This book compiles and explains technical terms in sustainable finance in an easy-to-navigate A-Z format.
The interdisciplinary nature of sustainable finance means that those researching and working in the field often have to turn to a variety of different sources to look up various non-financial terms. Recognizing this issue, Ibrahim Sancak and Elisa Aracil have curated a comprehensive list of the key terms most commonly used in the field. Each entry maps out an important concept or idea and illustrates how it relates more broadly across this growing discipline, such as the changes and innovations required by the financial sector to meet the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Overall, Essential Concepts of Sustainable Finance will enable readers to communicate more effectively about finance within the context of sustainability.
With related terms and further reading included alongside the entries, this innovative and accessible volume will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners alike.
Author(s): Elisa Aracil, Ibrahim Sancak
Series: A-Z Guides for Environment and Sustainability
Publisher: Routledge/Earthscan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 286
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Sustainable Finance: A Multidimensional and Multi-actor Framework
Visual Codes of Sustainable Finance Concepts
A
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Active Engagement
Active Ownership
Active Voting
Anthropogenic Climate Change
Anthropogenic Emission
B
Baseline and Credit Mechanism
Best-in-Class Screening
Best-in-Universe Screening
Biocapacity
Biodiversity
Biodiversity Finance
Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII)
Biodiversity Loss
Biosphere Integrity
Blended Finance
Blue Bonds
Blue Economy
Blue Finance
Brown Economy
Brown Taxonomy
Brundtland Report
Business Sustainability
Business-as-Usual
C
Cap and Trade System
Carbon Allowance
Carbon Bubble
Carbon Credit
Carbon Dioxide (CO[sub(2)])
Carbon (Dioxide) Capture
Carbon (Dioxide) Capture and Storage (CCS)
Carbon (Dioxide) Capture & Utilization (CCU)
Carbon Dioxide Equivalent ( CO2e)
Carbon Emission
Carbon Emission Permit
Carbon Finance
Carbon Footprint
Carbon Leakage
Carbon Markets
Carbon Neutrality
Carbon Offsetting
Carbon Price
Carbon Removal / Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
Carbon Sequestration
Carbon Sink
Carbon Taxation
Chief Sustainability Officer
Circular Economy
Climate
Climate Change
Climate Change Adaptation
Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Crisis
Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB)
Climate Finance
Climate Neutrality
Climate Stress Test / Testing
Climate-related Risk (CrR)
Common Good Value
Community Investing
Conference of the Parties (COP)
Corporate Citizenship
Corporate Engagement
Corporate Governance
Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Sustainability
D
Decarbonization
Development Finance
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Double Materiality
Doughnut Economics
Dynamic Materiality
E
Earth Overshoot Day
Earth System
Ecological Footprint
Ecosystem Services
Emission Allowance
Emission Trading
Emissions Trading System
Enlightened Shareholder Value (ESV)
Environmental Capital
Environmental Economics
Environmental Externalities
Environmental Factors (E of ESG)
Environmental Finance
Environmental Footprint
Environmental Kuznets Curve
Environmental Risk
Environmental Taxonomy
Environmental, Social, and Governance Factors/ ESG Factors/ ESG Criteria
Equator Principles
ESG Analysis
ESG Engagement
ESG Fund
ESG Incorporation
ESG Integration
ESG Investing/ Investment
ESG Rating
ESG Reporting
ESG Risks
ESG Voting
Ethical Investment / Ethical Investing
EU Taxonomy for Sustainability
Exclusionary Investing
Exclusionary Screening
Externalities
F
Finance-as-Usual
Financial Inclusion
Financial Materiality
Fossil Fuel
G
Global Reporting Initiative
Global Warming
Global Warming Potential (GWP)
Governance Factors (G of ESG)
Green Asset Ratio (GAR)
Green Assets
Green Bond Principles
Green Bonds
Green Company
Green Economy
Green Equities
Green Finance
Green Fintech Taxonomy (Green Fintech Classification)
Green Growth
Green Investment
Green Lease, Green Leasing
Green Loan
Green Loan Principles
Green Mortgage
Green Premium
Green Project
Green Taxonomy
Green Water
Greenhouse Effect
Greenhouse Gas Emission (GHG Emission)
Greenhouse Gas Neutrality
Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol)
Greenhouse Gases (GHGs)
Greenium
Greenwashing, Greenwash
I
Impact Finance
Impact Investing
Impact Lending
Impact Loan
Impact Materiality
Impact Measurement and Management
Inclusionary Investing
Inside-out Perspective
Integrated Report
Integrated Reporting
Integrated Thinking
Integrated Value
Integrated Value Creation (IVC)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Internalization
International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC)
International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)
K
Katowice Climate Package
Keeling Curve
Kyoto Protocol
L
Land Degradation
Land Degradation Neutrality
Land-system Change
Land-use Change
Life Cycle Assessment
Linear Consumption
Linear Production
Linear Economy
Long-term Value Creation (LTVC)
M
Materiality
Microcredit
Microfinance
Microinsurance
Microloan
Millennium Development Goals
Montreal Protocol
N
Nationally Determined Contributions
Natural Capital
Natural Resource
Negative Emission
Negative Externalities
Negative Screening
Net Zero Economy
Net Zero Emission
Non-Financial Information
Non-Financial Reporting
Norms-based Screening
O
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
Outside-in Perspective
P
Paris Agreement
Parts per Million (ppm)
Physical Risk
Pieconomics
Pigouvian Tax
Planetary Boundaries
Planetary Boundaries Framework
Porter Hypothesis
Positive Externalities
Positive Screening
Principles for Responsible Banking
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)
Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI)
R
Race to Zero
Renewable Energy
Responsible Consumption
Responsible Investment
S
SASB Standards
Scope 1 GHG Emissions
Scope 2 GHG Emissions
Scope 3 GHG Emissions
Shareholder Action
Shareholder Activism
Shareholder Primacy
Shareholder Value
Short-Termism
Sin Company
Sin Stock
Social Bank
Social Bonds
Social Externalities
Social Factors (S of ESG)
Social Finance
Social Taxonomy
Socially Responsible Investment (SRI)
Stakeholder Capitalism
Stewardship
Stranded Asset
Sustainability
Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
Sustainability Disclosure
Sustainability Index
Sustainability Linked Loans
Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles
Sustainability Rankings
Sustainability Rating Providers
Sustainability Ratings
Sustainability Reporting
Sustainability Risks
Sustainability Science
Sustainability Score
Sustainability Taxonomy
Sustainability Transformation
Sustainability Transition
Sustainability-themed Investing
Sustainable Business Model
Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Sustainable Digital Finance
Sustainable Finance
Sustainable Finance Forms
Sustainable Finance Literacy
Sustainable Finance Stages
Sustainable Finance Taxonomy
Sustainable Finance Technology (SuFTech)
Sustainable Insurance
Sustainable Investing, Sustainable Investment, Sustainability Investment (SI)
Sustainable Investment Fund
Sustainable Investment Strategies
Sustainable Lending
T
Taxonomy
Thematic Investing
Tradable Emission Permit
Tradable Emission Right
Transition Finance
Transition Management
Transition Risk
Triple Bottom Line
Twin Transformation
U
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
United Nations Global Compact
United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights
V
Value Reporting Foundation
Values- based Banking
Appendix – List of International Organizations in Sustainable Finance
Notes on Contributors
