Financial and Technological Innovation for Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9781032264448 / Twarda / 2023 / 280 str.

Opis

Examines approaches to sustainability under the ongoing development of energy sustainability and the green finance initiatives. Unveils global heterogenous efforts in achieving ESG performance in light of climate change, global sustainability, and concerns over corporate “greenwashing”. 

Recenzje

"This book is an excellent account of how financial and technological innovation has become critical to sustainability transformation of the world undergoing the next phase of industrialization amidst geopolitical turmoil and other obstacles to global sustainable development", Professor Ann Fitz-Gerald, Director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.

"Under the global climate crisis, Financial and Technological Innovation for Sustainability is a timely publication contributed by professionals and scholars to address real-life issues and solutions from the public and private sectors beyond any boundaries of jurisdictions", Professor Walter Leal, Chairs of Climate Change Management at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), and Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK).

"This book is an essential resource for academics, professionals, and students around the world to examine interdisciplinary issues regarding ESG. With editors and contributors representing international leading scholars in the field, it offers a unique collection of contemporary global cases on the pertinence of financial and technological innovation to social and environmental sustainability", Professor A.K.T. Tsang, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Canada.

Spis treści

Section I Introduction 1. Exploiting financial and technological innovation for sustainability transformation Section II  Cases in America, Europe, and Africa 2. Emerging technological innovation of renewable energies through cleantech ventures: The complementary role of venture capital 3. Social bond as an innovative financial instrument for ESG initiatives: The case of Toronto 4. Sustainable development of solar power for the European transition to renewable energy: The case of the Czech Republic 5. Scaling renewable energy capacities for sustainability in Africa: Cases of innovative financing options Section III Cases in Asia Pacific 6. Sustainable finance to support climate action in Asia Pacific and Southeast Asia 7. Turning ESG agenda into action through new product development in Japan: The roles of sustainability management control system 8. Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives and development in Taiwan 9. Financing technological infrastructure and knowledge transfer for green innovation in the Greater Bay Area of China 10. Design and implementation of electric vehicle transport system: Cases of metropolises in Asia Pacific Section IV Conclusions 11. Prospects for global sustainability transformation: Political economy of an industrializing world

O autorze

Artie Ng is the inaugural Dean and a Professor of the International Business University based in Toronto and was a Senior Research Fellow with Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE). 

Jatin Nathwani is currently a Fellow and leads the Research Cluster 'STEM for Global Resilience' at the Balsillie Scholl for International Affairs (BSIA), and was the founding Executive Director of, Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) and the inaugural Ontario Research Chair in Public Policy for Sustainable Energy (2007-2020).