Banking on Climate Change provides you with a comprehensive, cross-jurisdictional analysis of legislative and policy responses to climate change and the financial crisis in key market economies. The climate finance field is extremely new. This first qualitative study on corporate climate finance...

Against a background of regulatory uncertainty, this article contends that voluntary action by the banking industry has potential to facilitate climate change mitigation and the transition to a low-carbon economy. First, it evidences the relationship between the banking industry and climate...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF), established in 2010, is a significant and potentially innovative addition to the frameworks in place under the UN Climate Convention to mobilise finance for climate change mitigation and adaptation. In addition to its challenges of operationalisation as a new...

A clear imperative in addressing the climate crisis is to turn finance promises into climate action. This article explores this challenge through the lens of the emerging concept of ‘legal readiness for climate finance’. It is defined as the degree to which a country has coherent regulatory...

The global financial crisis (GFC) precipitated a regulatory conundrum about how best to regulate banks. This article takes a seemingly tangential approach to this conundrum: it investigates whether and how voluntary corporate action on climate change presents a redemptive opportunity for banks;...