The article provides an overview of the most important current EU initiatives contributing to sustainable finance. After an introduction on how the concept of sustainability entered the domain of European policy, the definition of sustainable finance from the EU perspective is discussed, as well...

The paper mainly focuses on the link between carbon emission and sources of economic development such as investment, saving, income distribution and labor market fluctuations. By employing the Structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) approach, the paper investigates that if there is a...

The Tokyo emissions trading scheme (ETS) is the first regional ETS in Japan where a national ETS has not been introduced. In this study, we estimate the policy impacts of the Tokyo ETS on energy usage and economic activities in the scheme’s first phase (2010-2014) and the first four years of...