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Reference Work Entry In depth
Financial Sector Sustainability Regulations and Guidelines
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Ethical and Financial Aspects of Divesting
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AI for Sustainable Finance: Governance Mechanisms for Institutional and Societal Approaches
Artificial intelligence (AI) for sustainable finance has been increasingly employed over the past several years to address the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Two major approaches have emerged: instituti...
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Sustainable Finance: Banks, Sustainability, and Corporate Financial Performance
After a short overview about the history of sustainable banking, the chapter discusses the business case of sustainability and the sustainability case of business in the banking sector. Based on this distincti...
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ESG Issues as Strategic Components of Long-term Success of Financial Institutions: Are There Differences in Financial Performance and Firm Value?
This section discusses ESG issues as strategic success factors in the financial industry. After a historical overview, different ESG-related products and services and their principles will be discussed. We dem...
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Urban infrastructure finance and its relationship to land markets, land development, and sustainability: a case study of the city of Islamabad, Pakistan
This study addresses the connection between financialization of real-estate, individual investment objectives, and urban sustainability. It uses a survey approach to explore the relationship between the financ...
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Open AccessImpact investments: a call for (re)orientation
Practitioners and academics have been using different terms to describe investments in the sustainability context. The latest inflationary term is impact investments—investments that focus on real-world change...
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Sustainability Management—A Conceptual Trade-Off
The field of sustainability is facing challenges of conceptual openness, functional complexity, and operational ambiguity. A lack of consensus on these fronts is dividing intellect and resource bases, and it i...
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Water Risks, Conflicts, and Sustainable Water Investments: A Case Study of Ontario, Canada
Ensuring sufficient quantity and quality of water resources is a necessary requisite for social well-being, economic prosperity, and environmental integrity. Water resources are continuously being threatened d...
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Stranded Assets and the Transition to Low-Carbon Economy
In the context of the low-carbon transition, stranded assets can be defined as assets that have suffered unanticipated or premature write-downs, devaluations or conversions to liabilities. These assets may ref...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Ethical and Financial Aspects of Divesting
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The Development of Green Finance by Sector
This chapter analyzes the development of green finance by sector. To this extent, it first examines the role of multilateral development banks in launching and fostering green finance and sustainable finance. ...
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Open AccessFinancing micro-entrepreneurs for poverty alleviation: a performance analysis of microfinance services offered by BRAC, ASA, and Proshika from Bangladesh
Microfinance services have emerged as an effective tool for financing micro-entrepreneurs to alleviate poverty. Since the 1970s, development theorists have considered non-governmental microfinance institutions...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Financial Sector Sustainability Regulations and Guidelines
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Financial Sector Sustainability Regulations and Voluntary Codes of Conduct: Do They Help to Create a More Sustainable Financial System?
This contribution discusses the role of voluntary codes of conduct and sustainability in hel** to create a more sustainable financial system. The analyzed voluntary codes of conducts are UNEPFI, , the ...
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Finance and Sustainability
The connection between the financial industry and sustainable development is indirect. The industry channels financial capital into different industries and therefore has an indirect effect on sustainable develop...
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CSR Reporting and Its Implication for Socially Responsible Investment in China
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting has grown significantly in China during the past decade. This chapter assesses the status of Chinese CSR reporting and its main drivers as well as firms’ subsequ...
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Trade and Finance as Cross-Cutting Issues in the Global Phosphate and Fertilizer Market
This chapter provides an overview of trade and finance issues in the global phosphate and fertilizer market. First, we analyze global trade dynamics affecting fertilizers and their raw materials. Secondly, we ...
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The Financial Performance of RI Funds After 2000
More and more investors integrate social and environmental criteria into their investment decisions (Kasemir et al. 2001). Thus the number of investment funds in the socially responsible investment (SRI) secto...
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Cholesteryl ester transfer protein and its inhibition
Cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) is a plasma glycoprotein that facilitates the transfer of cholesteryl esters from the atheroprotective high density lipoprotein (HDL) to the proatherogenic low density...
