This article summarizes recent developments in global financial markets, explores how they connect to ecosystems and ecological change in both direct and indirect ways, and elaborates on crucial research gaps.
Changes in financial markets are creating new global connections that make financial markets, actors, and instruments important aspects of global environmental change. The role of financial actors is shifting due to financial innovations, increased sustainability ambitions from large financial actors, and changes in international commodity markets. Despite this, the way financial markets and actors affect ecosystem change in different parts of the world has seldom been elaborated in the literature.
Read the article (external link to journal).
Read a blog post based on the article (external link).
Design and development by Soapbox.