Full Description
This book deals with climate finance and presents a balance between the theoretical framework—as drawn by the most widely cited practitioner-oriented and academic journals in environmental management—and experimental finance. Does sustainability work eventually? This book explores the data from empirical analysis to address this question. The book investigates the effectiveness of Corporate Social Responsibility and its empirical verification by analyzing the correlation between firm-specific ESG characteristics and financial performance, and will be of interest to academics, researchers, and practitioners of sustainable finance and climate finance.
Contents
Part 1 - The ESG investing in the asset management industry.- Chapter 1 How and why Asset Managers use ESG.- Chapter 2 ESG rating: a fundamental driver for investing in the asset management industry.- Part 2 -Testing ESG strategies.- Chapter 3 Investors' standpoint: Developing climate finance-oriented Investment Strategies.- Chapter 4 ESG Investment strategies in action.- Part 3 - A focus on Investing in the three pillars of ESG.- Chapter 5 Pillar 1 - Environment Investment Theme.- Chapter 6 Pillar 2 - Social Investment Theme.- Chapter 7 Pillar 3 - Governance Investment Theme.
