The financial sector has a crucial role to play in delivering a sustainable future for the planet.
It is critical that the financial services industry allocates capital to the firms, investments, products and activities that will help build a greener future.
Green and Sustainable Finance
helps finance professionals manage sustainability risks, support their clients and customers and actively play a role in conserving and benefiting the environment.
This fully updated third edition is grounded in the principles of nature-based finance which recognize society's reliance on nature and seek to use the instruments of the financial services industry to conserve and benefit the environment. Reflecting the International Sustainability Standard Board's IFRS S1 and IFRS S2 and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures recommendations along with extensive coverage of wider regulatory and market developments, it features material on the rapid growth of sustainable lending and investment and the latest cross-sector alliances and initiatives.
Endorsed by the Chartered Banker Institute as the core text for their Certificate in Green and Sustainable Finance, this book is essential reading for finance professionals and students working to embed sustainability in business and finance.
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"The new edition of Green and Sustainable Finance spotlights the way biodiversity and social focus are now woven into effective green finance. It considers the host of new metrics, new measurement bodies, new financial products, and offers a nuanced lens on transition finance as well as on emerging risks. Green finance has matured in giant steps since the first edition of this book. Valuable then, this edition is compelling now." * Dame Susan Rice DBE * "Provides key contextual knowledge by clearly and concisely situating green and sustainable finance in reference to key sectors - from banking, insurance, bonds, equity funds, regulation et al - thus making this an essential read for all financial services practitioners and policy setters." * Omar Shaikh, Co-Founder, Global Ethical Finance Initiative * "The rapidly evolving nature of climate science, policies, regulations, reporting standards and initiatives make it difficult for professionals to keep up-to-date. This third edition is an invaluable compendium of information about green and sustainable finance. An essential book to bridge the skill gap in this space and help us to effectively respond to the climate crisis." * Elina Moscolin, Executive Vice President, Sustainability, Sage * "The revised Green & Sustainable Finance by Simon Thompson is an accessible and timely contribution to the literature. The text is case rich, international in approach, and contains many reflective exercises to enable and provoke discussion and reflection as to the major decisions confronting finance and financial institutions now and during the coming time of climate change." * John K. Ashton PhD, FCBI, SFHEA, Professor of Financial Regulation, University of York * "Simon Thompson has produced an outstanding and essential read for anyone in finance and banking who needs to better understand green and sustainable finance. The book helps the reader understand how to begin to align, embed, measure, and use green finance and grapple with making the green transition as individuals, firms, and communities. It is accessible, clear, well-constructed and addresses a myriad of complex issues while treating the reader with respect, without jargon. If you need to understand how to operationalise a firm's profitable pathway to net zero, you should buy this book and digest its lessons." * Stuart Mackintosh, Executive Director, G30, and author of 'Climate Crisis Economics' *
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Für Beruf und Forschung
Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 238 mm
Breite: 170 mm
Dicke: 37 mm
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978-1-3986-1968-5 (9781398619685)
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Simon Thompson is the Managing Director of the Global Capacity Building Coalition (GCBC), an alliance of UN agencies, multilateral development banks, professional bodies, educators and others accelerating and scaling sustainable finance capacity building for financial institutions and finance professionals. For 17 years, he was the Chief Executive of the Chartered Banker Institute, and Founding Chair of the UK Government's Sustainable Finance Education Charter. He is based in Edinburgh, UK.