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The Financial Ecosystem
The Role of Finance in Achieving Sustainability
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eBook - ePub
The Financial Ecosystem
The Role of Finance in Achieving Sustainability
About this book
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 areasâsustainable 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.Frequently asked questions
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. The Role of Finance in Achieving Sustainability
- 2. The Financial Ecosystem
- 3. Governing the Corporation
- 4. Accounting for Sustainability: Frameworks for the Aggregation of Financial and Non-financial Metrics
- 5. Signals of Scarcity and Financial Performance
- 6. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Discounting
- 7. The Monetization of Natural Capital in Corporate Investment
- 8. Human Capital and the Returns to Stakeholder Relations
- 9. Capital Structure and Social Capital: Diverse Forms of Investment
- 10. Sustainable Investing and Asset Allocation at Global Scale
- 11. Impact Investing
- 12. Decentralized Finance
- 13. Conservation Finance and Payment for Ecosystem Services
- 14. Financing Clean Technology Innovation and the Transition to Renewable Energy
- 15. The Cooperative Movement and Social Enterprise
- 16. Toward the Common Wealth and the Common Weal
- Back Matter