Beating around the (green) bush? The Eurosystem in face of the climate catastrophe with ­Clément Fontan

Seminar of the key theme 'The Transformation of Capitalism'

Sciences Po, Room Salle du Conseil
13 rue de l'Université, 75007, Paris and via Zoom*, Compulsory Registration 

This talk argues that central banks find themselves between a rock and a hard place when it comes to green central banking. Either they endorse the project, exposing them to the charge that they lack the input legitimacy to do so, or they eschew taking into account climate concerns, thus undermining their output legitimacy. Our discourse analysis of central bankers’s speeches shows that disagreements among officials from the same institution regarding green central banking are grounded on issues outside their core expertise. Furthermore, neither the conservative nor the progressive central bankers defend positions that have the potential to overcome the legitimacy dilemma we formulate.

Speaker

He is also co-director of the journal Politique Européenne and co-convener of the permanent research group «Regulation, markets, capitalisms» of the French Political Sciences Association. He has published extensively on central banking and EU economic governance and his new research projects focus on recent EU regulatory efforts to green the economy.

Discussant 

Matthias Thiemann, Sciences Po, CEE 

Cyril Benoît, Sciences Po, CEE, CNRS

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