Sustainable Finance in Europe

Danny Busch is Full Professor (Chair) of Financial Law at Radboud University, in the Netherlands, where he is also the founding Director of the Financial Law Centre. He is a Fellow of the Commercial Law Centre, University of Oxford, UK and Visiting Professor at Université de Nice Côte d'Azur, France. He also is a Deputy Justice in the Amsterdam Court of Appeal and a member of the Dutch Appeals Committee of the Financial Services Complaints Tribunal (KiFiD, an ADR-body).

Guido Ferrarini is Emeritus Professor of Business Law at the University of Genoa. in Italy. He is a founder and fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), a member of the European Company Law Experts (ECLE) Group, an Academic member of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Finance and Law (EUSFiL) and an Academic Member of the European Banking Institute. He was chairman and founder of an alternative finance platform and is board member of a private bank.

Seraina Grünewald holds the Chair for European and Comparative Financial Law at Radboud University Nijmegen, in the Netherlands, where she is also in the core team of the interdisciplinary Radboud Centre for Sustainability Challenges. She is a member of the Academic Board of the European Banking Institute and affiliated with the interdisciplinary University Research Priority Programme on Financial Market Regulation at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, as well as the Sustainable Finance Lab in the Netherlands.

PART I: GENERAL ASPECTS.- Chapter 1: Sustainable Finance in Europe: Setting the Scene.- Chapter 2: The European Commission's Sustainable Finance Action Plan and Other International Initiatives.- Chapter 3: Sustainable Digital Finance and the Pursuit of Environmental Sustainability.- PART II: SUSTAINABLE FINANCE AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.- Chapter 4: Corporate Purpose and Sustainability Due Diligence.- Chapter 5: The Role of EU Securities Regulation in Sustainable Corporate Governance.- Chapter 6: Corporate Sustainability Reporting.- Chapter 7: Integrating Sustainability in EU Corporate Governance Codes.- PART III: SUSTAINABLE FINANCE, SYSTEMIC RISK & MONETARY POLICY.- Chapter 8: Climate change as a Systemic Risk in Finance - Are Macroprudential Authorities Up to the Task?.- Chapter 9: Prudential Requirements for ESG Risks of Banks .- Chapter 10: The Role of Prudential Regulation and Supervision of Insurers in Sustainable Finance  .- Chapter 11: The ECB's New Green Monetary Policy.- PART IV: SUSTAINABLE FINANCE AND FINANCIAL MARKETS.- Chapter 12: Sustainable Finance: An Overview of ESG in the Financial Markets.- Chapter 13: The Taxonomy Regulation and its Implementation .- Chapter 14: Sustainability Disclosure in the EU Financial Sector.- Chapter 15: Adverse impact indicators as a measure of ESG risk? Asset management approaches to the integration of ESG risk in the investment process and their interaction with the due diligence process in the context of SFDR.- Chapter 16: ESG Ratings Agencies: The Emerging Power.- Chapter 17: Integrating Sustainable Finance Into the MiFID II and IDD Investor Protection Frameworks.- Chapter 18: Capital Markets Legislation and Emission Allowances: a Fruitful Marriage?.