Central Banking, Climate Change and Green Finance

Main author: Dikau, Simon
Other authors: Volz, Ulrich
Format: Monographs and Working Papers           
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description Responsibility for financial and macroeconomic stability implicitly or explicitly lies with the central bank, which therefore ought to address climate-related and other environmental risks on a systemic level. Furthermore, central banks, through their regulatory oversight over money, credit, and the financial system, are in a powerful position to support the development of green finance models and enforce an adequate pricing of environmental and carbon risk by financial institutions. The central topic of this paperare the public financial governance policies through which central banks, as well as other relevant financial regulatory agencies, can address environmental risk and promote sustainable finance. The paperfirst discusses the reasons why central banks should be concerned with aligning finance with sustainable development. Second, the paperreviews the tools and instruments that can be utilized by central banks and financial regulatory agencies to address environmental risk and promote green finance and sustainable development. Third, the paperprovides a brief review of green public financial governance initiatives.
format Monographs and Working Papers
author Dikau, Simon
author_facet Dikau, Simon
Volz, Ulrich
authorStr Dikau, Simon
author_letter Dikau, Simon
author2 Volz, Ulrich
author2Str Volz, Ulrich
title Central Banking, Climate Change and Green Finance
publisher Asian Development Bank Institute Working Paper no. 867
publishDate 2018
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/26445/