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Oxford Principles of Sustainable Finance 2019 Edition by Dirk Schoenmaker, Willem Schramade
Finance is widely seen as an obstacle to a better world. Principles of Sustainable Finance explains how the financial sector can be mobilized to counter this. Using finance as a means to achieve social goals we can divert the planet and its economy from its current path to a world that is sustainable for all. Written for undergraduate, graduate, and executive students of finance, economics, business, and sustainability, this textbook combines theory, empirical data, and policy to explain the sustainability challenges for corporate investment. It shows how finance can steer funding to certain companies and projects without sacrificing return and thus speed up the transition to a sustainable economy. It analyses the Sustainable Development Goals as a strategy for a better world and provides evidencethat environmental, social, and governance factors matter, explaining in detail how to incorporate these factors in the corporate and financial sectors.Tailored for students, Principles of Sustainable Finance starts each chapter with an overview and learning objectives to support study. It includes suggestions for further reading, lists and definitions of key concepts, and extensive uses of figures, boxes, and tables to enhance educational goals and clarify concepts.Principles of Sustainable Finance is also supported by an online resource that includes teaching materials and cases.
Table of Contents :- Part I: What is Sustainability and Why Does it Matter?1: Sustainability and the Transition ChallengePart II: Sustainability's Challenges to corporates2: Externalities - Internalisation3: Governance and Behaviour4: Coalitions for Sustainable Finance5: Strategy and Intangibles - Changing Business Models6: Integrated Reporting - Metrics and DataPart III: Financing Sustainability7: Investing for Long-Term Value Creation8: Equity - Investing with an Ownership Stake9: Bonds - Investing without voting power10: Banking - New Forms of Lending11: Insurance - Managing Long-Term RiskPart IV: How To Get There?12: Transition Management and Integrated Thinking