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Eu Action Plan on Sustainable Finance: cost of capital, impacts and effectiveness

Sara Lovisolo
January 2020 - n. 1
Keywords: Sostenibilità, Costo del capitale, Eu Action Plan on Sustainable Finance, Tassonomia, Indici climatici, Reporting di sostenibilità
Jel codes: M14, G21, G28

The European Commission's Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth presents a series of measures whose stated objective is to solve some problems or market failures that hinder the large-scale adoption of sustainable finance practices. But why do we need more sustainable finance? This article examines the theories of change commonly associated with sustainable finance and proposes to use the cost of capital as an indicator of the impact of policy intervention.

 

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