Finance, Law, and Sustainability: the EU sustainable finance action plan by Boudewijn de Bruin

Finance, law, and sustainability are more and more interconnected.

When law takes over, important questions must be asked. What is the power of legislation and litigation, and what legal instruments and tactics are appropriate? Boudewijn will zoom in on legislative initiatives around sustainable finance deriving from the Action Plan Financing Sustainable Growth published by the European Commission in 2018.

He will discuss the appropriateness of various instruments proposed in the Action Plan, using a reflexive law approach coupled with insights from behavioural economics and epistemology. He will point to the challenges such an approach encounters, and gesture at some tentative suggestions how to address them.

This meeting of the Phinance Online Seminars will discuss Boudwjin’s view with contributions from Arnaud Van Caenegem (KU Leuven), Joakim Sandberg (University of Gothenburg), and Boudewijn himself, which will be followed by an open debate.


17:00 CET, 25 November 2021

Program

17:00 
Welcome

Boudewijn de Bruin
University of Groningen


17:40
Discussants

Arnaud Van Caenegem
KU Leuven
Joakim Sandberg 
University of Gothenburg


18:00 
Debate


Chair Emiliano Ippoliti, Sapienza University of Rome


Phinance Online Seminars are organized by Phinance, a Philosophy & Finance Network

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