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Green and Sustainable Finance offers a comprehensive guide to green and sustainable principles and practice in banking, investment and insurance.
List of contents
Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: Dimensions of green and sustainable finance; Chapter - 02: Our changing world - the triple planetary crisis; Chapter - 03: Building a sustainable financial system - international, national and finance sector responses; Chapter - 04: Impact analysis - measuring and reporting environmental and social impacts; Chapter - 05: Risk management; Chapter - 06: Responsible retail, commercial and corporate banking; Chapter - 07: Green and sustainable bonds; Chapter - 08: Central and development banks; Chapter - 09: Responsible and sustainable investment; Chapter - 10: Insurance - impact underwriting; Chapter - 11: Green and sustainable digital finance; Chapter - 12: The future of green and sustainable finance;
About the author
Simon Thompson is Managing Director of the Global Capacity Building Coalition (GCBC). Launched at COP 28, the GCBC is an unprecedented alliance of UN agencies, multilateral development banks, private finance and others encompassing more than 5,000 public and private financial institutions, 160 financial centres and exchanges and millions of finance professionals in almost every country in the world.
Simon was previously Chief Executive of the Chartered Banker Institute, the oldest professional body of bankers in the world with more than 35,000 members worldwide. He was the Founding Chair of the UK's Sustainable Finance Education Charter and a former Vice President of the European Bank Training Network. Simon is the author of Green & Sustainable Finance: Principles and Practice, published by Kogan Page.
Simon is a Fellow of the Chartered Banker Institute and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He was awarded Honorary Doctorates by Bangor University (2022) and BPP University (2015) for his contributions to banking, business and education.
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Green and Sustainable Finance offers a comprehensive guide to green and sustainable principles and practice in banking, investment and insurance.
