To meet the Paris climate goals, we need serious environmental and energy transitions. Financing those transitions will require both the financial and the public sector to transcend business-as-usual and take on new roles and structures in this system change. Current financial practice lacks the...

In the transition to a sustainable economy, companies are increasingly adopting the goal of long-term value creation, which integrates financial, social and environmental value. However, investors struggle to invest for long-term value creation and perform the social function of finance....

This case study offers a list of questions that allow analysts to integrate sustainability into investment analysis by connecting sustainability to business models, competitive position, strategy and value drivers. For illustrative purposes, the questions are answered for Royal Philips, an...

Finance is widely seen as an obstacle to a better world. Principles of Sustainable Finance explains how the financial sector can be mobilized to counter this and provides many examples and tools. Using finance as a means to achieve social goals we can divert the planet and its economy from its...

In the transition to a sustainable economy, companies are increasingly adopting the goal of In the transition to a sustainable economy, companies are increasingly adopting the goal of long-term value creation, which integrates financial, social and environmental value. That raises the...

The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of ambitious targets for making the world a better place. As the SDGs offer a path to value creation for both society and shareholders, they present both risks and opportunities for corporates and investors – and they'd better be prepared...