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Designing a Sustainable Financial System

Development Goals and Socio-Ecological Responsibility

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Emphasizes the need to align financial systems with sustainable development goals
  • Contributes new research to multiple disciplines, including finance, management, and environmental studies
  • Adds critical voices to the ongoing discussion about socio-ecological responsibility

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Introduction

    • Thomas Walker, Stéfanie D. Kibsey, Rohan Crichton
    Pages 1-13
  3. System and Sector-Level Transitions Towards Sustainability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
    2. An Alternative Finance Approach for a More Sustainable Financial System

      • Rosella Carè, Annarita Trotta, Alessandro Rizzello
      Pages 17-63
    3. Social and Environmental Responsibility in the Banking Industry: A Focus on Commercial Business

      • Beatriz Fernández-Olit, Marta de la Cuesta-González, Francisco Pablo Holgado
      Pages 65-88
  4. Innovations in Best Practices, Tools, and Financial Products

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
    2. Designing Carbon-Neutral Investment Portfolios

      • Gianfranco Gianfrate
      Pages 151-171
    3. The Creation of Social Impact Credits: Funding for Social Profit Organizations

      • Marcel C. Minutolo, Chloe Mills, John Stakeley, Kayla Marie Robertson
      Pages 239-262
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 423-429

About this book

This edited collection brings together leading theoretical and applied research with the intent to design a sustainable global financial future. The contributors argue that our world cannot move toward sustainability, address climate change, reverse environmental degradation, and improve human well-being without aligning the financial system with sustainable development goals like those outlined by the United Nations. Such a system would: a) be environmentally and socially responsible; b) align with planetary boundaries; c) manage natural resources sustainably; d) avoid doing more harm than good; and e) be resilient and adaptable to changing conditions. The overarching theme in this collection of chapters is a response to the worldwide, supranational sustainable finance discussions about how we can transition to a new socio-ecological system where finance, human well-being, and planetary health are recognized as being highly intertwined.

Editors and Affiliations

  • David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Concordia University, John Molson School of Business, Montreal, Canada

    Thomas Walker, Stéfanie D. Kibsey, Rohan Crichton

About the editors

Thomas Walker is Full Professor in the Department of Finance, Associate Dean, Research and Research Programs, and Co-Director of the David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, Canada. Prior to his academic career, he worked in the German consulting and industrial sector at firms such as Mercedes Benz, Utility Consultants International, and Telenet.

Stéfanie D. Kibsey coordinates the Sustainable Investment Professional Certification program at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, Canada, and she previously worked at the David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise and La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. She specializes in connecting sustainability with finance.

Rohan Crichton is a faculty member at McGill University, Canada. He is also completing his Ph.D. in management at Concordia University, Canada. Rohan brings to both roles almost twenty years of work and consulting experience garnered from such organizations as, the United Nations, the Public Service of Canada, VSO International, and Bell Canada.

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Softcover Book USD 249.99
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