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A Sustainable Finance Plan for the European Union
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A Sustainable Finance Plan for the European Union

Ingrid Holmes and Sam Maule
E3G, 2016
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9

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  • Analytical
  • Innovative
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Social inequality, excessive public indebtedness and high unemployment plague the European Union. In 2016, the European Commission launched a program of sustainable finance to support remedies for these quandaries and to return the EU to a prosperous path. According to researchers Ingrid Holmes and Sam Maule, the finance plan should focus on investment practices supporting infrastructure, solutions to environmental and social dilemmas, and greater climate risk disclosure. This framing could be the EU’s salvation. getAbstract recommends Holmes and Maule’s perceptive report – written for the policy maker yet accessible to the generalist – for its stirring call to action.

Take-Aways

  • The European Union’s recession continues to blemish its economic, social and environmental leadership.
  • The European Commission has initiated a reorientation of its Capital Markets Union and appointed a group of experts to draw up a “strategy on sustainable finance.”
  • The three components of a proposed sustainable finance plan are infrastructure spending, private investment in solving environmental, social and governance issues, and climate risk reporting upgrades.

About the Authors

Ingrid Holmes and Sam Maule work for E3G, a climate risk and energy policy think tank.

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