Investment Reinvented - Sustainable Development Goals and the Investment Turnaround

This book provides empowering examples on how capital can pave the way toward an integrally sustainable future when guided by the equal integration of people, planet, and profit, paired with passion and purpose. The fact that more than 30 percent of all assets under managing are already invested with environmental, governance, and/or social criteria in mind indicates that we are passing the tipping point toward the implementation of both the UN SDG as well as COP21. In the face of the current geo-political crises and climate challenges, the implementation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations and of the Paris climate accord (COP21) signed in 2015 by 195 states have become an unavoidable must. Yet, investors, business people, politicians, economists, the civil society, and political leaders are daunted by the task at hand. This is the empowering response of holistically thinking impact investors, business leaders, and economists to the call to action formulated by 32 Club of Rome members in their book " Come on: Capitalism, Short-termism and the Destruction of the Planet ," the report to the Club of Rome published by Springer.

The book demonstrates through concrete investment case studies that it is not only possible but indeed financially profitable to merge fiduciary responsibility with in-depth considerations for the people and the planet. It combines contributions from practitioners and researchers in the field of sustainable finance, innovation, entrepreneurship, portfolio engineering, wealth management and transformational leadership. It offers valuable insights into redirecting capital toward integral sustainability across all asset classes while also de-risking assets and offering solutions that ensure the parity of profit, people and planet. The authors not only present new research and frameworks, they also engage in reinventing investment and finance in a practical manner. They show how a new commitment that anchors the UN SDG to the core of every business strategy can make it not only globally competitive but also profitable. The book addresses furthermore the highly important topic of transformational leadership in general with a new entrepreneurial mindset and in the financial industry in particular. The new leader must understand and leverage the antecedents, the cross cutting issues, as well as the behavioural aspects and incentives of sustainable finance. The new leader must understand and have the tools at hand to implement SDG economics. Therefore, this book also addresses concepts that have thus far not been connected to finance nor investment and include frameworks such as vertical development, integral theory, spiral dynamics, conscious capitalism, and their role in de-risking investments, enabling sustainable innovation, reinventing due diligence, but also in horizontal and vertical team development.

List of contents

1.Measurements/Metrics across all asses classes

2. Portfolio Engineering Reinvented: John Fullerton, intl. Club of Rome ,Hunter Lovins, intl. Club of Rome
Integral Model

4. Circular and Blue Economy

5. Reinventing Economics

6. Transformation & Leadership

7. Factor 5

8. Integral Leadership

9. Theories of Change

10. Matching SDG to Investments

12. The Woman Investor

13. The Exponential Investor & SDGs

About the author

Dr. Mariana Bozesan has more than 20 years experience in Venture Capital and Private Equity and is currently responsible for more than 20 portfolio companies. Her expertise includes investing in IT, biotech, medical devices, and clean-tech. She was an original investor in CyberNet, the first German Internet service provider and Entelios, the first German demand response aggregator. A serial entrepreneur turned investor, she has over 30 years of high-tech executive experience (Oracle and DEC, now Hewlett Packard) based in Silicon Valley, Paris and Munich. Dr. Bozesan is an international full member of the Club of Rome, and serves as an advisor to many governments including the German, Dutch, and the US State Department.
Karen Wendt has more than 20 years of experience in investment banking with UniCredit and co-created the first ESG and eco-social risk measurement and management standard in banking. She co-founded the Equator Principles and the Financial Institutions Association (EPFI Association), which deal with eco-social risks and impacts in banking. She introduced and implemented multi-stakeholder dialogue as an innovation tool within UniCredit and the EPFI Association, where she served as a Board Member, representing the Association in international committees activated by the Equator Principles like the OECD, World Bank and UNEP. She has published a series of articles and the bestseller “Responsible Investment Banking”. 
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (born 25 June 1939 in Zürich, Switzerland) is a German scientist and politician (SPD). He was a member of the German Bundestag and currently serves as co-president of the Club of Rome together with Anders Wijkman.  In 1981, he joined the United Nations in New York as director at the UN Center for Science and Technology. From 1984 to 1991 he headed the Institute for European Environmental Policy in Bonn. In 1991, Weizsäcker became founding president of the Wuppertal Institute, which soon established itself as a leading environmental think tank. A bestselling author in Germany, his English-language books include Earth Politics (1994), Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use (1995), Factor 5 (2009) and Limits to Privatization (2005).   

 


 

Summary

This book provides empowering examples on how capital can pave the way toward an integrally sustainable future when guided by the equal integration of people, planet, and profit, paired with passion and purpose. The fact that more than 30 percent of all assets under managing are already invested with environmental, governance, and/or social criteria in mind indicates that we are passing the tipping point toward the implementation of both the UN SDG as well as COP21. In the face of the current geo-political crises and climate challenges, the implementation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations and of the Paris climate accord (COP21) signed in 2015 by 195 states have become an unavoidable must. Yet, investors, business people, politicians, economists, the civil society, and political leaders are daunted by the task at hand. This is the empowering response of holistically thinking impact investors, business leaders, and economists to the call to action formulated by 32 Club of Rome members in their book “Come on: Capitalism, Short-termism and the Destruction of the Planet,” the report to the Club of Rome published by Springer. 
The book demonstrates through concrete investment case studies that it is not only possible but indeed financially profitable to merge fiduciary responsibility with in-depth considerations for the people and the planet. It combines contributions from practitioners and researchers in the field of sustainable finance, innovation, entrepreneurship, portfolio engineering, wealth management and transformational leadership. It offers valuable insights into redirecting capital toward integral sustainability across all asset classes while also de-risking assets and offering solutions that ensure the parity of profit, people and planet. The authors not only present new research and frameworks, they also engage in reinventing investment and finance in a practical manner. They show how a new commitment that anchors the UN SDG to the core of every business strategy can make it not only globally competitive but also profitable. The book addresses furthermore the highly important topic of transformational leadership in general with a new entrepreneurial mindset and in the financial industry in particular. The new leader must understand and leverage the antecedents, the cross cutting issues, as well as the behavioural aspects and incentives of sustainable finance. The new leader must understand and have the tools at hand to implement SDG economics. Therefore, this book also addresses concepts that have thus far not been connected to finance nor investment and include frameworks such as vertical development, integral theory, spiral dynamics, conscious capitalism, and their role in de-risking investments, enabling sustainable innovation, reinventing due diligence, but also in horizontal and vertical team development.

Product details

• Assisted by: Mariana Bozesan (Editor), Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (Editor), Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (Editor), Ernst U. von Weizsäcker (Editor), Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (Editor), Kare Wendt (Editor), Karen Wendt (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9783319697659
• ISBN: 978-3-31-969765-9
• Illustrations: 30 SW-Abb.
• Series: Sustainable Finance; Sustainable Finance
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy