Sustainable Finances and the Law

Rute Saraiva is Assistant Professor at University of Lisbon, Law School. Rute is member of the Centre for Research on European, Economic, Financial and Tax Law (CIDEEFF).Paulo Alves Pardal is Assistant Professor at University of Lisbon, Law School. Paulo is member of CIDEEFF – Research Center for European, Economic, Financial and Tax Law.

• Part I - Financial sector,  regulation, supervision and sustainability: Rute Saraiva, ESG factors in pensions funds regulations: Why, how far have they gone, and what is the potential for improvement?.- Luciane Moessa, Benchmarking of national ESG banking regulations: State of art and remaining challenges.- Sofia Santos, The importance of practicality: The role of a transition green asset ratio for banks.- Miguel Morgado, EIB Group Climate Bank Roadmap 2021-2025.- Part II – Markets and Climate change: Ruthie Lazenby, Evaluating additionality analyses: California Cap and Trade and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.- Tatiana Falcão, Paying the piper: On the legal qualification of carbon prices.- Miguel Patrício, The Economics of adaptation to climate change and its main challenges.- Part III – Green public finance, budgeting and procurement: Paulo Alves Pardal, When climate change knockson the finance minister's door.- Carlos Marinheiro, Amílcar do Rosário e Sousa  and Ana Pinheiro, The climate dimension of fiscal policy sustainability: best practices in Green Budgeting and lessons for Portugal.- Pedro Infante, Government procurement and sustainable development in the WTO.- Part IV - Green taxes: Janet Milne, Environmental taxation and ESG: Silent Partners.- María Amparo Grau Ruiz, International fiscal cooperation to better integrate public and private efforts on sustainability: the case of carbon offset credits.- Karolina Tetlak, The Use of windfall taxes on the energy sector to support the green transition in the EU.- Filipe de Vasconcelos Fernandes, The European "fit for 55" package and the Portuguese tax benefits system – Prospective analysis and reform proposals.- André Alfar Rodrigues, "Fit for 55" – The EU plan for a green transition.- Solange Morais Juvandes, Jurisdictional assessment of environmentaltaxation.