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Green Finance is heralded in theory and practice as the new panacea
- the ideal way to support the green transition of businesses into
more sustainable, environmentally responsible forms, by means of
incentivized financial investments. This handbook offers the most
authoritative overview of Green Finance to date, presenting the
state of the art, and including innovative directions from leading
academics and practitioners. It focuses on Green Finance in a
comprehensive way, discussing its characteristics, underlying
principles and mechanisms. The book carefully illuminates the
issues surrounding Green Finance and delineate its boundaries,
mapping out and displaying the disparate voices, traditions and
professional communities engaged in green and sustainable finance
activities. Specifically, it examines the Environmental in the
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) measurements, while also
discussing the interplay between E, S and G. It develops a range of
analytic approaches to the subject, both appreciative and critical,
and synthesizes new theoretical constructs that make better sense
of hybrid financial relationships. Furthermore, the handbook
illustrates existing best practice and theory and examines the gaps
to derive the necessary future research questions. It highlights
the essential issues and debates and provides a robust research
agenda. As such, it helps to create an effective market for the
various green financing instruments through clarification and
standardization. This handbook will be the standard reference work
for a broad audience, encompassing scholars, researchers and
students, but also interested professionals, regulators and
policymakers, wishing to orient themselves in a rapidly developing
and increasingly topical field.
This book reviews the latest methods of sustainable investing and
financial profit making and describes how ESG (Environmental,
Social, Governance) analysis can identify future business
opportunities and manage risk to achieve abnormal returns.
Megatrends such as climate change, sustainable development and
digitalisation increase uncertainty and information asymmetry and
have an impact on the future returns on investments. From a profit
perspective, it is largely about how ESG factors affect the
long-term value added by companies and the valuation of companies
in the financial markets. Although sustainability provides an
opportunity for abnormal returns, this phenomenon must be
considered in a critical light. The book describes the risks and
limitations associated with the accountability and availability of
ESG data and tools. This book provides both academic findings and
practical models for assessing the sustainability of investees and
introduces practical tools and methods to make ESG analysis
practice. It focuses on the ESG analysis of equity investments and
fund investments in institutional investment organizations and
provides a handbook for all investment analysts who are involved
with investment decisions. Readers will benefit from understanding
the methods, opportunities and challenges that professionals use in
their ESG analysis with cases, interviews and practical tools for
both institutional and private investors.
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