Climate Finance

Book chapter (2023)

Authors

Sarah E. Knuth Durham University
Zac Taylor Urban Development Management - Architecture and the Built Environment
Research Group
Urban Development Management (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
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Published Date

2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Department

Management in the Built Environment

Research Group

Urban Development Management

Abstract

How will climate change and its governance redraw maps of financial flows across the world, and with what implications for whom? Can the resources needed for decarbonization and adaptation to already‐arriving climate impacts be mustered at the scale and rate needed to mitigate socioecological harms and planetary destabilizations? Can they be deployed in a way that does not exacerbate pre‐existing risks and injustices, themselves often bound up in legacies of financialized extraction? Such questions, empirical and normatively inflected, are drawing growing attention from geographers. Increasingly, this questioning is coalescing around an influential, though still definitionally unsettled term and concept: climate finance.