Sustainability, technology, and finance: rethinking how markets integrate ESG

Table of Contents
1. Sustainable Finance and Technology: Making the Connection

Herman Bril, Georg Kell, and Andreas Rasche

Part I: ESG and Technology

2. History of Technology and Its Future in the Context of Human Development

Lars Jaeger

3. ESG—A Transformational Journey for Asset Management, Industries, Technology, and Society

Asoka Wöhrmann

4. How Can Corporate Leverage Tech and Sustainability through Collaboration? Digital with Purpose—Current Practices and Trends

Luis Neves

5. Decarbonization as a Chance

Herbert Diess

6. Ocean Technology as a Growing Space in Which to Reimagine Business: The Role of Start-Ups

Bjørn K. Haugland and Asgeir J. Sørensen

Part II: ESG as and through Technology

7. Mitigating the Risks and Nurturing the Opportunities: Data and Tech Vital in Tackling Companies' ESG Challenges

Nina Arquint and Andreas Berger

8. Resilience as an Analytical Filter for ESG Data

Ashby Monk and Dane Rook

9. Technology-Supported Investment Management

Eduard van Gelderen and David Ouellet

10. Finance, Sustainability, and Technology: Co-Evolution in Asset Owners’ Context

Winston Ma

11. A Digital Twin for Finance: Artificial Intelligence Supporting the Implementation of Environmental, Social, and Governance Targets

Christof Mascher

12. Efficiently Allocating Capital to Transition to a Sustainable Economy

Madelyn Antoncic

13. Assessing ESG from a Position of Wealth

Elias Ghanem

14. The Rise of ESG Data: A Tectonic Transparency Shift

Inna Amesheva

15. ESGT—Exponential Technology Requires Exponential Responsibility

Andrea Bonime-Blanc and Dante A. Disparte

16. Mastering Sustainability Requires Technology, Finance, and the Powers of Homo Deus

Herman Bril, Georg Kell, and Andreas Rasche

This book explores the swiftly emerging nexus between sustainability, finance, and technology.

Leading practitioners and academic thought leaders reflect on the ways in which technology and digitalization shape how sustainable finance professionals address environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. Together, the contributors identify three spheres in which technology shapes how investors make sense of such issues:

ESG and technology: finance professionals need to know about how technological innovations, such as chemical recycling for plastics, in the real economy shape firms’ ESG performance;
ESG through technology: technological developments, such as AI and blockchain, can enable finance professionals to offer more fine-grained ESG analyses; and
ESG as technology: the ESG agenda itself is influenced by technological developments that are not well understood by practitioners (e.g., data mining for Bitcoin creating significant emissions).
Using practically relevant examples and recent insights from people working in the field, the book explores the linkages between sustainability, technology, and finance in different contexts and shows how practitioners can accelerate needed change processes.

This book primarily addresses practitioners in companies and investment firms as well as students enrolled in executive education and MBA programs.