Green recovery: LSE and SOAS publish toolbox to steer central banks' coronavirus crisis response

Briefing warns central banks' activities in the wake of coronavirus risk slowing transition to a net zero economy, highlighting how just five of 170 central banking and supervisory crisis response policy instruments and adjustments 'explicitly' take sustainability considerations into account
There is "limited evidence" central banks are taking sustainability and climate change goals into account in their response to Covid-19, despite their steering role in shaping the economic recovery to...
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