Analysis exposes challenges in recognizing the true actions of financial institutions regarding climate finance, indicating a need for better methods.
The post-2025 conjuncture poses numerous challenges for understanding the dynamic “positions” of climate finance that Bryant and Webber identify. I focus on the difficulty of distinguishing between financial institutions’ public performances and actual practices, particularly as anti-ESG political pressures incentivize strategic distance between the two. I argue for the importance of expanding our methodological toolkit and centering different literal and figurative locations of climate finance.
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