Sustainable Finance and Banking

Table of contents

1. Front Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Contents
5. List of Boxes, Figures and Tables
6. Foreword
7. Foreword
8. Acknowledgements
9. List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
10. 1 Introduction
    1. Trends
    2. Paradigm shift
    3. General structure of the book
    4. Structure by chapter
11. Part I Sustainability: A General Introduction
    1. 2 Environmental Consciousness and Sustainable Development
       1. Introduction
       2. Environmental issues
       3. Environmental consciousness
       4. Sustainable development
       5. Environmental policy
       6. Conclusion
    2. 3 Sustainability: The Challenges for Companies
       1. Introduction
       2. Corporate governance and sustainable development
       3. Sustainable business
       4. Accountability and reporting
       5. Conclusion
    3. 4 Sustainability: A Special Role for Banks
       1. Introduction
       2. Banks and their function in an economy
       3. The drive behind sustainability at banks
       4. Intermediation and sustainability
       5. Sustainable banking
       6. Conclusion
12. Part II Banking and Sustainability
    1. 5 Sustainability, Markets and Banking Products
       1. Introduction
       2. Sustainable investment funds
       3. Fiscal green funds
       4. New, more sustainable financial products: Committed resources
       5. New, more sustainable financial products: Investments
       6. Sustainability and advice from banks
       7. The financial sector and the Kyoto Protocol
       8. Conclusion
    2. 6 Sustainability and Financing Risks
       1. Introduction
       2. Environmental risks for clients
       3. Indirect environmental risks for banks
       4. Direct environmental risks for banks
       5. Risks to banks’ reputations
       6. Instruments for analysing environmental risk
       7. Conclusion
    3. 7 Internal Environmental Care
       1. Introduction
       2. Energy
       3. Waste
       4. Sustainable building
       5. Supply and distribution chain management
       6. Conclusion
    4. 8 Organization and Communication About Sustainability
       1. Introduction
       2. The organization of sustainability within banks
       3. The role of internal communication
       4. The role of external communication
       5. External accountability and the risks of external communication
       6. Conclusion
13. Part III In Reflection
    1. 9 Sustainable Banking in Perspective: The Cases of 34 International Banks
       1. Introduction
       2. Codes of conduct, environmental reporting and environmental management systems (EMSs)
       3. Environmental care in practice: Reported policy, objectives and data
       4. Environmental care in practice: Products and risk management
       5. Socioeconomic activities and sponsoring
       6. Integral score of sustainable banking
       7. Conclusion
    2. 10 Sustainable Development: A Paradigm Shift
       1. Introduction
       2. Are incremental steps sufficient?
       3. The existing economic system
       4. Are there shortcomings associated with the current economic paradigm?
       5. Sustainable development as a paradigm shift
       6. Sustainable development: Another way of seeing
    3. 11 Towards Sustainable Banking
       1. Introduction
       2. The trends: A summary
       3. A link to the future
       4. The role of banks in a sustainable future
       5. Conclusion
14. Appendices
    1. Appendix I Environmental Performances of Developed Countries
    2. Appendix II Sectoral Changes in the Pursuit of Sustainability: A Dutch Scenario
    3. Appendix III IFC Project Classification for Environmental Assessments
    4. Appendix IV Example of an Environmental Risk Checklist
    5. Appendix V The ICC Business Charter for Sustainable Development: Principles for Environmental Management
    6. Appendix VI UNEP Statement by Financial Institutions on the Environment and Sustainable Development
    7. Appendix VII List of Signatories to the UNEP Statement by Financial Institutions on the Environment and Sustainable Development
    8. Appendix VIII Overview of Characteristics of Selected Banks
    9. Appendix IX An Integral Score for Sustainable Banking
    10. Appendix X Ecological Economics
    11. Appendix XI Zero Growth and Other Solutions?
    12. Appendix XII The Prisoner’s Dilemma
15. Glossary
16. Notes
17. References
18. Index