, balancing empirical research with theory and applications. It captures the evolution of environmental finance from a niche scholarly field to a mainstream subdiscipline, and it provides glimpses of future directions for research. Covering implications from the Kyoto and Paris Protocols, it presents an intellectually cohesive examination of problems, opportunities, and metrics worldwide. - Introduces the latest developments in environmental economics, sustainable accounting work, and environmental/sustainable finance - Explores the effects of environmental regulation on the economy and businesses - Emphasizes research about the trade-environmental regulation nexus, relevant for economics and business students
Rapporto della BEI sugli investimenti 2019/2020 - Risultati principali
Il Rapporto sugli investimenti è pubblicato annualmente dalla Banca europea per gli investimenti (BEI) e presenta un'ampia panoramica, corredata da un'attenta analisi, degli investimenti e dei relativi finanziamenti nell'Unione europea. Il testo illustra e analizza approfonditamente l'andamento degli investimenti, concentrandosi in particolar modo sui fattori che li favoriscono oppure che li ostacolano. Il Rapporto utilizza banche dati e indagini originali tra cui l'EIBIS, l'indagine annuale della BEI sugli investimenti che coinvolge 12 500 imprese in Europa e che si concentra, in particolar modo, sulle loro opinioni in materia di investimenti e relative condizioni di finanziamento. L'EIBIS consente anche di correlare le risposte delle imprese con i loro dati di bilancio. Il Rapporto fornisce spunti critici per il dibattito politico sulla necessità di un intervento del settore pubblico a livello di investimenti, e sui tipi di interventi potenzialmente più efficaci. I "Risultati principali" rappresentano una sintesi di facile consultazione del contenuto del rapporto integrale.
Rapport de la BEI sur l'investissement 2019-2020 - Principales conclusions
Publié chaque année par la Banque européenne d'investissement, le rapport sur l'investissement offre une vue d'ensemble et une analyse détaillée des investissements et de leur financement dans l'Union européenne. À l'examen des tendances de l'investissement est associée une analyse approfondie, spécialement consacrée aux moteurs et aux freins de l'activité d'investissement. Le rapport s'appuie sur un ensemble unique de bases de données et de données d'enquête, fournies notamment par l'enquête EIBIS. Menée chaque année auprès de 12 500 entreprises en Europe, cette enquête met l'accent sur l'évaluation que font les entreprises des conditions des investissements et de leur financement, et permet une mise en corrélation avec les données de bilan. Le rapport est une contribution essentielle au débat politique autour de la nécessité de mesures publiques en matière d'investissement et sur les types d'intervention qui peuvent avoir le plus grand impact. Les principales conclusions fournissent une synthèse concise et accessible des informations contenues dans le rapport principal.
