This Open Access book outlines ideas for a novel, scalable and, above all, sustainable financial system.We all know that today’s global markets are unsustainable and global governance is not effective enough. Given this situation, could one boost smart human coordination, sustainability and...

This paper studies the restrictions on consumption, portfolio choice, and social discounting implied by a sustainability constraint, that utility should not be expected to decline over time, in an economy with risky investment opportunities. The sustainability constraint does not distort...

This paper discusses sustainability accounting. Sustainability accounting is the contribution of accounting to sustainable development. Sustainability accounting has grown in importance in many countries. This paper highlights the motivation for sustainability accounting, the definition of...

The terms corporate social responsibility, ‘sustainability’, ‘sustainable development’ and ‘corporate sustainability’ are critical terms for developing, analysing and evaluating public and private policy goals. The terms are used in decision-making concerning investments in many...

This study investigates the effects of historical prevalence of infectious diseases on contemporary sustainable development. Previous studies reveal numerous proximate causes of sustainable development, but little is known about the fundamental determinants of this widespread economic concern....

Over the past few years, organic farming has seen a dynamic development globally. In 2015, the global market for organic products was €81.6 billion, rising to more than €90 billion in 2018 (Światowy rynek produktów ekologicznych osiągnął wartość 90 mld euro 2019). There has also been...

These lectures notes have been written for the course in Sustainable Finance given at the University of Paris-Saclay. The 725 slides cover the following topics: (1) the Market of ESG Investing, Ecosystem of Responsible Investing (2) ESG Scoring & Ratings, Performance of ESG Investing, ESG...

This paper formulates new theories of sustainable finance. The need for new theories of sustainable finance arises from the need to establish a set of propositions that can help us understand the behaviour and actions of economic agents towards sustainable finance. Six theories of sustainable...

Environmental disasters are thought to increase the focus on corporate sustainability in the communities where they occur. Extracting data on wildfires (a frequent type of disaster in the U.S.) and using ESG ratings and EPA air enforcement actions to construct measures of local corporate...

Sustainable Intensification (SI) offers a means to balance the environmental, economic, and social objectives of agriculture. Agricultural intensification may be defined as increasing output per unit input per unit time. A narrow definition of sustainable intensification is “production of more...