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- Frames the problem of climate change in a new light and identifies the necessary elements of an effective climate mitigation strategy
- Addresses the challenge of how best to wed a profit-driven capitalist system to societally beneficial goals of sustainability
- Presents the constitutive elements of an ecologically oriented type of capitalism centered on the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nation’s 2030 Agenda
- Encourages the construction of an ecologically oriented type of capitalism, and introduces a new type of money—carbon money—to incentivize the transition to a low-carbon economy
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Book Title: Eco-Capitalism
Book Subtitle: Carbon Money, Climate Finance, and Sustainable Development
Authors: Robert Guttmann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92357-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92356-7Published: 06 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06415-0Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92357-4Published: 20 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 321
Topics: Finance, general, Environmental Economics, Climate Change Management and Policy, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Climate Change