The Climate Financialization Trap: Claiming for Public Action

Federica Viganò ()
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Federica Viganò: Faculty of Education, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, 39100 Bolzano, Italy

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 6, 1-7

Abstract: This opinion paper aims to offer a critical assessment on the prevalence of solutions to the climate change problem that rely on climate finance. The paper briefly recalls the key milestones in the evolution of climate finance and highlights what is referred to as a “climate finance trap,” offering some crucial insights that might help remedy potential systemic distortions and that vehemently demand public action in the domain of climate policy.

Keywords: climate change; financialization; green finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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