Contents1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Law, Finance and theEnvironment 1Megan Bowman and Laura MaiPART I FROM FLOWS TO SURGE: MOBILIZING FINANCE AT SCALE2 Governing finance and sustainability in Asia: actors,processes, and politics 13Felicia H M Liu3 Out of time: voluntarism, climate change, and finance 35Laura Mai4 A drop in the ocean? Multilateral finance forenvironmentally sound technology development andtransfer 49Stephen Minas5 Law and the International Financial Architecture: pathwaysand pivot points for achieving Paris objectives 69Megan Bowman and Tom TaylerPART II BUILDING A GROUNDSWELL: ENABLING MODALITIES6 Gender equality and climate finance: state policy andpractice 99Phoebe A. Bower7 From climate risk to net-zero and beyond: is ecologicallyrational regulation emerging in the finance sector? 125Anita Foerster8 Corporate climate change litigation as a new business risk 153Laura Knöpfel9 Reimagining corporate purpose for a safe and just world 169Beate Sjåfjell and Jukka MähönenPART III ChASING ThE RAPIDS: TURBULENT ACTIONS ANDEXPERIMENTS10 Placing zakat in African tax policy: a pathway to sustainablefinance 191Lyla Latif11 Financing Africa's just transition with reparationsdistributed through the African Continental Free Trade AreaAgreement 209Hannah Getachew12 Damming the flow from fiction to praxis: coining a carboncurrency 231Jose Raisey-Skeats, Bronwen Morgan and Naga Aditya Koneru13 Tapping into public procurement to fund a transition to acircular construction economy in Europe: opportunities andchallenges 251Feja Lesniewska.