Designing a Sustainable Financial System

1. Introduction
Thomas Walker, Stéfanie D. Kibsey, Rohan Crichton

Part I. System and Sector-Level Transitions Towards Sustainability

2. An Alternative Finance Approach for a More Sustainable Financial System
Rosella Carè, Annarita Trotta, Alessandro Rizzello

3. Social and Environmental Responsibility in the Banking Industry: A Focus on Commercial Business
Beatriz Fernández-Olit, Marta Cuesta-González, Francisco Pablo Holgado

4. Seeking Greener Pastures: Exploring the Impact for Investors of ESG Integration in the Infrastructure Asset Class
Roy R. Sengupta, Tessa Hebb, Hakan Mustafa

5. Pricing Carbon: Integrating Promise, Practice and Lessons Learned from the Chicago Climate Exchange
Paula DiPerna

Part II. Innovations in Best Practices, Tools, and Financial Products

6. Designing Carbon-Neutral Investment Portfolios
Gianfranco Gianfrate

7. Sustainability Stress Testing the Financial System: Challenges and Approaches
Dieter Gramlich

8. Responsible Investment Requires a Proxy Voting System Responsive to Retail Investors
Ian Robertson

9. The Creation of Social Impact Credits: Funding for Social Profit Organizations
Marcel C. Minutolo, Chloe Mills, John Stakeley, Kayla Marie Robertson

10. Crowdfunding Sustainable Enterprises as a Form of Collective Action
Helen Toxopeus, Karen Maas

11. Palm Oil: Mitigating Material Financial Risks via Sustainability
Gabriel Thoumi

Part III. The Role of Regulation, Standards, and Policy

12. Toward a Theory of Sustainable Finance
Joakim Sandberg

13. Mobilizing Early-Stage Investments for an Innovation-Led Sustainability Transition
Friedemann Polzin, Mark Sanders, Ulrika Stavlöt

14. Financial Sector Sustainability Regulations and Voluntary Codes of Conduct: Do They Help to Create a More Sustainable Financial System?
Olaf Weber

15. Why Self-Commitment Is Not Enough: On a Regulated Minimum Standard for Ecologically and Socially Responsible Financial Products and Services
Andreas Oehler, Matthias Horn, Stefan Wendt

Keywords: Finance, Public Finance, Economic Systems, Environmental Economics