Extinction Governance, Finance and Accounting

Implementing a Species Protection Action Plan for the Financial Markets
Herausgeber: Atkins, Jill; Macpherson, Martina

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Produktbeschreibung

The planet is currently experiencing a mass extinction event, with human and business activity being the root cause of species loss and habitat destruction. Industries, companies, banks, investors, accountants and auditors have all played their role. This book explores how they can also provide a solution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 610
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1025g
• ISBN-13: 9780367492977
• ISBN-10: 0367492970
• Artikelnr.: 62951916

Autorenporträt

Jill Atkins holds a Chair in Financial Management at Sheffield University Management School, UK, and is a visiting professor of Accounting at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Martina Macpherson is Head of ESG Strategy and GMC Member at ODDO BHF Asset Management, President of NSFM NextGen and Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Why Are Species Extinction and Biodiversity Collapse Relevant
to the Financial Markets, Accounting and Governance?; Part I Defining
Extinction Governance, Extinction Accounting and Extinction Finance 1
Extinction Accounting, Finance and Engagement: Implementing a Species
Protection Action Plan for the Financial Markets; 2 Extinction Governance:
Establishing a Framework for Extinction Accounting, Accountability and
Finance; Part II The Urgent State of Nature: Addressing Extinction and
Biodiversity Decline 3 Business, Extinction and the Future of Species:
Moving from Good Intention to Action against Species Extinction; 4 Business
for Nature: How Businesses Can Save Species and Preserve Biodiversity; 5
Heal Rewilding: A Landowning Model for Species Recovery; 6 Oil Palm
Industry and Biodiversity Loss: Enhancing Governance through the
Sustainability Policy Transparency Toolkit (SPOTT); 7 Cultural and
Religious Aspects of Extinction Governance in the Middle East: Accounting
for Camels in the Israeli Context; 8 Middle Eastern Extinctions: Building a
Religious Motivation for Species Protection; 9 The Need for Good Governance
in Securing Environmental Justice; 10 A Regenerative Approach to
Biodiversity and Species Extinction Accounting; Part III Extinction
Finance: How Financial Market Mechanisms Can Save Species 11 'Extinction
Bonds' Addressing Biodiversity Issues through Sustainable Finance; 12 From
Active to Passive: Establishing a Framework for a Biodiversity Index
Solution; 13 Biodiversity and Sustainability Ratings: From Data to
Assessments; 14 Assessing Financial Exposure to Biodiversity Risks through
Corporate Facility Mapping; 15 How to Improve Biodiversity-Related
Information; 16 Green Bonds from an Integrated Thinking Perspective; 17 The
Wildlife Conservation Bond: Exploring New Market Mechanisms for Protecting
Endangered Species; 18 Exploring a Mechanism with Emancipatory Potential
for 'Business and Biodiversity' in China: 'Ant Forest'; 19 The Investors'
Policy Dialogue on Deforestation (IPDD) Case Study: A Collaborative
Engagement Initiative with Governments to Mitigate Investment Impacts
Resulting from Deforestation; 20 Ending Extinction: Taking Action to
Transform the Financial System; 21 Extinction Accounting and Finance in
Italy: The Case of Fineco Bank; Part IV Extinction Engagement: How
Investors Can Save Species 22 The Global Asset Management Industry's
Response to the Biodiversity Crisis; 23 Engaging to Protect and Restore
Biodiversity; 24 Biodiversity Loss and Its Impact: A Practical
Implementation in Portfolio Construction; 25 Addressing the Ecological
Transition through Environmental, Social and Governance Investing Powered
by Artificial Intelligence and Fintech; 26 Revealing Plato's 'Shadow
Kingdom': Rendering Pandemic Risk Explicit in Extinction Engagement; Part V
Extinction Accounting: How Accounting Can Save Species 27 The Impact of the
Natural Capital and Biodiversity Crises on the Corporate and Investment
Value Chain; 28 The Biodiversity Disclosure Project: From Business
Mainstreaming Guidelines, the Biodiversity Performance Rating of Listed
Companies to the Biological Diversity Protocol; 29 Research Methods: The
Role of Ecolinguistic Analysis in Species Protection - A Toolkit for
Practitioners and Academics; Part VI Reflections and Conclusion:
Establishing a Framework for Action 30 Extinction, Biodiversity Loss and
COVID-19: Searching for Meaning; 31 Hope for the Future: A CREATIIIVE
Approach to Extinction Governance, Accounting and Finance