Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications - Couverture rigide

Simon, Diane-charlotte; Preker, Alexander S; Hulton, Susan C

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9811240914 ISBN 13 : 9789811240911

Editeur : World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2023

Synopsis

This book explores the business and investment implications of sustainability, both opportunities and challenges. The volume lays the groundwork for understanding the growing areas of sustainable business and sustainable finance. Over the past few decades, the world has witnessed significant improvements in economic development that meet a wide range of human needs. Ensuring that such development takes place in a "sustainable" way is the central focus of the book. The book provides insights for businesses, investors, and others on how to navigate this complex and evolving landscape.

The United Nations and global leaders in business and investment have emphasized the important role that the private sector can play in protecting the environment and promoting a more sustainable use of resources.

"What is needed now is a new era of economic growth ― growth that is at the same time socially and environmentally sustainable. This call for action in the Forward to the 1987 Bruntland Report (Our Common Future), which emphasizes that economic growth is part of the solution not the problem, still rings true nearly 40 years later.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Diane-Charlotte Simon is one of the three co-editors, a chapter author, and the lead technical expert of this volume. She is a finance professional committed to sustainability and energy transition. She has dedicated her career to the financing of business solutions fostering sustainability and addressing environmental issues such as climate change. Ms Simon has participated in transactions worth more than $10 billion dollars in the renewable energy sector. She has financed organizations of all sizes from start-ups to mature public companies with both equity investments (private equity and venture capital) and debt instruments under various structures and maturities.

Alexander S Preker is one of the co-editors and a chapter author of this volume. He is one of the Commissioners for the Global Commission on Pollution, Health, and Development. He is a globally recognized expert on financing, capital investment, private sector development, and market-based solutions to public policy challenges. Professor Preker is active as an early-stage investor and business development advisor. He is a Founding Member of the New York Chapter of the Keiretsu Forum, a Limited Liability Partner with the Keiretsu Capital Fund, an active investor with OurCrowd and other investment vehicles that focus on early-stage companies that have a high potential for impact including in the environmental sector. He is President and CEO of the Health Investment & Financing Corporation and a board member of several companies, including the USAHA which works closely with the US Department of Commerce and the Exon Bank. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the World Scientific Series on Health Investment and Financing and a reviewer of several journals.

Susan C Hulton is one of the co-editors and a chapter author of this volume. She is an international lawyer and legal consultant specializing in public international law. She has extensive experience advising governments, and a record of leadership and innovation as a senior manager in the United Nations, an international criminal tribunal, and an international nongovernmental organization. She is active in advocacy work in New York City and State in support of environmental justice, leading, for example, to the enactment of legislation establishing a moratorium on carbon-intensive cryptocurrency mining; and in human rights, in support of the International Rescue Committee, a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization. From 2001 to 2018, Ms Hulton served as a senior official with the United Nations Department of Political Affairs, advising chiefly on Security Council matters, preventive diplomacy, and peacemaking initiatives. She helped to establish an interagency rule of law unit, which recognized that the rule of law and human rights are imperative to achieving and sustaining peace. This was a precursor to the vision now set forth in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Goal 16 of which calls for "Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions". Ms Hulton also played a leading role, as co-editor and one of the authors of the Repertoire of the Practice of the Security Council, in bringing this important annual publication up-to-date and paving the way for a digital version. In 2008, she was seconded to serve on mission to Beirut, Lebanon, as Special Assistant to the Commissioner of the United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission, investigating the assassination of a former Prime Minister of Lebanon. From 2009 to 2018, she served as Special Assistant and Acting Chief of Staff to the Prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), based in The Hague, the first tribunal of international character to prosecute terrorist offenses.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9811240914
• ISBN 13: 9789811240911
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 648
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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