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General information
What is ESG? @ ADEC Innovations
Impact investing vs. venture philanthropy
Guide to Socially Responsible Investment (SRI)
S&P Global’s Corporate Sustainability Assessment
Sustainable Investments @ University of California
· “…the leading database and research engine for ESG & Carbon reporting, monitoring and controlling.“
News & periodicals
· "...an online news and analysis service established in 1999 to report on sustainable investment,
green finance and the people and companies active in environmental markets."
Journal of Environmental Investing
Banking
Banking @ UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEPFI)
Principles of Responsible Banking
Environmental trust funds
· A type of grant that works with both public sector and private sector
General background on ETFs @ UNDP
Background with applications to REDD+
Events
Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing
Institutions ~ International organizations & initiatives
Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Global Impact Investing Ratings System
· GIIRS fund ratings @ B Lab / B Analytics / B Impact Assessment
· GIIRS page @ New Media Group
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
FIRST for Sustainability @ IFC
· FIRST = Financial Institutions: Resurces, Solutions and Tools
International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)
Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS)
UNDP Global Environmental Finance (UNDP-GEF) Unit
· "...partners with environmental vertical funds to support countries with simultaneous eradication
of poverty and significant reduction of inequalities and exclusion, by catalyzing environmental
finance for sustainable development.”
UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEPFI)
Institutions ~ Networks, alliances & initiatives
Cambridge, University of
Judge Business School
Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Cambridge Alternative Finance Collaboration Network
Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (CCRI)
· An open-membership, global professional association for experts in conservation finance with
the mission "to promote awareness, expertise and innovation in conservation finance globally."
CFA uses working groups, task forces and online webinars to research and educate in
conservation finance.
Global Sustainable Investment Alliance
· US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment
Green Growth Knowledge Partnership
Green Finance Measures Database
Sustainable Finance Policy Effectiveness Working Group
Global Reporting lnitiative (GRI)
GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards
Intentional Endowments Network (IEN)
· "...the world’s leading proponent of responsible investment. It works to understand the investment
implications of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and to support its international
network of investor signatories in incorporating these factors into their investment and ownership
decisions."
Responsible Asset Allocator Initiative (RAAI)
Institutions ~ NGOs
Alliance for Environmental Markets and Investments (AEMI)
Center for Social and Sustainable Products
E2: Environmental Entrepreneurs
Global Reporting lnitiative (GRI)
International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC)
· Root Capital is a social investment organisation that provides low-interest loans to rural farmers in
developing countries in an effort to help them grow by connecting them to the formal economy. In
exchange farmers provide data about their crops to ensure that they have sustainable growing practices.
Social Capital Markets (SOCAP)
Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
· “SASB Standards guide the disclosure of financially material sustainability information by companies
to their investors. Available for 77 industries, the Standards identify the subset of environmental, social,
and governance (ESG) issues most relevant to financial performance in each industry.”
Institutions ~ Firms & professional services
· A very incomplete listing, and listing here entails no endorsement!
Blue like and Orange Sustainable Capital
B Lab / B Analytics / B Impact Assessment
Calvert Research and Management
· Climate Change & Sustainability Services
Fossil Free Indexes
Generation Investment Management
Governance & Accountability Institute
Select readings in environmental & conservation finance
Clark, Story. 2007. A Field Guide to Conservation Finance. Washington, DC: Island Press.
Daily, Gretchen C., and Katherine Ellison. 2002. The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make
Conservation Profitable. Washington, DC: Island Press.
Ginn, William. 2005. Investing in Nature: Case Studies of Land Conservation in Collaboration with
Business. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Island Press.
Hamrick, Kelley. 2016. State of Private Investment in Conservation 2016: A Landscape Assessment of an
Emerging Market. Washington, DC: Ecosystem Marketplace.
http://www.forest-trends.org/documents/files/doc_5474.pdf#
Hopper, Kim, and Ernest Cook. 2004. Conservation Finance Handbook: How Communities are Paying
for Parks and Land Conservation. California: Trust for Public Land.
Huwyler, Fabian, Jürg Käppeli, and John Tobin. 2016. Conservation Finance: From Niche to Mainstream:
The Building of an Institutional Asset Class. New York: Credit Suisse. Link.
Huwyler, Fabian, Jürg Käppeli, Katharina Serafimova, Eric Swanson, and John Tobin. 2014. Conservation
Finance: Moving beyond Donor Funding toward an Investor-Driven Approach. New York: Credit Suisse.
Link.
Levitt, James N., ed. 2005. From Walden to Wall Street: Frontiers of Conservation Finance. Massachusetts:
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Levitt, James N., ed. 2010. Conservation Capital in the Americas: Exemplary Conservation Finance
Initiatives. Massachusetts: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Martin, Claude. 2015. On the Edge: The State and Fate of the World's Tropical Rainforests (Report to the
Club of Rome). California: Greystone Books.
McFarland, Brian. 2018. Conservation of Tropical Rainforests: A Review of Financial and Strategic
Solutions. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319632353
McFarland, Brian. 2021. Conservation of Tropical Coral Reefs: A Review of Financial and Strategic
Solutions. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030570118
McQueen, Mike, and Ed McMahon. 2003. Land Conservation Financing. Washington, DC: Island Press.
The Nature Conservancy and EKO Asset Management Partners. 2014. Investing in Conservation: A
Landscape Assessment of an Emerging Market. Virginia: The Nature Conservancy. Link.
World Wildlife Fund. 2009. Guide to Conservation Finance: Sustainable Financing for the Planet.
Washington, DC: World Wildlife Fund. Link.
Qirui Zhang of Brandeis University developed this page in 2019.
Environmental finance, shareholder advocacy, ESG & SRI
ESG ~ Environmental, Social & Governance
SRI ~ Socially Responsible Investing
This page encompasses a wide range of financial tools and resources, including coverage
of green fiscal policy, green finance, conservation finance, and impact investing.
Contents of this page:
· General information
· Banking
· Events
· Institutions:
~ International organizations & initiatives
~ Networks, alliances & initiatives
~ NGOs
~ Firms & professional services
· Select readings in environmental & conservation finance
Also see:
· Environmental funding & grantmaking page
· Environmental certification, reporting & ecolabelling page
· Climate change finance page
· Conservation finance page
