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Green and Sustainable Finance

Principles and Practice in Banking, Investment and Insurance

Green and Sustainable Finance offers a comprehensive guide to green and sustainable principles and practice in banking, investment and insurance.

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EAN: 9781398619685

Edition: 3

Published: 03 Feb 2025

Format: 240 x 170

640 pages

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How can finance professionals help lead the transition to a net-zero economy?

Green and Sustainable Finance by Simon Thompson is the definitive guide for financial analysts, investment managers and banking professionals who want to integrate sustainability into every financial decision.
Fully updated for a new era of sustainability standards, this trusted resource equips professionals to manage ESG risks, align with new frameworks and unlock investment opportunities aligned with climate and sustainability goals. It is also the core text for the Chartered Banker Institute's global benchmark Certificate in Green and Sustainable Finance.

You'll learn how to:

- Implement ISSB and TNFD requirementsin financial reporting
- Identify risks and opportunities in climate and sustainable finance
- Support clients with transition planning and adaptation finance
- Align portfolios to sustainability goals and regulatory change
- Embed climate risk and ESG into decision-making processes

Whether you're working in banking, insurance or asset management, this book provides the tools and knowledge to deliver sustainable value and stay ahead in a changing finance landscape.

Themes include: green finance, ESG, net zero transition, TNFD, sustainable investment, financial regulation

About the authors

Simon Thompson is the Managing Director of the Global Capacity Building Coalition (GCBC). He was previously Chief Executive of the Chartered Banker Institute, and Founding Chair of the UK Government's Sustainable Finance Education Charter.

Simon Thompson

- Chapter - 00: Introduction;
- Chapter - 01: Dimensions of green and sustainable finance;
- Chapter - 02: Our changing world – the triple planetary crisis;
- Chapter - 03: Building a sustainable financial system – international, national and finance sector responses;
- Chapter - 04: Impact analysis – measuring and reporting environmental and social impacts;
- Chapter - 05: Risk management;
- Chapter - 06: Responsible retail, commercial and corporate banking;
- Chapter - 07: Green and sustainable bonds;
- Chapter - 08: Central and development banks;
- Chapter - 09: Responsible and sustainable investment;
- Chapter - 10: Insurance – impact underwriting;
- Chapter - 11: Green and sustainable digital finance;
- Chapter - 12: The future of green and sustainable finance;

Reviews

Dame Susan Rice DBE

The new edition of Green and Sustainable Finance spotlights the way biodiversity and social focus are now woven into effective green finance. It considers the host of new metrics, new measurement bodies, new financial products, and offers a nuanced lens on transition finance as well as on emerging risks. Green finance has matured in giant steps since the first edition of this book. Valuable then, this edition is compelling now.

Omar Shaikh, Co-Founder, Global Ethical Finance Initiative

Provides key contextual knowledge by clearly and concisely situating green and sustainable finance in reference to key sectors - from banking, insurance, bonds, equity funds, regulation et al - thus making this an essential read for all financial services practitioners and policy setters.

Elina Moscolin, Executive Vice President, Sustainability, Sage

The rapidly evolving nature of climate science, policies, regulations, reporting standards and initiatives make it difficult for professionals to keep up-to-date. This third edition is an invaluable compendium of information about green and sustainable finance. An essential book to bridge the skill gap in this space and help us to effectively respond to the climate crisis.

John K. Ashton PhD, FCBI, SFHEA, Professor of Financial Regulation, University of York

The revised Green & Sustainable Finance by Simon Thompson is an accessible and timely contribution to the literature. The text is case rich, international in approach, and contains many reflective exercises to enable and provoke discussion and reflection as to the major decisions confronting finance and financial institutions now and during the coming time of climate change.

Stuart Mackintosh, Executive Director, G30, and author of 'Climate Crisis Economics'

Simon Thompson has produced an outstanding and essential read for anyone in finance and banking who needs to better understand green and sustainable finance. The book helps the reader understand how to begin to align, embed, measure, and use green finance and grapple with making the green transition as individuals, firms, and communities. It is accessible, clear, well-constructed and addresses a myriad of complex issues while treating the reader with respect, without jargon. If you need to understand how to operationalise a firm's profitable pathway to net zero, you should buy this book and digest its lessons.

The new edition of Green and Sustainable Finance spotlights the way biodiversity and social focus are now woven into effective green finance. It considers the host of new metrics, new measurement bodies, new financial products, and offers a nuanced lens on transition finance as well as on emerging risks. Green finance has matured in giant steps since the first edition of this book. Valuable then, this edition is compelling now.
Dame Susan Rice DBE

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