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Finance in nature and the nature of finance: Understanding the limits and possibilities of transition finance in the Asia Pacific
The growing significance of finance in contemporary society is evident in its expanded role in the transformation of the natural realm. In the context of pressing environmental challenges -- from climate change to biodiversity loss--the mobilization of green finance has increasingly been positioned as a solution to avert ecological breakdown. In this presentation, I situate my Hakubi project on financing the low-carbon transition in existing research, highlighting the shortcomings of current literature and dominant theoretical frameworks at grasping finance-transition dynamics in the Asia Pacific, most pronounced in the case of non-traditional market economies. Differing government-finance-industry configurations, risk/return criteria, and geopolitical considerations mediate the direction of green investments in distinctive and important ways. Attention to this difference, I argue, could lead to a more nuanced understanding of the possibilities and challenges of reconciling finance with environmental objectives and its implications for transition in the world’s most carbon intensive region.