Sustainable Investing and Environmental Markets
Sustainable Investing and Environmental Markets presents a groundbreaking new way to do well and to do good. It provides 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 that 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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: A Brief Survey of Environmental Asset Classes
Chapter 2: Market Failures and Policy Responses
Chapter 3: Acid Rain Pollutants as an Asset Class
Chapter 4: Greenhouse Gas Pollutants as an Asset Class
Chapter 5: Emerging Geographies for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Markets
Chapter 6: Forest Carbon as an Asset Class
Chapter 7: Clean Energy Markets and Associated Asset Classes
Chapter 8: Water Markets and Associated Asset Classes
Chapter 9: Water Quality Trading and Its Associated Asset Classes
Chapter 10: Sustainable Fisheries Management and Its Associated Asset Classes
Chapter 11: Weather Risks and Associated Asset Classes
Chapter 12: Sustainability and Associated Asset Classes
Chapter 13: Conclusion: You Can Put a Price on Nature