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Central Banks in Europe: On the Road to more Sustainability

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The European Central Bank as a Sustainability Role Model

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Abstract

The different central banks follow their own different paths to sustainability. The article asks, what types of sustainability they already practice. It describes progressive strategies, looks at the learning processes and analyses the shortcomings. The Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) tries to bring all these experiences together and helps the central banks and supervisors contribute to true climate protection and adaptation. But overall, the ecological and social effects of central banks are still underexposed.

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  3. Weltethos-Institut at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Bernd Villhauer

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Bergius, S. (2021). Central Banks in Europe: On the Road to more Sustainability. In: Bolsinger, H., Hoffmann, J., Villhauer, B. (eds) The European Central Bank as a Sustainability Role Model. Sustainable Finance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55450-7_6

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