Download or read book Sustainable Investing and Environmental Markets written by Richard Sandor and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental asset classes are not a hope for tomorrow but a reality today. This new asset category promises to grow dramatically in the 21st Century as financial analysts, investors, and corporations around the world try to find ways to profit or reduce costs while promoting environmental social benefits. Sustainable Investing and Environmental Markets: Opportunities in a New Asset Class presents a groundbreaking new way to “do well and to do good”. With a combination of over 50 years of practical experience in the field of environmental finance, Richard Sandor, Nathan Clark, Murali Kanakasabai and Rafael Marques provide a solid preliminary understanding of the promising and transformational new investment category of environmental assets. Three broad asset classes — air and water; catastrophic and weather risk; and sustainability — are covered across 12 chapters which analyze how these environmental asset classes are currently being incorporated into commodities, fixed income, and equity instruments and what the future holds for the field. Contents:A Brief Survey of Environmental Asset ClassesMarket Failures and Policy ResponsesAcid Rain Pollutants as an Asset ClassGreenhouse Gas Pollutants as an Asset ClassEmerging Geographies for Greenhouse Gas Emissions MarketsForest Carbon as an Asset ClassClean Energy Markets and Associated Asset ClassesWater Markets and Associated Asset ClassesWater Quality Trading and Its Associated Asset ClassesSustainable Fisheries Management and Its Associated Asset ClassesWeather Risks and Associated Asset ClassesSustainability and Associated Asset ClassesConclusion: You Can Put a Price on Nature Readership: Readers interested in the environment as an asset class; investors, financial analysts, policymakers, undergraduates and postgraduates of finance and economics. Key Features:There is no equivalent book in the market right now that covers environment-financial issues from a practitioner's standpointThis book combines economic theory and practical experience — making it a valuable tool for anyone who is interested in the environment as an asset class (investors, analysts, policymakers, students of finance and economics)Keywords:Environment;Emissions;Trading;Finance;Derivatives;Water;Energy;Carbon;Catastrophe;Weather;Sustainability;Fisheries;Greenhouse Gases;Sulfur Dioxide;Acid Rain;Clean Energy MarketsReviews: “A “how-to” manual for using eco-markets to save the planet … laced with deep, important history and the foresight of the truest financial and environmental market pioneer, this book tells the tale of how, with leadership, we can change the world.” Commissioner Bart Chilton US Commodity Futures Trading Commission “With this book, Dr Richard Sandor and his colleagues help bridge a critical gap between academic theory and business practice. A must-read for students, investors, policymakers, and anyone interested on the worldwide opportunities for markets to tackle pressing issues such as climate and water. An important reference piece, written by someone who has helped shape the field of environmental finance as both an academic and practitioner.” Joseph P Kenendy II Founder, Chairman, and President of Citizens Energy Corporation and Member of the US House of Representatives for Massachusetts 8th District (1987–1999) “This is a great book. Every student should read it as a freshman. It is the handbook of how different innovative approaches accelerate the creation of a sustainable future for all of us. Nature has a monetary price, and Richard Sandor and his co-authors tell you in this book how price discovery leads to environmental protection.” Alexander J B Zehnder Nayang Technological University, Singapore Former President of ETH Zurich, and a father of the concept of the “2000 Watt Society”