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Eco-Capitalism [electronic resource] : Carbon Money, Climate Finance, and Sustainable Development / by Robert Guttmann

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Guttmann, Robert
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Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
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V, 321 pages : online resource
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Contents
1. The Challenge of Climate Change -- 2. Moving Towards an Ecologically Oriented Capitalism (“Eco-Capitalism”) -- 3. The Global Emergence of Climate Policy -- 4. Rethinking Growth -- 5. Pricing Carbon -- 6. Climate Finance -- 7. Carbon Money -- 8. Sustainable Development and Eco-Capitalism.
Summary
Our planet faces a systemic threat from climate change, which the world community of nations is ill-prepared to address, and this book argues that a new form of ecologically conscious capitalism is needed in order to tackle this serious and rising threat. While the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 has finally implemented a global climate policy regime, its modest means belie its ambitious goals. Our institutional financial organizations are not equipped to deal with the problems that any credible commitment to a low-carbon economy will have to confront. We will have to go beyond cap-and-trade schemes and limited carbon taxes to cut greenhouse gas emissions substantially in due time. This book offers a way forward toward that goal, with a conceptual framework that brings environmental preservation back into our macro-economic growth and forecasting models. This framework obliges firms to consider other goals beyond shareholder value maximization, outlining the principal tenets of a climate-friendly finance and introducing a new type of money linked to climate mitigation and adaptation efforts. .
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9783319923574
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