Sustainable Financial Innovation

Innovations and consequently future-fitness must form new models and address existing hurdles and new forms of collaborations. They must enable faster innovation cycles and "intelligence mining" by combining open and closed source systems, organic communities, open space techniques and cross-fertilization. Innovations must apply to and integrate incubation and acceleration networks. This book explores new concepts for future-fitness with five capitals: financial, ecological, social/cultural, human/personal, and manufactured/technological. It offers a new integral framework bringing researchers and business leaders together in one volume.

The purpose of doing business is not business - it is flourishingDiego Hangartner PART 1: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT FINANCE Investment Turn Around – A new way of investing based on SDGs. Karen Wendt Innovation in the financing of energy efficiency: The Investors Confidence project Steve Fawkes Green bonds: For you to advertise only? A compact guide through the current state of the green bond market and the conditions for its further development Stefan Klotz & Sabine Pex Pensions in a time of climate change: The inconvenient truth about Fiduciary Duty Bethan Livesey Innovative 21st century water utilities Robert C. Brears PART 2: SOCIAL IMPACT INVESTING Social Impact Incentives (SIINC): Enabling high-impact social enterprises to improve profitability and reach scale Bjoern Struewer, Dr. Rory Tews & Christina Moehrle Social Impact Bond: Beyond financial innovation Rosella Carè Swiss Investments for Development: characteristics of a market with strong growth dynamics Julia Meyer & Kelly Hess PART 3: SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY Sitting at the Edge Looking for a Way to Create Scaled and Meaningful Impact Tanya Woods STRIDE, UnSchool for Entrepreneurs: From Doing well to doing good Anais Saegesser Triple Purpose: Social Capitalism: How capitalism can be transformed and make the world a better place Jim Bignal PART 4: REGIONAL FOCUS ESG IN CHINA Regulating CSR Disclosure: Quantity or Quality in Practice? Shidi Dong, Lei Xu & Ron McIver Political Connections, Ownership Structure and Performance in China’s Mining Sector Lei Xu, Ron P. McIver, Shiao-Lan Chou & Harjap Bassan Addressing corporate income tax avoidance in China: using regulatory change to encourage corporate tax sustainability Guodong Yuan, Ron P. McIver, Lei Xu & Sang Hong Kang

Karen Wendt is the editor of the Sustainable Finance Series with Springer Science and Business Media, a series dealing with new concepts in Economy, Leadership, Investment, Finance, Strategy, Management, Exponential Tech, and Behavior. Karen is also a serial entrepreneur. Her mission is to merge economy and business with purpose and passion to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (#SDGs) using Choice Architecture and applying Theories of Change. She combines investment, strategy, ideation and mediation knowledge with investment and finance as well as network and movement building skills. She pioneered in the creation of the Equator Principles, the Gold Standard in investment banking for achieving human rights assessments and respect in business, de-risking assets from extra-financial risks and crafting a more integral approach towards decision making, opportunity recognition and positive impact creation..