Sustainability, Technology, and Finance

Rethinking How Markets Integrate ESG
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-20054-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

This book explores the swiftly emerging nexus between sustainability, finance, and technology.

Leading practitioners and academic thought leaders reflect on the ways in which technology and digitalization shape how sustainable finance professionals address environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. Together, the contributors identify three spheres in which technology shapes how investors make sense of such issues:

- ESG and technology: finance professionals need to know about how technological innovations, such as chemical recycling for plastics, in the real economy shape firms’ ESG performance;

- ESG through technology: technological developments, such as AI and blockchain, can enable finance professionals to offer more fine-grained ESG analyses; and

- ESG as technology: the ESG agenda itself is influenced by technological developments that are not well understood by practitioners (e.g., data mining for Bitcoin creating significant emissions).

Using practically relevant examples and recent insights from people working in the field, the book explores the linkages between sustainability, technology, and finance in different contexts and shows how practitioners can accelerate needed change processes.

This book primarily addresses practitioners in companies and investment firms as well as students enrolled in executive education and MBA programs.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bril, Herman

Kell, Georg

Rasche, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Makroökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Anlagen & Wertpapiere
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensfinanzen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Sustainable Finance and Technology: Making the Connection; Part I: ESG and Technology 2. History of Technology and Its Future in the Context of Human Development; 3. ESG—A Transformational Journey for Asset Management, Industries, Technology, and Society; 4. How Can Corporate Leverage Tech and Sustainability through Collaboration? Digital with Purpose—Current Practices and Trends; 5. Decarbonization as a Chance; 6. Ocean Technology as a Growing Space in Which to Reimagine Business: The Role of Start-Ups; Part II: ESG as and through Technology 7. Mitigating the Risks and Nurturing the Opportunities: Data and Tech Vital in Tackling Companies' ESG Challenges; 8. Resilience as an Analytical Filter for ESG Data; 9. Technology-Supported Investment Management; 10. Finance, Sustainability, and Technology: Co-Evolution in Asset Owners’ Context; 11. A Digital Twin for Finance: Artificial Intelligence Supporting the Implementation of Environmental, Social, and Governance Targets; 12. Efficiently Allocating Capital to Transition to a Sustainable Economy; 13. Assessing ESG from a Position of Wealth; 14. The Rise of ESG Data: A Tectonic Transparency Shift; 15. ESGT—Exponential Technology Requires Exponential Responsibility; 16. Mastering Sustainability Requires Technology, Finance, and the Powers of Homo Deus

Über Autor(innen)

Herman Bril is Managing Director & Head of Responsible Investment at PSP Investments. He has 30 years of experience in international financial institutions across investment management, derivatives trading, treasury, and development finance.

Georg Kell is Chairman of Arabesque, a technology company that uses AI and big data to assess sustainability performance, and Chairman of the Volkswagen Sustainability Council. Georg founded the UN Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. He also oversaw the launch of the PRI, PRME, and SSE.

Andreas Rasche is Professor of Business in Society at the Centre for Sustainability at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and Associate Dean for the CBS Full-Time MBA program. He has authored more than 60 academic articles in top international journals and published various cases on topics related to ESG and corporate sustainability.