In Green and Sustainable Finance, Simon Thompson delivers a comprehensive guide for financial professionals to integrate climate and nature considerations into every decision. This fully updated third edition expands the focus beyond climate change to include biodiversity, pollution, and the work of new bodies such as the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). It also adds chapters on adaptation finance, transition finance, and transition planning.
Core Themes
- Holistic Sustainability: Moves from climate-only to a nature-positive framework, addressing interlinked planetary crises.
- Regulatory Evolution: Covers the latest in ISSB standards, TNFD guidance, and emerging global regulations.
- Practical Implementation: Offers tools for risk management, client engagement, and capital mobilisation toward low-carbon, nature-positive business models.
- Professional Development: Endorsed by the Chartered Banker Institute as the core text for its Certificate in Green and Sustainable Finance.
Expert Endorsements
“The new edition of Green and Sustainable Finance spotlights the way biodiversity and social focus are now woven into effective green finance. It considers the host of new metrics, new measurement bodies, new financial products, and offers a nuanced lens on transition finance as well as on emerging risks. Green finance has matured in giant steps since the first edition of this book. Valuable then, this edition is compelling now.”
— Dame Susan Rice DBE
“The rapidly evolving nature of climate science, policies, regulations, reporting standards and initiatives make it difficult for professionals to keep up-to-date. This third edition is an invaluable compendium of information about green and sustainable finance. An essential book to bridge the skill gap in this space and help us to effectively respond to the climate crisis.”
— Elina Moscolin, Executive Vice President, Sustainability, Sage
“Simon Thompson has produced an outstanding and essential read for anyone in finance and banking who needs to better understand green and sustainable finance. The book helps the reader understand how to begin to align, embed, measure, and use green finance and grapple with making the green transition as individuals, firms, and communities. It is accessible, clear, well-constructed and addresses a myriad of complex issues while treating the reader with respect, without jargon. If you need to understand how to operationalise a firm’s profitable pathway to net zero, you should buy this book and digest its lessons.”
— Stuart Mackintosh, Executive Director, G30, and author of Climate Crisis Economics
Green and Sustainable Finance is essential reading for finance professionals, students, and policymakers seeking to drive a just transition to net zero while ensuring regulatory compliance and capturing market opportunities.
