Green and sustainable finance : principles and practice in banking, investment and insurance / Simon Thompson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table Of Contents -- Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Sir Roger Gifford: An appreciation -- Introduction -- 1 Dimensions of green and sustainable finance -- Introduction -- Sustainable finance -- Green finance -- The dimensions of green and sustainable finance -- Challenges for green and sustainable finance -- Opportunities for green and sustainable finance -- The UN Sustainable Development Goals -- Key concepts -- Review -- Notes -- 2 Our changing world: The Triple Planetary Crisis -- Introduction -- Our changing planet -- The climate system and anthropogenic climate change -- Climate change, biodiversity loss and the finance sector -- Key concepts -- Review -- Notes -- 3 Building a sustainable financial system: International, national and finance sector responses -- Introduction -- Global policy responses to the Triple Planetary Crisis -- Finance sector initiatives to support the growth of green and sustainable finance -- Key concepts -- Review -- Notes -- 4 Impact analysis: Measuring and reporting environmental and social impacts -- Introduction -- Monitoring, measuring and reporting: Impacts and outcomes -- Monitoring the alignment of financial activities with the Paris Agreement -- The data challenge -- Key concepts -- Review -- Notes -- 5 Risk management -- Introduction -- Introduction to climate, environmental and social sustainability risks -- Climate, environmental and sustainability risks for financial institutions -- Climate, environmental and sustainability risk management in practice -- The evolving regulatory response to climate, environmental and social sustainability risks -- Pricing climate and environmental risks -- Key concepts -- Review -- Notes -- 6 Responsible retail, commercial and corporate banking -- Introduction -- The role of banking in the transition to a sustainable, low-carbon world -- UN Principles for Responsible Banking and the Net-Zero Banking Alliance -- Retail banking products and services -- Corporate and investment banking products and services -- Key concepts -- Review -- Notes -- 7 Green and sustainable bonds -- Introduction -- Introduction to debt capital -- Green bonds -- Other types of green and sustainable bonds -- Green and sustainable bond listings, indices and funds -- Securitization -- Key concepts -- Review -- Notes -- 8 Central and development banks -- Introduction -- The role of central banks -- The role of development banks -- Key concepts -- Review -- Notes -- 9 Responsible and sustainable investment -- Introduction -- Introduction to investment -- Introduction to responsible and sustainable investment -- Responsible and sustainable investment products and services -- Challenges to the continued growth of responsible and sustainable investment -- Key concepts -- Review -- Notes -- 10 Insurance: Impact underwriting -- Introduction -- The role of insurance in the financial system -- The insurance sector and climate-related risks -- UN Principles for Sustainable Insurance and the Sustainable Insurance Forum -- Promoting sustainability through insurance: Impact underwriting -- Climate (climate risk) insurance -- Key concepts -- Review -- Notes -- 11 Green and sustainable digital finance -- Introduction -- Introduction to digital finance -- Applying digital finance tools and techniques in green and sustainable finance -- Policy and sector initiatives to support digital finance in green and sustainable finance -- Costs and challenges of digital finance -- Key concepts -- Review -- Notes -- 12 The future of green and sustainable finance -- Introduction -- Progress in aligning finance with sustainability -- Challenges to the growth and mainstreaming of green and sustainable finance -- Embedding the principles and practice of green and sustainable finance into organizational strategy and culture -- Your role and future as a green and sustainable finance professional -- Personal reflection -- Key concepts -- Review -- Notes -- Index

The finance sector has a crucial role to play in delivering a sustainable future for the planet. Finance plays a key role in addressing the Triple Planetary Crisis of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss, and it is vital that the finance sector rapidly accelerates the mobilization of capital to support a successful and just global transition to net zero. This requires enhancing both the capabilities of financial institutions and developing the knowledge and skills of finance professionals to the point where every professional financial decision takes account of climate change and sustainability. Green and Sustainable Finance is a comprehensive guide to the principles and practice finance professionals at all levels should adopt to manage sustainability risks, engage and support their clients and customers, and take advantage of the opportunities presented by the transition of sectors and firms from high carbon to low or zero carbon, nature positive models. Sustainable growth and development resilience is good for finance and good for society. This fully updated third edition incorporates a wider perspective than previous editions, with nature-based impacts, risks, dependencies and opportunities considered alongside climate change - a broader focus that mirrors policy, regulatory and market developments in recent years. It introduces the work of the new new International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) along with extensive coverage of wider regulatory and market developments. There is also additional content on adaptation finance; transition finance and transition planning. Endorsed by the Chartered Banker Institute as the core text for the global benchmark Certificate in Green and Sustainable Finance, this book is essential reading for finance professionals, university students and individuals working to embed sustainability in business, finance, policy and regulation

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