PART I: GENERAL ASPECTS.- Chapter 1: Sustainable Finance in Europe: Setting the Scene; Danny Busch, Guido Ferrarini & Seraina Grünewald.- Chapter 2 : The European Commission's Sustainable Finance Action Plan and Other International Initiatives; Danny Busch, Guido Ferrarini & Arthur van den Hurk.- Chapter 3: Sustainable Digital Finance and the pursuit of Environmental Sustainability; Marco Dell'Erba.- PART II: SUSTAINABLE FINANCE AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.- Chapter 4: Redefining Corporate Purpose: Sustainability as a Game Changer; Guido Ferrarini.- Chapter 5: Sustainable Corporate Governance: The Role of the Law; Alessio M. Pacces.- Chapter 6: Integrating sustainability in EU Corporate Governance Codes; Michele Siri & Shanshan Zhu.- PART III: SUSTAINABLE FINANCE AND SYSTEMIC RISK.- Chapter 7: Climate change as a systemic risk in finance - are macroprudential authorities up to the task?; Seraina Grünewald.- Chapter 8: Climate change as a threat to financial stability: can solutions to this problem accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy? A critical review of policy and market-based approaches; Sara Lovisolo.- Chapter 9: Which role for the prudential supervision of banks in Sustainable Finance?; Antonio Luca Riso.- PART IV: SUSTAINABLE FINANCE AND FINANCIAL MARKETS.- Chapter 10: Sustainable Finance: an overview of ESG in the Financial Markets; Marieke Driessen.- Chapter 11: The Taxonomy Regulation: more important than just as an element of the Capital Markets Union; Christos V. Gortsos.- Chapter 12: Sustainability Disclosure in the EU Financial Sector; Danny Busch.- Chapter 13: Integrating sustainable finance into the MiFID II and IDD investor protection frameworks; Veerle Colaert.- Chapter 14: Emission allowances as financial instruments; Filippo Annunziata.