Towards New Approaches of Understanding the Greening of Capital Markets

Abstract This chapter combines different approaches to capture the discursive, financial(ized), and political-economic aspects of efforts green capital markets. To understand stalling uptake bonds, it introduces Cultural Political Economy (CPE), financialization, Transition Studies as useful foreground discursive elements in nascent market promotion, repositioning financial sector a main driver low-carbon transitions under so-called Wall Street Consensus, political economic bottlenecks fossil-based economy like South Africa faces.