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Working Papers &...

Aligning Monetary Policy with the EU’s Climate Targets

Wojtek Kalinowski & Stanislas Jourdan

Addressing the current misalignment between ECBs policy interventions and European Union’s climate targets.

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Financial Regulation challenged by European Trade Policy

Trade agreements currently being negotiated or already approved introduce numerous restrictions over the right of states to regulate, especially in the...

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Political Transition

Deplanning the planned obsolescence (in French)

Thierry Libaert

One day or another, everyone might find himself confronted with concrete results of planned obsolescence: the inability to fix a broken computer, to...

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Political Transition

Carbon tax and climate finance (in French)

Emmanuel Combet & Jean-Charles Hourcade

The carbon tax is not popular in France. Due to an anti-fiscal reflex, it is critized as a measure which hits mostly the poorest population, a constraint...

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  Money & Sustainabilit Monetary Policy

  5 June 2019, by Wojtek Kalinowski & Nicolas Hercelin

  “We aren’t deaf and blind to the debate on climate” Coeuré tells French Parliament

  Questioned by French members of Parliament, the ECB’s board member said the ECB can help fighting climate change.

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  Financial and Banking Finance & Soutenabili

  4 April 2019

  The ECB has invested over € 111 billion in carbon-intensive sectors

  A policy note published today by Positive Money Europe and the Veblen Institute for Economic Reforms presents an environmental assessment of corporate bond purchases by the European Central Bank (ECB) as part of its Quantitative Easing program.

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  Financial crises Finance & Soutenabili Financial and Banking

  14 June 2018, by Wojtek Kalinowski

  Reimagine the Financial System

  Veblen Institute joins the European "Change Finance" Coalition.