Chartered Banker #: Green and Sustainable Finance

Principles and Practice

Chartered Banker #: Green and Sustainable Finance
Simon Thompson
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3 Mar 2021 UK
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9781789664546
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More than 120 countries have committed to net zero targets by 2050, requiring systemic economic transitions on an unprecedented scale and with the finance sector playing a leading role. Green finance will power the transition, ensuring capital flows to the firms, investments, projects and technologies looking to create a sustainable, low-carbon world. To achieve net zero, every professional financial decision must take climate change and broader sustainability factors into account. Green and Sustainable Finance provides a comprehensive guide to the application of common green and sustainable principles and practices in banking, investment and insurance to help finance professionals embed these in their daily activities and decision-making. Focusing on the necessity of mainstreaming green and sustainable finance globally, this book includes a clear explanation of the science underpinning climate change. Green and Sustainable Finance covers a wide range of green finance products and services in retail, commercial and corporate banking, insurance, investment and fintech. It provides an overview of emerging regulation and international market frameworks and standards, particularly in relation to climate and environmental risk. Consideration is also given to the ethical dimensions of green and sustainable finance, including how professionals can promote market integrity and take active steps to avoid greenwashing. Endorsed by the Chartered Banker Institute as the core text for the benchmark Certificate in Green and Sustainable Finance, this book is essential reading for finance professionals and students, and individuals working to embed sustainability in business, policy and regulation.

Green and Sustainable Finance: Principles and Practice

"In 2017, I challenged Simon and the Chartered Banker Institute to create training programmes that would set the global benchmark for the knowledge and skills required by finance professionals leading the transition to net zero, emphasising the science content needed to understand fully the relationship between finance and climate-related risk. This he has done emphatically in what I believe is a world first in green finance education. I am very proud to see these published, and recommend them to colleagues worldwide who wish to develop and demonstrate their knowledge of the science behind, and the principles and practice of, green and sustainable finance. " * Sir Roger Gifford, Chair, Green Finance Institute * "Finance professionals reading this book will not only have the knowledge about green finance they need, but the understanding to put that knowledge to practical use. An essential read as the financial and corporate world finally put climate considerations front and centre. " * Dame Susan Rice DBE * "This is an excellent and very timely introduction to the important subject of green and sustainable finance and how financial institutions can truly become fit for purpose for financing the needs of society. We need every finance professional to develop their knowledge of the topics covered in this book, and apply them in their work, if we are to successfully transform finance and our economies to support a sustainable, low carbon future. " * Eric Usher, Head, UNEP Finance Initiative * "This progressive book provides a comprehensive review and explanation of the origin, content and rationale of the form, scale and scope of green finance and its implications internationally. By weaving together the theory, history, practice, significance and ramifications of green finance this contribution provides a solid foundation and introduction to this most important topic. " * John K. Ashton, Professor of Banking, Bangor University Business School * "I found this book incredibly comprehensive and yet very easy to read and navigate. The financial services sector will have to transform rapidly to respond to the climate crisis. Building the right skills and knowledge on this topic will be key to succeed so this is a recommended read not only for sustainability practitioners but all bankers. " * Elisa Moscolin, Head of Sustainability & ESG at Santander UK * "Over the next three decades, $3. 5 trillion needs to be invested annually in infrastructure to meet the climate challenge. Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of England has said the scale of that funding requirement means "we need to turn billions of public capital into trillions of private capital. " That calls out for exceptional standards of professionalism from financiers and others, and Simon Thompson' s book is an exemplary toolkit for board members and beginners alike in this, the greatest crisis and the greatest opportunity of our times. " * Simon Culhane, Chartered FCSI, CEO, Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment *
Simon Thompson is Chief Executive of the Chartered Banker Institute. He leads the UK' s Green Finance Education Charter initiative and is a former Vice President of the European Bank Training Network. Simon is a Fellow of the Chartered Banker Institute, a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and holds an MBA from the University of Edinburgh.
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ISBN-13: 9781789664546
Published: 3 Mar 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Kogan Page
Publisher: Kogan Page
Format: Paperback
Height: 230mm
Width: 155mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 730g
Pages: 480

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