Research Agenda for Law, Finance and the Environment

Edited by Megan Bowman, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, UK and Laura Mai, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

• Contents1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Law, Finance and theEnvironment 1Megan Bowman and Laura MaiPART I FROM FLOWS TO SURGE: MOBILIZING FINANCE AT SCALE2 Governing finance and sustainability in Asia: actors,processes, and politics 13Felicia H M Liu3 Out of time: voluntarism, climate change, and finance 35Laura Mai4 A drop in the ocean? Multilateral finance forenvironmentally sound technology development andtransfer 49Stephen Minas5 Law and the International Financial Architecture: pathwaysand pivot points for achieving Paris objectives 69Megan Bowman and Tom TaylerPART II BUILDING A GROUNDSWELL: ENABLING MODALITIES6 Gender equality and climate finance: state policy andpractice 99Phoebe A. Bower7 From climate risk to net-zero and beyond: is ecologicallyrational regulation emerging in the finance sector? 125Anita Foerster8 Corporate climate change litigation as a new business risk 153Laura Knöpfel9 Reimagining corporate purpose for a safe and just world 169Beate Sjåfjell and Jukka MähönenPART III ChASING ThE RAPIDS: TURBULENT ACTIONS ANDEXPERIMENTS10 Placing zakat in African tax policy: a pathway to sustainablefinance 191Lyla Latif11 Financing Africa’s just transition with reparationsdistributed through the African Continental Free Trade AreaAgreement 209Hannah Getachew12 Damming the flow from fiction to praxis: coining a carboncurrency 231Jose Raisey-Skeats, Bronwen Morgan and Naga Aditya Koneru13 Tapping into public procurement to fund a transition to acircular construction economy in Europe: opportunities andchallenges 251Feja Lesniewska

‘Finance, law and environmental protection interact in complex and evolving ways, and differently across the world. This book uses diverse viewpoints to unpack these relationships. It provides scholars with insights into research approaches that could help them point to possible improvements, large and small, and offers practitioners a wealth of information to help them work with the existing reality.’