rafael l marques

Environmental asset classes are not a hope for tomorrow but a reality today. This new asset category promises to grow dramatically in the 21st Century as financial analysts, investors, and corporations around the world try to find ways to profit or reduce costs while promoting environmental social benefits. Sustainable Investing and Environmental Markets: Opportunities in a New Asset Class presents a groundbreaking new way to “do well and to do good”. With a combination of over 50 years of practical experience in the field of environmental finance, Richard Sandor, Nathan Clark, Murali Kanakasabai and Rafael Marques provide 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 which 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.

Contents:

• A Brief Survey of Environmental Asset Classes
• Market Failures and Policy Responses
• Acid Rain Pollutants as an Asset Class
• Greenhouse Gas Pollutants as an Asset Class
• Emerging Geographies for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Markets
• Forest Carbon as an Asset Class
• Clean Energy Markets and Associated Asset Classes
• Water Markets and Associated Asset Classes
• Water Quality Trading and Its Associated Asset Classes
• Sustainable Fisheries Management and Its Associated Asset Classes
• Weather Risks and Associated Asset Classes
• Sustainability and Associated Asset Classes
• Conclusion: You Can Put a Price on Nature

Readership: Readers interested in the environment as an asset class; investors, financial analysts, policymakers, undergraduates and postgraduates of finance and economics.
Key Features:

• There is no equivalent book in the market right now that covers environment-financial issues from a practitioner's standpoint
• This book combines economic theory and practical experience — making it a valuable tool for anyone who is interested in the environment as an asset class (investors, analysts, policymakers, students of finance and economics)