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Sustainable finance: perspectives on some of the difficult questions

19 March 2024 / Author(s): Dominic Gregory
Issue: July 2023 / Categories: Spotlight

This article explores some of the current thinking behind “sustainable finance”. After briefly describing what is involved and offering up some perspectives, it raises questions and sets out modest proposals in reply. Several different questions are raised but the common theme explored is – whether or not sustainable finance as currently envisaged risks making the situation any worse than it already is.

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