Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Economic Management,Financial Innovation and Public Service (EMFIPS 2023)

Greenwashing in Sustainable Finance: Defining the Problem, Analysing the Drivers and Paths to a Solution

Authors
Chenqing Zhang1, *, Yaqiao Zhuang2
1School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, 999014, Ireland
2School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 15213, USA
*Corresponding author. Email: zhangc8@tcd.ie
Corresponding Author
Chenqing Zhang
Available Online 21 June 2024.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-441-9_4How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Greenwashing; Sustainable Finance; Information Disclosure; Financial Regulation
Abstract

As the concept of sustainability has gradually become an important part of mainstream values, sustainable finance and financial products of this category have been receiving more and more attention in financial markets worldwide. In the rapid development of sustainable finance today, many issues and controversies related to it have been increasingly concerned by academics and related practitioners, the most representative of which is the “greenwashing” issue. This paper discusses the definition of greenwashing through the perspective of legal studies, and further explores the causes of the problem, with a view to obtaining a unique solution path that is different from that of other disciplines.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Economic Management,Financial Innovation and Public Service (EMFIPS 2023)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
21 June 2024
ISBN
978-94-6463-441-9
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-441-9_4How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2024 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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