08
March
2023
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17:09
Europe/London
SCI blog post explores themes surrounding climate governance and central banking
The piece explores how central banks could play a significant and constructive role in climate governance as well as what would make them significant obstacles to the transformation needed.
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In this blog Prof Best and Prof Paterson discuss themes surrounding climate governance and central banking, which emerged during a recent workshop involving leading scholars hosted by the and in February at the ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp.
In the last few years, as central banks have begun to pay attention to climate change, there has been a flurry of academic interest in what central banks are doing and the potential this might hold for climate change action. Yet the crises of the last three years – COVID-19, the return of inflation, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine – have complicated the picture, leading us to look again at central banks and their potential role in climate governance and policy.
You can read the full piece .