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Climate Change Adaptation, Governance and New Issues of Value Measuring the Impact of ESG Scores on CoE and Firm Performance
This book investigates sustainability, CSR, climate change adaptation, the relevance of ESG scores and their impact on firm value and growth. The...
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Automotive and Tire Sector: Sustainability as the New “Value” for Shareholders
This chapter analyses the impact of ESG scores on firms’ profitability in the automotive sector between 2002 and 2016 for a novel dataset of European...
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Self-Consciousness and Awareness as Adaptation Enablers
The idea of a free and not finite environment is fundamentally incorrect. Firms failing to implement effective adaptation strategies would consume...
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Climate Change Challenges and the Policymakers Initial Response
Our concept of the planet, its resources and ESG issues is often conflictual. Sometimes, there is no consensus on the magnitude of climate...
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Introduction
A large growing literature is nowadays investigating the main drivers of investors decisions and corporate strategies. In order to appreciate what is...
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The Sustainability Challenge for Asian Emerging Markets: Some Empirical Evidences
The intense protests against economic globalization and accusations pointed towards companies’ actions of the twentieth century have highlighted the...
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Green Bonds, Loans, Credit Lines, and Microfinance Financing Nature-Based Solutions
Various debt financing tools are available to finance the scaling up and mainstreaming of nature-based solutions (NBS), including green bonds and...
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Voluntary Carbon Offsets Financing Nature-Based Solutions
Nature-based solutions (NBS) could mitigate significant carbon emissions needed to achieve the Paris climate goals. While public policies are...
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Financing Nature-Based Solutions
It is estimated that investments in nature-based solutions (NBS) need to increase four-fold by 2050 if the world is to meet various climate change,...
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Extended Case Studies of Financing Nature-Based Solutions
Nature-based solutions (NBS) can be implemented to address specific or multiple societal challenges in various ways. This chapter provides a series...
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Financial Regulation for Sustainable Finance in the European Landscape
This chapter reviews and discusses the initiatives undertaken by the European Commission (EC) and the European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, ESMA and...
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Conclusions
The health emergency has reawakened and strengthened the attention of policymakers to sustainable development, reaffirming the urgency of economic...
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Introduction
The international community is increasingly recognising the need to combine economic development with environmental protection and achievement of...
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Future Perspectives on Sustainable Corporate Governance and Disclosures
In this chapter, we aim at exploring the forthcoming changes which will affect the way in which sustainability reporting and corporate governance...
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Financing Nature-Based Solutions Exploring Public, Private, and Blended Finance Models and Case Studies
This book presents new research on innovative financial instruments and approaches available to implement nature-based solutions (NBS) at various...
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Sustainable Growth in the European Framework and the Role of Finance
Finance has been increasingly acknowledged as key to sustainable development as it can efficiently and effectively channel resources towards...
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Debt-for-Nature Swaps Financing Nature-Based Solutions
With the world facing a climate crisis and rapid biodiversity loss, debt-restructuring could make around $20 billion available to invest in the...
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Biodiversity Offsets Financing Nature-Based Solutions
Biodiversity offsets are actions that seek to counterbalance the unavoidable impacts of development activities, whether public or private sector-led,...
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Corporate Green Bond: Issuance and Equity Market Reaction
This chapter focuses on corporate green bond, an innovative financial instrument for climate and environmental financing. An empirical analysis has...
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Environmental, Social, and Governance Issues: An Empirical Literature Review Around the World
This chapter examines the different strands of literature about ESG factors. First studies on the relationship between financial performances and ESG...