Schmidheiny, Stephan.

Financing Change : The Financial Community, Eco-Efficiency, and Sustainable Development. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (236 pages) - The MIT Press Series . - The MIT Press Series .

Financing Change -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- The World Business Council for Sustainable Development ( WBCSD) -- Executive Summary -- The Game -- Eco-efficiency and the Financial Markets -- Financial Markets and the Development Proces -- The Players -- The Company Leaders -- The Investors and Analysts -- The Bankers -- The Insurers -- The Accountants -- The Raters -- The Scorecard -- Appendix: Statement by Banks on the Environment and Sustainable Development -- Notes -- Glossary of Acronyms -- Selected Bibliography and Further Reading -- Index.

Largely descriptive rather than prescriptive, Financing Change is the first study to examine questions that will become increasingly important as populations burgeon and the developing countries enter financial markets.

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Financial services industry -- Environmental aspects.
Financial services industry -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Social responsibility of business.
Liability for environmental damages.
Sustainable development.
Economic development -- Environmental aspects.


Electronic books.

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