Reassembling ‘green’ finance scholarship

Kob, Julius, Taeger, Matthias ORCID: 0000-0001-9653-686X and Dittrich, Katharina (2025) Reassembling ‘green’ finance scholarship. Finance and Society. ISSN 2059-5999

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Abstract

The financial industry has become increasingly entangled with environmental matters of concern, constituting the phenomenon of ‘green’ finance. In this Forum, we approach green finance as financial climate governance to highlight its claim on finance’s role as legitimate and capable steward of the planet’s climate. This claim to govern and its promise to achieve desirable environmental conditions have made green finance a crucial object of investigation. However, we observe a growing fragmentation of green finance research along various fault lines, such as levels of analysis, normative positions, or academic structures. Calling for reassembling green finance scholarship, we posit a need for more integrative approaches, motivating this Forum’s central question: what integrative moves across socioeconomic research can enhance our understanding and judgement of green finance? The Forum gathers three contributions focused on: (1) integrating macro- and micro-approaches in green finance studies; (2) examining the politics of green finance as knowledge contestations; and (3) confronting stasis in green finance by exploring researchers’ agencies, emotions, and normativities. By reassembling green finance scholarship through integrative moves, we suggest marking green finance as a shared concern and fostering collective perspectives to bring clarity and constructive critique to what has become a dominant pursuit in facing the socioecological crisis.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© The Author(s), 2025
Divisions:	Grantham Research Institute
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HG Finance Q Science > QC Physics
Date Deposited:	19 Nov 2025 09:39
Last Modified:	20 Nov 2025 15:18
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/130255

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