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.
Author(s): Herman Bril, Georg Kell, Andreas Rasche
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 348
City: London
Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
List of Abbreviations
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
Index
