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“Banks are exposed to financial and reputation risks when lending to polluting borrowers,” says Emma Wang, introducing her recent paper Public environmental enforcement and private lender monitoring: Evidence from environmental covenants. Joint efforts between public and private sectors to reduce corporate pollution are active, but results remain unclear. The authors study the importance of sustainable finance in achieving green environment goals, and whether and how public environmental enforcement affects private lenders’ monitoring efforts and their effectiveness.

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