The Financial Ecosystem The Role of Finance in Achieving Sustainability

Synopsis

Long term asset owners and managers, while seeking high risk-adjusted returns and efficiently allocating scarce financial capital to the highest value economic activities, have the essential and formidable role of ensuring the sustainability of return. But generally accepted financial accounting methods are ill-equipped to provide clear signals of the risks and opportunities created by scarce natural and human capital. Hence many investment managers in global financial markets, while performing due diligence on portfolio companies, examine metrics of non-financial performance, especially environmental, social and governance (ESG) indicators. Broken into three sections, this book outlines the rationale for and methods used in six areas where financial acumen has been harnessed to the goal of combining monetary return with long run sustainability. The first section offers an introduction to the role of finance in achieving sustainability, and includes an overview of the six areas—sustainable investing, impact investing, decentralized finance, conservation finance, and cleantech finance. The methods section of the book illustrates analytical tools and specialized data sources essential to those interested in increasing the level of social responsibility embedded in economic activity. The applications section describes and differentiates each of the six areas and their roles in advancing specific measures of sustainability.

Book details

Edition:

1st ed. 2019

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance

Author:

Anne Simpson, Satyajit Bose, Guo Dong

ISBN:

9783030056247

Related ISBNs:

9783030056230

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Pages:

N/A

Reading age:

Not specified

Includes images:

Yes

Date of addition:

2022-12-01

Usage restrictions:

Copyright

Copyright date:

2019

Copyright by:

The Editor 

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Categories:

Business and Finance, Nonfiction