'Climate Change and Reflexive Law: The EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan' by Boudewijn de Bruin
14 january 2025, 18:00 CET
Climate Change and Reflexive Law: The EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan
by
Boudewijn de Bruin
14 January 2025, 18:00 CET
This talk examines the instruments suggested by the key policy document driving sustainable finance in the European Union, the Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth. It uses a reflexive law approach coupled with insights from epistemology. It discusses the Action Plan and the concept of reflexive law (which focuses on such epistemic instruments as disclosure, reporting, and labelling) and a number of challenges the plan faces (about, e.g., investor ignorance, long-termism, scenario analysis, accounting standards). It then introduces an alternative to reflexive law (called “epistemic law”), and argues that disclosure, reporting, and labelling improve by taking into account insights from epistemology and social science concerning the form and content of information. The talk’s recommendation is, in a slogan, to provide different information, and to provide information differently.
A debate follows the interview.
In conversation: Exploring the Philosophy of Money and Finance
Interviews with contributing authors of The Philosophy of Money and Finance (OUP, 2024)
In conversation is organized by Phinance, the Philosophy & Finance Network
18:00 Boudewijn de Bruin (University of Groningen) Climate Change and Reflexive Law: The EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan
Interviewer: Lisa Warenski (CUNY Graduate Center and University of Connecticut)
chair: Emiliano Ippoliti (Sapienza University of Rome)
organization: Emiliano Ippoliti (Sapienza); Lisa Warenski (CUNY Graduate Center and University of Connecticut); Joakim Sandberg (University of Gothenburg)
‘In Conversation: Exploring the Philosophy of Money and Finance’ is a series of meetings that delve into the relationship between philosophy, money, and finance. Each interview is followed by a live debate, encouraging active audience participation. The sessions (interview plus debate) are 30 minutes long.